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Pub. period:2007-2012
Pub. count:8
Number of co-authors:21

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Margaret M. Burnett:5
Joseph Lawrance:2
Richard Ladner:2

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Margaret M. Burnet..:103
Susan Wiedenbeck:63
Laura Beckwith:18

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Publications by Kyle Rector (bibliography)

2012

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Azenkot, Shiri, Rector, Kyle, Ladner, Richard and Wobbrock, Jacob (2012): PassChords: secure multi-touch authentication for blind people. In: Fourteenth Annual ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies 2012. pp. 159-166.

“Blind mobile device users face security risks such as inaccessible authentication methods, and aural and visual eavesdropping. We interviewed 13 blind smartphone users and found that most participants were unaware of or not concerned about potential security threats. Not a single participant used optional authentication methods such as a password-protected screen lock. We addressed the high risk of unauthorized user access by developing PassChords, a non-visual authentication method for touch surfaces that is robust to aural and visual eavesdropping. A user enters a PassChord by tapping several times on a touch surface with one or more fingers. The set of fingers used in each tap defines the password. We give preliminary evidence that a four-tap PassChord has about the same entropy, a measure of password strength, as a four-digit personal identification number (PIN) used in the iPhone's Passcode Lock. We conducted a study with 16 blind participants that showed that PassChords were nearly three times as fast as iPhone's Passcode Lock with VoiceOver, suggesting that PassChords are a viable accessible authentication method for touch screens.”

2011

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Rector, Kyle, Ladner, Richard and Shepardson, Michelle (2011): Incentivizing the ASL-STEM forum. In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration 2011. pp. 219-220.

“The ASL-STEM Forum is a web forum which allows people who know American Sign Language (ASL), to contribute signs in the fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). A key problem is increasing participation and contributions to the forum. To solve this problem, we introduced personal smart notifications, based on user profiles, which encourage users to contribute to the forum by adding new signs for STEM terms or commenting on existing signs. Since there might be a chance that a member will be familiar with the author of a topic or sign, they might be more inclined to contribute. In future work, a user study will follow to evaluate whether personal smart notifications will increase contributions to the ASL-STEM forum.”

2010

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Cao, Jill, Rector, Kyle, Park, Thomas H., Fleming, Scott D., Burnett, Margaret M. and Wiedenbeck, Susan (2010): A Debugging Perspective on End-User Mashup Programming. In: Hundhausen, Christopher D., Pietriga, Emmanuel, Diaz, Paloma and Rosson, Mary Beth (eds.) IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2010 21-25 September 2010, 2010, Leganés-Madrid, Spain. pp. 149-156.

2008

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Lawrance, Joseph, Bellamy, Rachel, Burnett, Margaret M. and Rector, Kyle (2008): Using information scent to model the dynamic foraging behavior of programmers in maintenance tasks. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1323-1332.

“In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a theoretical basis that could reduce the need for ad hoc tool building approaches by explaining what is fundamentally necessary in such tools. In this paper, we present PFIS (Programmer Flow by Information Scent), a model and algorithm of programmer navigation during software maintenance. We also describe an experimental study of expert programmers debugging real bugs described in real bug reports for a real Java application. We found that PFIS' performance was close to aggregated human decisions as to where to navigate, and was significantly better than individual programmers' decisions.”

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Grigoreanu, Valentina, Cao, Jill, Kulesza, Todd, Bogart, Christopher, Rector, Kyle, Burnett, Margaret M. and Wiedenbeck, Susan (2008): Can feature design reduce the gender gap in end-user software development environments?. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 149-156.

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Lawrance, Joseph, Bellamy, Rachel K. E., Bumett, Margaret and Rector, Kyle (2008): Can information foraging pick the fix? A field study. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 57-64.

2007

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Beckwith, Laura, Inman, Derek, Rector, Kyle and Burnett, Margaret M. (2007): On to the Real World: Gender and Self-Efficacy in Excel. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 119-126.

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Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja, Kissinger, Cory, Rector, Kyle, Inman, Derek, Kaplan, Jared, Beckwith, Laura and Burnett, Margaret M. (2007): Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 127-136.

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