Harnessing Curiosity to Increase Correctness in End-User Programming (2002) [21 citations — 16 self]
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author = {A. Wilson and M. Burnett and L. Beckwith and O. Granatir and L. Casburn and C. Cook and M. Durham and G. Rothermel},
title = {Harnessing Curiosity to Increase Correctness in End-User Programming},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
year = {2002},
pages = {305--312}
}
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Despite their ability to help with program correctness, assertions have been notoriously unpopular---even with professional programmers. End-user programmers seem even less likely to appreciate the value of assertions; yet end-user programs suffer from serious correctness problems that assertions could help detect. This leads to the following question: can end users be enticed to enter assertions? To investigate this question, we have devised a curiosity-centered approach to eliciting assertions from end users, built on a surprise-explain-reward strategy. Our follow-up work with end-user participants shows that the approach is effective in encouraging end users to enter assertions that help them find errors.
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