DocumentCode
2588204
Title
Using Visual Momentum to Explain Disorientation in the Eclipse IDE
Author
De Alwis, Brian ; Murphy, Gail C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC
fYear
2006
fDate
4-8 Sept. 2006
Firstpage
51
Lastpage
54
Abstract
We report on a field study about how software developers experience disorientation when using the Eclipse Java integrated development environment. We analyzed the data using the theory of visual momentum, identifying three factors that may lead to disorientation: the absence of connecting navigation context during program exploration, thrashing between displays to view necessary pieces of code, and the pursuit of sometimes unrelated subtasks
Keywords
Java; ergonomics; programming environments; Eclipse IDE; Eclipse Java integrated development environment; software development; visual momentum; Computer displays; Computer science; Data analysis; Java; Joining processes; Navigation; Open source software; Pattern analysis; Programming; User interfaces;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Brighton
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2586-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLHCC.2006.49
Filename
1698761
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