Wednesday, 28 August
| 09:30 - 13:30 | Doctoral Consortium |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Registration with nibbles |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | PPIG Open and Welcome |
| 14:15 - 15:30 | Collaborative Keynote |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | SESSION 1 |
| Coding to Learn and Create: New Modes of Programming for Learners Who Have Been Left Out Colin Clark, Clayton Lewis, Simon Bates and Sepideh Shahi |
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| Beyond a Faster Horse: the UX of a Paperless Biochemistry Laboratory Christopher Martin, Kate Kilgour & Angus Lamond |
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| 19:00 | PPIG Dinner at The Earl of Pitt Street Address: 70 Pitt St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5ST |
Thursday, 29 August
| 10:00 - 11:00 | SESSION 2 |
| Software design as multiple contrasting dialogues Marian Petre, André van der Hoek & David Bowers |
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| Undergraduate students’ learning approaches & learning to program Melanie Coles & Keith Phalp |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | SESSION 3 |
| Parlez-vous Java? Bonjour La Monde != Hello World: Barriers to Programming Language Acquisition for Non-Native English Speakers Brett Becker |
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| Usability of Probabilistic Programming Languages Alan Blackwell, Luke Church, Tobias Kohn, Martin Erwig, James Geddes, Andy Gordon, Maria Gorinova, Atılım Güneş Baydin, Bradley Gram-Hansen, Neil Lawrence, Vikash Mansinghka, Brooks Paige, Tomas Petricek, Diana Robinson, Advait Sarkar & Oliver Strickson |
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| Towards a Consensus about Computational Thinking Skills: Identifying Agreed Dimensions Bostjan Bubnic & Tomaz Kosar |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | SESSION 4 |
| Toward meaningful algorithmic music-making for non-programmers Matt Bellingham, Simon Holland & Paul Mulholland |
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| Winter is Coding: On Programming, the freeze response, and how design can help Michael Nagle |
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| The Naturalist’s Friend - A case study and blueprint for pluralist data tools and infrastructure Antranig Basman |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Panel Discussion |
| Evaluating Programming Systems Design Jonathan Edwards, Stephen Kell & Tomas Petricek, Luke Church |
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| 17:30 onwards | Sightseeing: walk through the city and along the quayside, followed by dinner |
Friday, 30 August
| 9:30 - 10:30 | SESSION 5 - Doctoral Consortium short talks |
| Clinical Decision Support System Design with Probabilistic Programming Languages Diana Robinson |
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| Open Piping: a Visual Workflow Environment Charles Boisvert |
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| Constructing a Model of Expert Parallel Programmers’ Mental Representations Formed During Parallel Program Comprehension Leah Bidlake |
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| Challenging users’ perceptions of decision boundaries in machine learning systems Rob Bowman |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | MINI TALKS |
| Nocell: Probabilistic programming for spreadsheet experts Oliver Strickland |
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| Programmable graphics editors for data visualisation Mariana Mărăşoiu |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | SESSION 6 |
| Probes and Sensors: The Design of Feedback Loops for Usability Improvements Luke Church & Emma Soderberg |
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| Cognitive Dimensions of Modular Noise Improvisation James Noble |
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| Mapping the Landscape of Literate Computing Bjarke Vognstrup Fog & Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | KEYNOTE |
| Ben du Boulay | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | PPIG Games |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | PPIG Close |