I do not expect anything from this kind of workshop.
Me neither, but this workshop can be a good alternative to many other
workshop at oopsla. Moreover, a 4 pages paper does not require a lot
of work.
Alexandre
On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>> I like the topic of the workshop, because I have struggled with the
>> problem of evaluating and comparing usability a lot in the past,
>> and I
>> see that Antoine and Frédéric have similar problems with their
>> research. The only thing I hope is that this workshop is not on the
>> same day as
>
> I was thinking that having a short paper on Pharo will definitely be
> of a good move.
>
>> DLS (where we'll be presenting the RoelTyper paper, that
>> got accepted after Frédéric improved the precision; watch out for
>> this
>> new version in Squeak and Pharo one of the coming days).
>
> Congratulation!
>
>> Alex, are you going to OOPSLA ?
>
> Unfortunately not. I won't attend ESUG as well. sic...
> Next year my budget will be much larger.
>
> Alexandre
>
>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Alexandre
>> Bergel<alexandre(a)bergel.eu> wrote:
>>> I like the idea of this workshop. If someone is going to OOPSLA
>>> this year,
>>> this may be interesting.
>>> If someone plan to go there, let me know.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> From: Shane Markstrum <smarkstr(a)acm.org>
>>>> Date: 20 July 2009 16:40:22 GMT-04:00
>>>> To: types-announce(a)lists.seas.upenn.edu, seworld(a)sigsoft.org,
>>>> announce(a)aosd.net, chi-announcements(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG,
>>>> hci-link(a)lists.uni-paderborn.de
>>>> Subject: [SEWORLD] Call for Papers: Evaluation and Usability of
>>>> Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) 2009
>>>>
>>>> Call for Papers
>>>>
>>>> PLATEAU 2009
>>>>
>>>> First Workshop on
>>>> Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools
>>>> (PLATEAU)
>>>> in conjunction with Onward!/OOPSLA 2009
>>>> October 25-29, 2009 (Orlando, FL)
>>>>
>>>>
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome
>>>>
>>>> SUBMISSION SITE
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau09
>>>>
>>>> IMPORTANT DATES
>>>>
>>>> Submission August 31
>>>> Notification Mid-September (before close of early registration
>>>> for
>>>> OOPSLA/Onward!)
>>>> Final version TBA
>>>> Workshop TBA, one-half or one-full day between October 25
>>>> and 29
>>>>
>>>> SCOPE
>>>>
>>>> Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop
>>>> software
>>>> effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software
>>>> depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they
>>>> develop
>>>> with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and
>>>> techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language
>>>> tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a
>>>> large
>>>> space, including making programs easier to read, write, and
>>>> maintain;
>>>> allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful
>>>> programs; and
>>>> restricting programs to make them more safe and secure.
>>>>
>>>> We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the
>>>> programming
>>>> language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction
>>>> communities
>>>> to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and
>>>> usability of programming languages and tools. We are also
>>>> interested
>>>> in the input of other members of the programming research
>>>> community
>>>> working on related areas, such as refactoring, design patterns,
>>>> program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization,
>>>> end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms.
>>>> Some
>>>> particular areas of interest are:
>>>>
>>>> - empirical studies of programming languages
>>>> - methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool
>>>> evaluation
>>>> - software design metrics and their relations to the underlying
>>>> language
>>>> - user studies of language features and software engineering tools
>>>> - visual techniques for understanding programming languages
>>>> - critical comparisons of programming paradigms, such as
>>>> object-oriented vs. functional
>>>> - tools to support evaluating programming languages
>>>>
>>>> SUBMISSIONS
>>>>
>>>> Participants are invited to submit a position paper describing
>>>> their
>>>> on going work. We will accept papers (from 4 to 6 pages) that
>>>> describe
>>>> work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes
>>>> and
>>>> goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences
>>>> gained,
>>>> question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or
>>>> propose
>>>> speculative new approaches. Longer submissions will be
>>>> considered, but
>>>> all submissions must be fewer than 10 pages.
>>>>
>>>> Submissions and final papers should be formatted using the ACM
>>>> SIGPLAN
>>>> 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at
>>>>
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm; this site
>>>> also
>>>> contains links to useful information on how to write effective
>>>> submissions.
>>>>
>>>> Accepted submissions will be made available through this website
>>>> and
>>>> workshop participants are encouraged to have read the position
>>>> papers
>>>> before attending the workshop. Participants are also asked to
>>>> prepare
>>>> a presentation to support their position paper.
>>>>
>>>> ORGANIZERS (and members of the Committee)
>>>>
>>>> Craig Anslow - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
>>>> Shane Markstrum - Bucknell University, USA
>>>> Emerson Murphy-Hill - University of British Columbia, Canada
>>>>
>>>> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Black - Portland State University, USA
>>>> Larry Constantine - University of Madeira, Portugal
>>>> Jeff Foster - University of Maryland, College Park, USA
>>>> Robert Fuhrer - IBM Research, USA
>>>> Donna Malayeri - EPFL, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA
>>>> Stuart Marshall - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
>>>> Todd Millstein - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
>>>> James Noble - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
>>>> Ewan Tempero - University of Auckland, New Zealand
>>>>
>>>> For more information, please see the workshop website:
>>>>
>>>>
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome
>>>>
>>>> ============================================================
>>>> To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to
>>>> mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more
>>>> information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of
>>>> messages posted to the list.
>>>> ============================================================
>>>>
>>>>
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