Below is our current working plan for PPIG 2023. Some things might change slightly, but not significantly, and some things are still being confirmed and will be updated as soon as possible. Any questions, please get in touch at emma.soderberg@cs.lth.se. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Here is the live schedule, or if you use Google you can add the PPIG 2023 schedule to your calendar here.
Note: All times are in CEST (UTC+2, Sweden’s timezone)
Monday, 21st August
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Doctoral Consortium (invite-only meeting) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Fika & registration |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | In-person Demos & music Bring your own instrument, cool tool or prototype! |
| 16:00 - 18:30 | Hybrid Presentation session |
| Keynote: Socio-Technical Smells: How Technical Problems Cause Organizational Friction Adam Tornhill, CodeScene |
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| A brief history of the human centric study of programming languages Luke Church and Alan Blackwell |
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| Overcoming the Mental Set Effect in Programming Problem Solving Agnia Sergeyuk, Sergey Titov, Yaroslav Golubev and Timofey Bryksin |
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| Automatic, Suggestive Feedback in Algorithm Visualisation Exercises Artturi Tilanterä |
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| 19:00 - onwards | In-person Vattenhallen & PPIG Dinner |
Tuesday, 22nd August
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Fika & registration |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | In-person Visit to the Lund University Humanities Lab |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | In-person Hands-on activities, details TBC |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Hybrid Presentations session |
| Keynote: Bots in Software Engineering and their impact on development Linda Erlenhov, Chalmers University of Technology |
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| How A Data Structure’s Linearity Affects Programming and Code Comprehension: The Case of Recursion vs. Iteration Aviad Baron and Dror Feitelson |
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| Exploring cognitive waste and cognitive load in software development - a grounded theory Daniel Helgesson |
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| Directions in Computational Music Ian Clester |
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| 18:30 - onwards | In-person Museum of Sketches & dinner (optional) |
Wednesday, 23rd August
PPIG @ AI Lund: Fika-to-Fika Workshop
This is a workshop in collaboration with AI Lund. For further details, please see ai.lu.se.
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Fika & registration |
| 10:00 - 12:15 | Hybrid Morning session |
| Keynote: Large Language Models and the Psychology of Programming Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder |
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| Interactive session - collaboratively build something creative with LLMs! | |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 15:30 | Hybrid Afternoon session |
| Interactive Narrative Visualization for Learning Markov Decision Process B. Mbuu Mutua and Alan F. Blackwell |
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| Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Rob Deline, Andrew D. Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams and Benjamin Zorn |
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| Prompt Programming for Large Language Models via Mixed Initiative Interaction in a GUI Tanya Morris and Alan Blackwell |
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| Back to the future: What do historical perspectives on programming language research tell us about LLMs? Tao Dong and Luke Church |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Fika & mingle |
Thursday, 24th August
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Online Presentations session |
| How Developers Extract Functions: An Experiment Alexey Braver and Dror Feitelson |
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| Pronto: Prototyping a Prototyping Tool for Game Mechanic Prototyping Eva Krebs, Tom Beckmann, Leonard Geier, Stefan Ramson and Robert Hirschfeld |
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| Integrating Traditional CS Class Activities with Computing for Social Good, Ethics, and Communication and Leadership Skills Renato Cortinovis, Devender Goyal and Luiz Fernando Capretz |
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| User-Centric Study and Enhancement of Python Static Code Analysers Steven Chen, Emma Söderberg and Alan McCabe |
Friday, 25th August
| 16:00 - 17:45 | Online Presentations session |
| Parallel Program Comprehension: A Mental Model Approach Leah Bidlake, Eric Aubanel and Daniel Voyer |
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| Influencing Code Reading Through Beacons: an Eye-Tracking Study Alan McCabe, Diederick C. Niehorster and Emma Söderberg |
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| Towards a definition of the concept of logic of an algorithm Federico Gómez Frois and Sylvia da Rosa |
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| 17:45 - 18:00 | online PPIG Prizes and conference close |