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Smith, David Canfield, Cypher, Allen and Tesler, Larry (2001): Novice programming comes of age. In: Lieberman, Henry "Your Wish Is My Command: Programming by Example". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers pp. 7-19

Stagecast Creator combines programming by demonstration and visual before-after rules to enable most eight year old children, and all ten year olds, to create their own interactive stories, games and simulations. In the process, they learn and apply the key concepts of computer programming without using a programming language.

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Smith, David Canfield (2000): Deep issues: building personal tools by programming. In Communications of the ACM, 43 (8) pp. 92-95

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Smith, David Canfield, Cypher, Allen and Tesler, Lawrence G. (2000): Novice Programming Comes of Age. In Communications of the ACM, 43 (3) pp. 75-81

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Smith, David Canfield, Cypher, Allen and Schmucker, Kurt (1996): Making Programming Easier for Children. In Interactions, 3 (5) pp. 58-67

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Wilde, Nicholas P., Chang, Shi-Kuo, Cox, Philip T. and Smith, David Canfield (1996): VL' 96 Special Event: Perspectives from the Pioneers (Panel). In: VL 1996 1996. pp. 328-333.

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Cypher, Allen and Smith, David Canfield (1995): KidSim: End User Programming of Simulations. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 27-34. Available online

KidSim is an environment that allows children to create their own simulations. They create their own characters, and they create rules that specify how the characters are to behave and interact. KidSim is programmed by demonstration, so that users do not need to learn a conventional programming language or scripting language. Informal user studies have shown that children are able to create simulations in KidSim with a minimum of instruction, and that KidSim stimulates their imagination.

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Smith, David Canfield, Cypher, Allen and Spohrer, James C. (1994): KidSim: Programming Agents Without a Programming Language. In Communications of the ACM, 37 (7) pp. 54-67

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Myers, Brad A., Cypher, Allen, Maulsby, David, Smith, David Canfield and Shneiderman, Ben (1991): Demonstrational Interfaces: Coming Soon?. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M. and Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 393-396. Available online

A "demonstrational interface" watches while the user executes conventional direct manipulation actions, creating a general abstraction from the specific examples. The panel will discuss how demonstrational interfaces can be used, and when and whether they will become more common.

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Johnson, Jeff A., Roberts, Teresa L., Verplank, William, Smith, David Canfield, Irby, Charles H., Beard, Marian and Mackey, Kevin (1989): The Xerox Star: A Retrospective. In IEEE Computer, 22 (9) pp. 11-29

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Smith, David Canfield (1983): Visibility in the STAR user interface. In: Graphics Interface 83 May 9-13, 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. p. 181.

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Publication statistics

Publication period:1983-2001
Publication count:10
Number of co-authors:17



Productive colleagues

David Canfield Smith's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Ben Shneiderman:206
Brad A. Myers:135
Shi-Kuo Chang:32


Collaboration count

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Allen Cypher:6
Kevin Mackey:1
Marian Beard:1

 

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