Topic T5H: Usability

Summary

• Requested in 15/26 calls
• Requested in 13/19 pure calls (2012–2026 with the longest streak of 11 years)
• Primary tagged in 4/26 paper bundles
• Primary tagged in 4/19 pure proceedings (2008–2017 with the longest streak of 1 years)
• Secondary tagged in 18/26 paper bundles
• Secondary tagged in 15/19 pure proceedings (2009–2024 with the longest streak of 13 years)
• Top 3 co-occurring topics:
  • T4A: Workbenches (38 times)
  • T1D: Composition (13 times)
  • T3C: DSLs (12 times)
• Top 3 contributors:
  • Markus Völter (5 times)
  • Benoît Combemale (4 times)
  • Tijs van der Storm (4 times)

List of papers (57)

• (SLE 2008) Evaluating the Visual Syntax of UML: An Analysis of the Cognitive Effectiveness of the UML Family of Diagrams (Daniel Laurence Moody, Jos van Hillegersberg) T5H T4F T5E
• (SLE 2008 SI) The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering (Daniel Laurence Moody) T1A T5H T4F
• (SLE 2009) Integration of Data Validation and User Interface Concerns in a DSL for Web Applications (Danny M. Groenewegen, Eelco Visser) T3C T1D T5H
• (SLE 2009) Natural and Flexible Error Recovery for Generated Parsers (Maartje de Jonge, Emma Nilsson-Nyman, Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser) T4A T5H T4D
• (SLE 2009) Generating Smart Wrapper Libraries for Arbitrary APIs (Uwe Jugel) T3F T4C T5H
• (SLE 2010) Debugging in Domain-Specific Modelling (Raphael Mannadiar, Hans Vangheluwe) T4A T5H T3C
• (SLE 2010) Analysing the Cognitive Effectiveness of the BPMN 2.0 Visual Notation (Nicolas Genon, Patrick Heymans, Daniel Amyot) T5H T4F T1A
• (SLE 2012) Addressing Cognitive and Social Challenges in Designing and Using Ontologies in the Biomedical Domain (Margaret-Anne Storey) T3E T5H T6G
• (SLE 2012) TouchRAM: A Multitouch-Enabled Tool for Aspect-Oriented Software Design (Wisam Al Abed, Valentin Bonnet, Matthias Schöttle, Engin Yıldırım, Omar Alam, Jörg Kienzle) T4F T5H T4A
• (SLE 2012) Approaches and Tools for Implementing Type Systems in Xtext (Lorenzo Bettini, Dietmar Stoll, Markus Völter, Serano Colameo) T1B T4A T5H
• (SLE 2013) Micro-Machinations: A DSL for Game Economies (Paul Klint, Riemer van Rozen) T3C T4E T5H
• (SLE 2013) A Pretty Good Formatting Pipeline (Anya Helene Bagge, Tero Hasu) T4B T4A T5H
• (SLE 2014) From Language Engineering to Viewpoint Engineering (Colin Atkinson) T5H T4A T4F T1D
• (SLE 2014) Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors (Markus Völter, Janet Siegmund, Thorsten Berger, Bernd Kolb) T4A T1D T5H
• (SLE 2014) Eco: A Language Composition Editor (Lukas Diekmann, Laurence Tratt) T4A T1D T5B T5H
• (SLE 2014) The Moldable Debugger: A Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers (Andrei Chiș, Tudor Gîrba, Oscar Nierstrasz) T4A T4D T3C T5H
• (SLE 2014) Evaluating the Usability of a Visual Feature Modeling Notation (Aleksandar Jakšic, Robert B. France, Philippe Collet, Sudipto Ghosh) T5H T4F T2C T5E
• (SLE 2014 SI) Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework (Andrei Chiș, Marcus Denker, Tudor Gîrba, Oscar Nierstrasz) T4A T4D T5H T5F
• (SLE 2015) Supporting Efficient and Advanced Omniscient Debugging for xDSMLs (Erwan Bousse, Jonathan Corley, Benoît Combemale, Jeffrey G. Gray, Benoît Baudry) T4A T4D T5H T3C
• (SLE 2016) Efficient Development of Consistent Projectional Editors using Grammar Cells (Markus Völter, Tamás Szabó, Sascha Lisson, Bernd Kolb, Sebastian Erdweg, Thorsten Berger) T4A T1D T5H
• (SLE 2016) Towards a Universal Code Formatter through Machine Learning (Terence Parr, Jurgen Vinju) T4G T4B T5H T3D
• (SLE 2016) Principled Syntactic Code Completion using Placeholders (Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Sebastian Erdweg, Guido Wachsmuth, Eelco Visser) T4A T5H T1A
• (SLE 2017) Better Call the Crowd: Using Crowdsourcing to Shape the Notation of Domain-Specific Languages (Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Andrea Mauri) T5H T1A T5E T3C
• (SLE 2017) Debugging with Domain-Specific Events via Macros (Xiangqi Li, Matthew Flatt) T4A T1D T4D T5H
• (SLE 2017) Robust Programs with Filtered Iterators (Jiasi Shen, Martin C. Rinard) T1A T4D T5H T3D
• (SLE 2017) Robust Projectional Editing (Friedrich Steimann, Marcus Frenkel, Markus Völter) T4A T1B T5H T1D
• (SLE 2017) Virtual Textual Model Composition for Supporting Versioning and Aspect-Orientation (Robert Bill, Patrick Neubauer, Manuel Wimmer) T1D T2B T4B T5H
• (SLE 2017) A Requirements Engineering Approach for Usability-Driven DSL Development (Ankica Barišić, Dominique Blouin, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão) T5A T5H T3C T2B
• (SLE 2018) Bacatá: A Language Parametric Notebook Generator (Mauricio Verano Merino, Jurgen Vinju, Tijs van der Storm) T4A T4C T4D T5H
• (SLE 2018) Fostering Metamodels and Grammars within a Dedicated Environment for HPC: The NabLab Environment (Benoît Lelandais, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Benoît Combemale) T4A T1D T5H T6B
• (SLE 2018) Shape-diverse DSLs: Languages without Borders (Fabien Coulon, Thomas Degueule, Tijs van der Storm, Benoît Combemale) T6D T4A T5E T5H
• (SLE 2018) GLL Parsing with Flexible Combinators (L. Thomas van Binsbergen, Elizabeth Scott, Adrian Johnstone) T3A T4A T5H T6B
• (SLE 2019) Operationalizing the Integration of User Interaction Specifications in the Synthesis of Modeling Editors (Vasco Sousa, Eugene Syriani, Khady Fall) T1C T4A T1D T5H
• (SLE 2019) Shadow Models: Incremental Transformations for MPS (Markus Völter, Klaus Birken, Sascha Lisson, Alexander Rimer) T3B T4A T5H
• (SLE 2019) Default Disambiguation for Online Parsers (Lukas Diekmann, Laurence Tratt) T1A T5E T1D T5H
• (SLE 2019) Analysis and Modeling of the Governance in General Programming Languages (Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot) T4A T5E T5H
• (SLE 2019) Developing a Monadic Type Checker for an Object-Oriented Language: An Experience Report (Elias Castegren, Kiko Fernandez-Reyes) T1A T4A T4C T5H
• (SLE 2020) A Search-Based and Fault-Tolerant Approach to Concurrent Model Synchronisation (Nils B. Weidmann, Lars Fritsche, Anthony Anjorin) T3B T4B T5H
• (SLE 2020) Principles and Patterns of JastAdd-style Reference Attribute Grammars (Niklas Fors, Emma Söderberg, Görel Hedin) T3A T4A T5E T5H
• (SLE 2020) An Interactive Feedback System for Grammar Development (Chelsea Barraball, Moeketsi Raselimo, Bernd Fischer) T1A T4A T4B T5H
• (SLE 2020) Featherweight Swift: A Core Calculus for Swift’s Type System (Dimi Racordon, Didier Buchs) T1B T4A T5D T5H
• (SLE 2020) Example-Driven Software Language Engineering (Mikhail Barash) T1B T4A T4B T5H
• (SLE 2020) Block-Based Syntax from Context-Free Grammars (Mauricio Verano Merino, Tijs van der Storm) T3C T4A T4C T5H
• (SLE 2021) Integrating Usability into Programming Language Design (Jonathan Aldrich) T6D T5H T4A T1D
• (SLE 2021) Monilogging for Executable Domain-Lpecific Languages (Dorian Leroy, Benoît Lelandais, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Benoît Combemale) T3C T4A T4D T5H
• (SLE 2021) Live Programming and Programming by Example: Better Together (Sorin Lerner) T4A T4G T5H T4D
• (SLE 2021) Automated Engineering of Metamorphic Testing Environments for Domain-Specific Languages (Pablo C. Cañizares, Pablo Gómez-Abajo, Alberto Núñez, Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara) T3C T4A T5D T5H
• (SLE 2022) Freon: An Open Web Native Language Workbench (Jos Warmer, Anneke Kleppe) T4A T3C T5H
• (SLE 2022) Workbench for Creating Block-Based Environments (Mauricio Verano Merino, Koen van Wijk) T4A T4F T5H
• (SLE 2022) Gradual Grammars: Syntax in Levels and Locales (Tijs van der Storm, Felienne Hermans) T1A T5H T1D
• (SLE 2022) Property Probes: Source Code Based Exploration of Program Analysis Results (Anton Risberg Alaküla, Görel Hedin, Niklas Fors, Adrian Pop) T4F T4A T5H
• (SLE 2023) GPT-3-Powered Type Error Debugging: Investigating the Use of Large Language Models for Code Repair (Francisco Ribeiro, José Nuno Macedo, Kanae Tsushima, Rui Abreu, João Saraiva) T4G T1B T5H
• (SLE 2023) Cross-Level Debugging for Static Analysers (Mats Van Molle, Bram Vandenbogaerde, Coen De Roover) T5D T4A T5H
• (SLE 2023) Online Name-Based Navigation for Software Meta-languages (Peter D. Mosses) T4A T3A T5H
• (SLE 2024) The Linguistic Theory behind Blockly Languages (Friedrich Steimann, Robin Stunic) T1A T4F T5H T3C
• (SLE 2024) Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure from Code: An Empirical Study (Georg Simhandl, Uwe Zdun) T5E T5H T2D T3F
• (SLE 2024 SI) Property probes: Live exploration of program analysis results (Anton Risberg Alaküla, Görel Hedin, Niklas Fors, Adrian Pop) T4A T5B T5H T5F

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