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Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja, Beckwith, Laura, Grigoreanu, Valentina, Burnett, Margaret, Wiedenbeck, Susan, Narayanan, Vaishnavi, Bucht, Karin, Drummond, Russell and Fern, Xiaoli (2008): Testing vs. code inspection vs. what else?: male and female end users' debugging strategies. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 617-626. Available online

“Little is known about the strategies end-user programmers use in debugging their programs, and even less is known about gender differences that may exist in these strategies. Without this type of information, designers of end-user programming systems cannot know the "target" at which to aim, if they are to support male and female end-user programmers. We present a study investigating this issue. We asked end-user programmers to debug spreadsheets and to describe their debugging strategies. Using mixed methods, we analyzed their strategies and looked for relationships among participants' strategy choices, gender, and debugging success. Our results indicate that males and females debug in quite different ways, that opportunities for improving support for end-user debugging strategies for both genders are abundant, and that tools currently available to end-user debuggers may be especially deficient in supporting debugging strategies used by females.”

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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. Available online

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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. Available online

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Beckwith, Laura, Kissinger, Cory, Burnett, Margaret, Wiedenbeck, Susan, Lawrance, Joseph, Blackwell, Alan and Cook, Curtis (2006): Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 231-240. Available online

“Earlier research on gender effects with software features intended to help problem-solvers in end-user debugging environments has shown that females are less likely to use unfamiliar software features. This poses a serious problem because these features may be key to helping them with debugging problems. Contrasting this with research documenting males' inclination for tinkering in unfamiliar environments, the question arises as to whether encouraging tinkering with new features would help females overcome the factors, such as low self-efficacy, that led to the earlier results. In this paper, we present an experiment with males and females in an end-user debugging setting, and investigate how tinkering behavior impacts several measures of their debugging success. Our results show that the factors of tinkering, reflection, and self-efficacy, can combine in multiple ways to impact debugging effectiveness differently for males than for females.”

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Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret M., Grigoreanu, Valentina and Wiedenbeck, Susan (2006): Gender HCI: What About the Software?. In IEEE Computer, 39 (11) pp. 97-101

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Grigoreanu, Valentina, Beckwith, Laura, Fern, Xiaoli Z., Yang, Sherry, Komireddy, Chaitanya, Narayanan, Vaishnavi, Cook, Curtis R. and Burnett, Margaret M. (2006): Gender Differences in End-User Debugging, Revisited: What the Miners Found. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 19-26. Available online

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Kissinger, Cory, Burnett, Margaret M., Stumpf, Simone, Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja, Beckwith, Laura, Yang, Sherry and Rosson, Mary Beth (2006): Supporting end-user debugging: what do users want to know?. In: Celentano, Augusto (ed.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 135-142. Available online

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Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret, Wiedenbeck, Susan, Cook, Curtis, Sorte, Shraddha and Hastings, Michelle (2005): Effectiveness of end-user debugging software features: are there gender issues?. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 869-878. Available online

“Although gender differences in a technological world are receiving significant research attention, much of the research and practice has aimed at how society and education can impact the successes and retention of female computer science professionals-but the possibility of gender issues within software has received almost no attention. If gender issues exist with some types of software features, it is possible that accommodating them by changing these features can increase effectiveness, but only if we know what these issues are. In this paper, we empirically investigate gender differences for end users in the context of debugging spreadsheets. Our results uncover significant gender differences in self-efficacy and feature acceptance, with females exhibiting lower self-efficacy and lower feature acceptance. The results also show that these differences can significantly reduce females' effectiveness.”

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Beckwith, Laura (2005): Gender HCI issues in problem-solving software. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1104-1105. Available online

“Thus far, researchers have not investigated gender HCI issues in the context of end-user problem-solving software. Designers' ignorance of gender differences is particularly evident in studies showing software is unintentionally designed for males. We are investigating gender HCI issues using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods, using formative work to consider gender-conscious design features, implementing these features in our research prototype, and following up with summative work to evaluate effectiveness.”

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Beckwith, Laura, Sorte, Shraddha, Burnett, Margaret M., Wiedenbeck, Susan, Chintakovid, Thippaya and Cook, Curtis R. (2005): Designing Features for Both Genders in End-User Programming Environments. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 153-160. Available online

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Phalgune, Amit, Kissinger, Cory, Burnett, Margaret M., Cook, Curtis R., Beckwith, Laura and Ruthruff, Joseph R. (2005): Garbage in, Garbage out? An Empirical Look at Oracle Mistakes by End-User Programmers. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 45-52. Available online

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Robertson, T. J., Prabhakararao, Shrinu, Burnett, Margaret, Cook, Curtis, Ruthruff, Joseph R., Beckwith, Laura and Phalgune, Amit (2004): Impact of interruption style on end-user debugging. In: Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth and Tscheligi, Manfred (eds.) Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. pp. 287-294. Available online

“Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers' debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the proper mechanism to alert the user to this information. The choice of alerting mechanism can be important, because as previous research has shown, different interruption styles have different potential advantages and disadvantages. To explore impacts of interruptions in the end-user debugging domain, this paper describes an empirical comparison of two interruption styles that have been used to alert end-user programmers to debugging information. Our results show that negotiated-style interruptions were superior to immediate-style interruptions in several issues of importance to end-user debugging, and further suggest that a reason for this superiority may be that immediate-style interruptions encourage different debugging strategies.”

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Beckwith, Laura and Burnett, Margaret M. (2004): Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?. In: VL-HCC 2004 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 26-29 September, 2004, Rome, Italy. pp. 107-114. Available online

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Ruthruff, Joseph R., Phalgune, Amit, Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret M. and Cook, Curtis R. (2004): Rewarding "Good" Behavior: End-User Debugging and Rewards. In: VL-HCC 2004 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 26-29 September, 2004, Rome, Italy. pp. 115-122. Available online

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Wilson, Aaron, Burnett, Margaret, Beckwith, Laura, Granatir, Orion, Casburn, Ledah, Cook, Curtis, Durham, Mike and Rothermel, Gregg (2003): Harnessing curiosity to increase correctness in end-user programming. In: Cockton, Gilbert and Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 305-312.

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Beckwith, Laura (2003): Gender HCI issues in end-user software engineering. In: HCC 2003 - IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments 28-31 October, 2003, Auckland, New Zealand. pp. 273-274.

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Beckwith, Laura, Burnett, Margaret M. and Cook, Curtis R. (2002): Reasoning about Many-to-Many Requirement Relationships in Spreadsheets. In: HCC 2002 - IEEE CS International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments 3-6 September, 2002, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 149-157. Available online

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Publication count:17
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