Alan F. Blackwell

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Alan F. Blackwell

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The state of the art in end-user software engineering (2011) (601)
Dasher—a data entry interface using continuous gestures and language models (2000) (359)
Programming (1973) (334)
Graphic elicitation: using research diagrams as interview stimuli (2006) (264)
First steps in programming: a rationale for attention investment models (2002) (262)
The reification of metaphor as a design tool (2006) (237)
CHAPTER 5 – Notational Systems—The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations Framework (2003) (224)
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology (2001) (208)
A user-centred approach to functions in Excel (2003) (190)
Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging (2006) (176)
Cognitive Dimensions of Information Artefacts: a tutorial (1998) (152)
A Cognitive Dimensions questionnaire optimised for users (2000) (145)
I did that! Measuring users' experience of agency in their own actions (2012) (119)
Mental imagery in program design and visual programming (1999) (104)
AutoHAN: an architecture for programming the home (2001) (103)
The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument (2005) (99)
The fuzzy felt ethnography—understanding the programming patterns of domestic appliances (2004) (96)
Metacognitive theories of visual programming: what do we think we are doing? (1996) (95)
From sonic Pi to overtone: creative musical experiences with domain-specific and functional languages (2013) (94)
Cognitive Questions in Software Visualisation (1997) (91)
Smartback: supporting users in back navigation (2004) (91)
Visual Metaphor (2009) (89)
Using Augmented Reality to Elicit Pretend Play for Children with Autism (2015) (88)
Goal recognition through goal graph analysis (2001) (80)
Electronic patient record use during ward rounds: a qualitative study of interaction between medical staff (2008) (79)
How do we program the home? Gender, attention investment, and the psychology of programming at home (2009) (72)
Radical innovation: crossing knowledge boundaries with interdisciplinary teams (2009) (66)
Cognitive Factors in Programming with Diagrams (2001) (66)
A Collaborative Dimensions Framework: Understanding the Mediating Role of Conceptual Visualizations in Collaborative Knowledge Work (2008) (66)
Investment of attention as an analytic approach to cognitive dimensions (1999) (65)
A tool for tracking visual attention: The Restricted Focus Viewer (2003) (64)
SWYN: a visual representation for regular expressions (2001) (64)
Visual Programming in the Wild: A Survey of LabVIEW Programmers (2001) (63)
A Meta-Taxonomy for Diagram Research (2002) (61)
Peripheral tangible interaction by analytic design (2009) (60)
The domestic economy: a broader unit of analysis for end user programming (2005) (60)
Correlates of the cognitive dimensions for tangible user interface (2006) (57)
Does metaphor increase visual language usability? (1999) (55)
Interacting with mobile services: an evaluation of camera-phones and visual tags (2007) (54)
Curriculum-focused design (2003) (53)
Through the looking glass: Pretend play for children with autism (2013) (53)
Direct Manipulation (2009) (51)
Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers (2007) (50)
Exploring violin sound quality: investigating English timbre descriptors and correlating resynthesized acoustical modifications with perceptual properties. (2012) (47)
Pictorial Representation and Metaphor in Visual Language Design (2001) (47)
Torino: A Tangible Programming Language Inclusive of Children with Visual Disabilities (2018) (46)
Dasher: A Gesture-Driven Data Entry Interface for Mobile Computing (2002) (46)
Metaphor in diagrams (1998) (45)
Tracking Virtuosity and Flow in Computer Music (2011) (44)
Analytic review of usability evaluation in ISMAR (2012) (43)
Tangible interface for collaborative information retrieval (2004) (43)
Restricted Focus Viewer: A Tool for Tracking Visual Attention (2000) (43)
Palimpsest: A layered language for exploratory image processing (2014) (42)
HCI as an Inter-Discipline (2015) (42)
Exploring Expressive Augmented Reality: The FingAR Puppet System for Social Pretend Play (2015) (40)
Psychological Issues in End-User Programming (2006) (39)
What is Programming? (2002) (38)
The Abstract is an Enemy: Alternative Perspectives to Computational Thinking (2008) (38)
Multi-disciplinary collaboration during ward rounds: Embodied aspects of electronic medical record usage (2011) (37)
Applying attention investment to end-user programming (2002) (36)
See What You Need: Helping End-users to Build Abstractions (2001) (34)
A glimpse of expert programmers' mental imagery (1997) (34)
Tangible user interfaces in context and theory (2007) (33)
The development of Sonic Pi and its use in educational partnerships: Co-creating pedagogies for learning computer programming (2017) (33)
Strategy Roadmaps: New Forms, New Practices (2008) (32)
Visual programming: the outlook from academia and industry (1997) (32)
Teaching rhetorical skills with a tangible user interface (2004) (32)
Ten years of cognitive dimensions in visual languages and computing: Guest Editor's introduction to special issue (2006) (31)
Thinking with Diagrams (2001) (31)
Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382) (2013) (30)
End-user developers at home (2004) (29)
Shared Conversations Across Design (2010) (28)
Sketching across design domains: Roles and formalities (2012) (28)
A Principled Approach to Developing New Languages for Live Coding (2011) (27)
Interacting with an inferred world: the challenge of machine learning for humane computer interaction (2015) (26)
Visualization Summit 2007: Ten Research Goals for 2010 (2007) (26)
The practices of programming (2016) (26)
PUX: patterns of user experience (2010) (25)
Witnesses to Design: A Phenomenology of Comparative Design (2009) (23)
Applying Seamful Design in Location-Based Mobile Museum Applications (2016) (23)
Effective Web Searching on Mobile Devices (2004) (22)
Gender in Domestic Programming: from Bricolage to Séances d'Essayage (2006) (22)
Critical issues in interaction design (2008) (22)
Liveness and Flow in Notation Use (2012) (22)
Cognitive Dimensions and Musical Notation Systems (2000) (22)
Using camera-phones to interact with context-aware mobile services (2004) (21)
Diagrams about Thoughts about Thoughts about Diagrams (1997) (21)
Collaboration and learning through live coding (2014) (21)
Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets (2015) (21)
The Webkit tangible user interface: a case study of iterative prototyping (2005) (21)
Perceptual studies of violin body damping and vibrato. (2010) (20)
Bodies Meet Minds: Choreography and Cognition (2006) (19)
Champagne Prototyping: A Research Technique for Early Evaluation of Complex End-User Programming Systems (2004) (19)
Product Design to Support User Abstractions (2003) (19)
Cognitive Dimensions of Tangible Programming Languages (2003) (19)
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (2004) (18)
Observing End-User Customisation of Electronic Patient Records (2009) (17)
Critical dialogue: interaction, experience and cultural theory (2010) (17)
Formality in Sketches and Visual Representation: Some Informal Reflections (2008) (16)
Using Research Diagrams for Member Validation in Qualitative Research (2006) (16)
Liveness in Notation Use: From Music to Programming (2010) (16)
Making Pretense Visible and Graspable: An augmented reality approach to promote pretend play (2012) (16)
Designing a Programming Language for Home Automation (2001) (16)
Using solid diagrams for tangible interface prototyping (2005) (15)
An empirical investigation of code completion usage by professional software developers (2015) (15)
SearchMobil: Web Viewing and Search for Mobile Devices (2003) (15)
A Logical Mind, not a Programming Mind: Psychology of a Professional End-User (2010) (15)
Fifty years of the psychology of programming (2019) (14)
Learning Syntax as Notational Expertise when using DrawBridge (2014) (14)
Metaphor or Analogy: how should we see programming abstractions (1996) (13)
Sketching by Programming in the Choreographic Language Agent (2012) (13)
Contextual Location in the Home Using Bluetooth Beacons (2019) (13)
Craft Practices of Live Coding Language Design (2015) (13)
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Understanding the Ergonomics of Diagram Use (2008) (12)
Visual discovery and model-driven explanation of time series patterns (2016) (12)
A Live, Multiple-Representation Probabilistic Programming Environment for Novices (2016) (12)
Teach and try: A simple interaction technique for exploratory data modelling by end users (2014) (12)
Filling the big hole in HCI research (2015) (12)
End-User Developers - What Are They Like? (2017) (12)
Ghosts! A Location-Based Bluetooth LE Mobile Game for Museum Exploration (2016) (12)
Metaphors we Program By: Space, Action and Society in Java (2006) (12)
Crafting a Critical Technical Practice (2010) (12)
Thinking about visual programs (1996) (12)
Clarifying Hypotheses by Sketching Data (2016) (11)
Natural Notation for the Domestic Internet of Things (2015) (11)
Temporal semantics for a live coding language (2014) (11)
Data Confidentiality (2009) (11)
Cognitive Dimensions of tangible programming techniques (2003) (11)
Flow of Creative Interaction with Digital Music Notations (2014) (11)
WHAT DESIGNERS THINK WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR PROCESSES: EARLY RESULTS FROM A COMPARATIVE STUDY (2004) (11)
Interaction with Uncertainty in Visualisations (2015) (11)
Bimanual tangible interaction with mobile phones (2009) (10)
When Systemizers Meet Empathizers: Universalism and the Prosthetic Imagination (2010) (10)
Patterns of User Experience in Performance Programming (2015) (10)
Articulating tangible interfaces (2009) (9)
Comparative study of design with application to engineering design (2005) (9)
Class Libraries: A Challenge for Programming Usability Research (2002) (9)
Choosing visualisations for collaborative work and meetings: a guide to usability dimensions (2008) (9)
End user software engineering: chi'2008 special interest group meeting (2008) (9)
Towards Ubiquitous End-User Programming (2003) (9)
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (2004) (8)
Supporting Retirement Socially and Musically by Technology: An Ethnographic Study of Local Community Musicians (2016) (8)
Introduction: Thinking with Diagrams (2004) (8)
Personality and intrinsic motivational factors in end-user programming (2015) (8)
Dealing with New Cognitive Dimensions (2000) (7)
Human Computer Interaction – Lecture Notes (2010) (7)
Contextual Method for the Redesign of Existing Software Products (2004) (7)
Work Meets Life: Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems (2011) (7)
Objective functions: (In)humanity and inequity in artificial intelligence (2019) (7)
SmartView and SearchMobil: Providing Overview and Detail in Handheld Browsing (2003) (7)
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations (2005) (7)
Understanding network management with OOA (1990) (7)
Graphic Score Grammars for End-Users (2012) (7)
Psychological Perspectives on Diagrams and their Users (2002) (7)
Ethnographic artificial intelligence (2021) (7)
Realtime Representation and Gestural Control of Musical Polytempi (2008) (6)
Computational Aesthetics as a Negotiated Boundary (2010) (6)
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004. Cambridge, UK, March 2004 (2004) (6)
Visual Similarity (2009) (6)
A Systematic Literature Review of Cognitive Dimensions (2017) (6)
Opportunities for augmenting conversation through technology for persons with dementia (2005) (6)
Effects of Timing on Users' Agency during Mixed-Initiative Interaction (2017) (5)
Tangible Interaction in a Mobile Context (2007) (5)
Data as Process (2019) (5)
Diagrammatic representation and inference : third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, Cambridge, UK, March 22-24, 2004 : proceedings (2004) (5)
Gesture and Embodied Interaction: Capturing Motion/Data/Value (2010) (5)
Making Material Culture (2006) (5)
Exploring Creative Learning for the Internet of Things era (2014) (5)
Interdisciplinarity and Innovation (2020) (5)
Augmenting Bioacoustic Cognition with Tangible User Interfaces (2015) (4)
Practice-led design and evaluation of a live visual constraint language (2013) (4)
Practitioner-Customizable Clinical Information Systems: A Case Study to Ground Further Research and Development Opportunities (2010) (4)
Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity (2019) (4)
Spatial reasoning with a qualitative representation (1989) (4)
Cognitive models of programming-like activity (2002) (4)
Undisciplined disciples: everything you always wanted to know about ethnomethodology but were afraid to ask Yoda (2017) (4)
The End-User Programming Challenge of Data Wrangling (2016) (4)
Designing knowledge: An interdisciplinary experiment in research infrastructure for shared description (2006) (4)
Sintr: Experimenting with liveness at scale (2016) (3)
Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing (2020) (3)
Structured Text Modification Using Guided Inference (2008) (3)
See-through window vs. magic mirror: A comparison in supporting visual-motor tasks (2013) (3)
Pruning the trees: The evaluation of notations for domain modelling (1998) (3)
Visual Data Analysis (2009) (3)
Visualizing Spatial Data (2009) (3)
Live Writing the Live Coding Book (2016) (3)
Transforming spreadsheets with data noodles (2016) (3)
Usability of Probabilistic Programming Languages (2019) (3)
Hunches and Sketches: rapid interactive exploration of large datasets through approximate visualisations (2014) (3)
Human Computer Interaction Notes (2001) (3)
A Craft Practice of Programming Language Research (2018) (3)
6, 000 Years of Programming Language Design: A Meditation on Eco's Perfect Language (2017) (3)
Perception of rhythmic agency for conversational labeling (2021) (2)
Data Manipulation Language (2009) (2)
Database Protection (2009) (2)
A Contextual Investigation of Location in the Home Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons (2017) (2)
A Solid Diagram Metaphor for Tangible Interaction (2007) (2)
Hospital user research using new media arts (2009) (2)
Co-located group interaction design (2008) (2)
User experiences in a visual analytics business (2017) (2)
Peripheral Tangible Interaction (2016) (2)
Diagrammatic Integration of Abstract Operations into Software Work Contexts (2002) (2)
Toward an undergraduate programme in Interdisciplinary Design (2007) (2)
Can we augment reality with "mental images" to elicit pretend play?: a usability study (2013) (2)
Wonders without number: the information economy of data and its subjects (2022) (2)
Advances in Critical Care Engineering (2011) (1)
Programming Culture in the 2nd-Generation Attention Economy (2006) (1)
A Visual Framework for Transparent and Accessible Machine Learning (2018) (1)
The Physical World as an Abstract Interface (2020) (1)
Computational thinking and creative practice (2012) (1)
A contextualised curriculum for HCI (2012) (1)
Interdisciplinary Design Research for End-User Software Engineering (2007) (1)
The Work of Designers: Cultures of Making and Representation (2011) (1)
Graphics & Interaction Group, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK (2013) (1)
Facilitating Argument in Physical Space (2003) (1)
Music in the Retiring Life: A Review of Evaluation Methods and Potential Factors (2015) (1)
Barriers to the secondary use of data in critical care (2018) (1)
Learning From Live Coding (2016) (1)
The patterns of user experience for sticky-note diagrams in software requirements workshops (2020) (1)
Usability of Programming Languages (2011) (1)
IoT Programming needs Deixis (2015) (1)
Inventing Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia (2021) (1)
Document Identifier (2020) (1)
Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel (2003) (1)
End-User Programming in the Networked Home (2001) (1)
Investigating Uncertainty in Postoperative Bleeding Management: Design Principles for Decision Support (2022) (0)
Cognitive Dimensions of Tangible Programming Languages In Proceedings of the First Joint Conference of EASE and PPIG 2003, pp. 391-405 (2003) (0)
Visualising Bayesian Probability in the Kalahari (2021) (0)
The Idea of a Probabilistic Programming Language (0)
Author ' s personal copy Analytic review of usability evaluation in ISMAR (2012) (0)
Visual interaction design (2000) (0)
Visual Analytics as End-User Programming (2015) (0)
Correction to: Scene Walk: a non‑photorealistic viewing tool for first‑person video (2021) (0)
Cognitive Dimensions Tradeoffs in Tangible User Interface Design (2005) (0)
Using diagrams in interviews (2005) (0)
Introduction: A Fresh Perspective on Work (2011) (0)
Data Cache (2009) (0)
Coding or AI? Tools for Control, Surprise and Creativity (2022) (0)
Qualitative Research (2006) (0)
Keynote address: Design Research and Academic Disciplines (2009) (0)
Retirement Transition in the Digital Ecology: Reflecting on Identity Reconstruction and Technology Appropriation (2017) (0)
Musician Fantasies of Dialectical Interaction: Mixed-Initiative Interaction and the Open Work (2015) (0)
Data Tracking (2009) (0)
Reflections on ‘What do we think we are doing’: 20-Year most influential paper award talk (2017) (0)
Dirichlet Tessellation (2009) (0)
Structuring the Social (2014) (0)
Video Search (2009) (0)
Vernacular Languages for Mechatronic Making (2016) (0)
Visualization Summit 2007; ; Information Visualisation; (2007) (0)
Session details: I am here. Where are you? (2008) (0)
Digital Surface Model (2009) (0)
Conference Organisation (2018) (0)
Critical Codes – from forkbomb to brainfuck (2013) (0)
Visual Knowledge Negotiation (2018) (0)
The two kinds of artificial intelligence, or how not to confuse objects and subjects (2023) (0)
Lucy A. Suchman. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN-10 052167588X, ISBN-13 978-0521675888 326 pages (2011) (0)
Usable Morality – A Challenge for End User Security (2006) (0)
Interaction manifolds: theory from experiments (2007) (0)
Interactive Bayesian Probability for Learning in Diverse Populations (2022) (0)
Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering Reviewers of 2017 (2018) (0)
Video Skimming (2009) (0)
Writing the Live Coding Book (2016) (0)
Live Coded Mashup with the Humming Wires (2019) (0)
Distance-Preserving Mapping (2009) (0)
Objective Functions , Deep Learning and Random Forests (0)
Understanding Timing in Mixed-Initiative Interaction (2016) (0)
Tolstoy and the telephone : Locus of attention in information artefacts (1999) (0)
2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2016 (2016) (0)
Knowledge based production scheduling for advanced manufacturing (1991) (0)
Video Indexing (2009) (0)
Decentralized Data Integration System (2009) (0)
Undisciplined disciples: everything you always wanted to know about ethnomethodology but were afraid to ask Yoda (2017) (0)
Data Types for Moving Objects (2009) (0)
ESIGN OF T ANGIBLE U SER I NTERFACES (2003) (0)
Data Errors (2022) (0)
A Small Battle with POP Guns: Simulating a Programming Project (1997) (0)
Correction to: Scene Walk: a non‑photorealistic viewing tool for first‑person video (2021) (0)
Visualization Summit 2007; The Visualization Summit; Information visualization; (2007) (0)
Proceedings of HCI 2009 - Index (2009) (0)
Scene Walk: a non-photorealistic viewing tool for first-person video (2021) (0)
Reflections: On Exploring Work in Living Systems (2011) (0)
Degrees of Consistency (2009) (0)
Visualising Bayesian Probability in the Kalahari 1 (2021) (0)
Cuscus: An End User Programming Tool for Data Visualisation (2019) (0)
Too Cool to Boogie: (2021) (0)
Data Perturbation (2009) (0)
Visualising Latent Semantic Spaces for Sense-Making of Natural Language Text (2018) (0)
Making Algorithmic Systems More Meaningfully Transparent for Users Through Visualisation (2022) (0)
Power: Plate section (2006) (0)
What is a theory in HCI? Why take a theory driven approach to HCI? (2022) (0)
Keynote Addresses (1995) (0)
Contents of Volume 15 (2004) (0)

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