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Programming as problem solving: a participatory theater approach

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sumner, Tamara Repenning, Alex
Abstract	Spatial and temporal metaphors can play an important role in making the task of programming serve problem-solving processes. Visual programming research hopes to capitalize on innate human perceptual skills to make the programming task easier by using visualization to simplify program construction at the syntactic level. Instead, we advocate that the role of visualizations, and the consequent use of spatial metaphors, is not to simplify programming per se but instead to support the problem-solving process. To that end, environments endorsing spatial metaphors should support: creating and changing external representations of the problem, and opportunistic design strategies necessary for exploring problem spaces. We discuss problems with human-computer interaction schemes arising from the use of temporal metaphors. Direct-manipulation, on the one hand, can be too direct for controlling a number of autonomous processes such as cooperating agents. The complete delegation of tasks to agents, on the other hand, can leave users entirely in the role of passive observers. We propose a new approach, called the participatory theater metaphor, which combines the advantages of human computer interaction schemes based on direction manipulation and delegation and provides users with a continuous spectrum of control over their program behaviors.
Starting Page	182
Ending Page	191
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897917332
DOI	10.1145/192309.192346
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1994-06-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Visual programming Temporal metaphors Direct manipulation Agents Problem solving Human-computer interaction Delegation interfaces Participatory theater Spatial metaphors Opportunistic design
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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