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Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06)
Using Visual Momentum to Explain Disorientation in the Eclipse IDE
Brighton, United Kingdom
September 04-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2586-5
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Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, "Using Visual Momentum to Explain Disorientation in the Eclipse IDE," Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE Symposium on, pp. 51-54, Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06), 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.49,
author = {Brian de Alwis and Gail C. Murphy},
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publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Brian de Alwis, University of British Columbia
Gail C. Murphy, University of British Columbia
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.
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Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, "Using Visual Momentum to Explain Disorientation in the Eclipse IDE," vlhcc, pp.51-54, Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06), 2006
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