Althea A. Turner

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Gray, Wayne D., John, Bonnie E., Nardi, Bonnie A., Petre, Marion, Spohrer, James C. and Turner, Althea A. (1993): End-User Programming. In: Cook, Curtis, Scholtz, Jean and Spohrer, James C. (eds.) Empirical Studies of Programmers - Fifth Workshop December 3-15, 1993, 1993, Palo Alto, California. pp. 1-2.

End-user programming involves the end user building new tools, not simply using an application. Hence, word processing is not an example of end-user programming while building style sheets for a word processor would be. Using communication software is not, writing a script for the communication software is. Using someone else's spreadsheet is not, building your own spreadsheet is. Using someone else's HyperCard stack is not, building your own is. Running someone else's cognitive model is not, building a cognitive model that fits your theory is. This definition includes both specialized software for experts (for example, Edmonds, O'Brien, & Bayley, 1993), semi-domain specialized software such as spreadsheets, as well as intendedly general purpose (but specialized anyway) software such as HyperCard. The two defining characteristics are: building software tools (what the end-user programming language, EPL, is used for) and characteristics of the user (whose main interest is in building a tool for which they, among possible others, will be a user). Hence, LISP could be considered an EPL for C programmers who use EMACS.

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Publication period:1993-1993
Publication count:1
Number of co-authors:5



Productive colleagues

Althea A. Turner's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Bonnie A. Nardi:52
Bonnie E. John:51
Wayne D. Gray:33


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

James C. Spohrer:1
Marion Petre:1
Bonnie A. Nardi:1

 

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The computer can be thought of from the perspective of its technology [...] from the field of computer science. Or it can be thought of as a social tool, a structure that will change social interaction and social policy, for better or for worse. It can be thought of as a personal assistant, where the goals and intentions of the user become of primary concern. It can be viewed from the experience of the user, a view that changes considerably with the task, the person, the design of the system. The filed of human-computer interaction needs all these views, all these issues, and more besides.

-- Stephen Draper and Donald Norman. In "User Centered System Design" (1986) p. 1

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