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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Let's go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they ...
Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine, Andr...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Why is my internet slow?: making network speeds visible
With widespread broadband adoption, more households report experiencing sub-optimal speeds. Not only are slow speeds frustrating, they may indicate consumers are not receiving the...
Marshini Chetty, David Haslem, Andrew Baird, Ugoch...
ACE
2004
171views Education» more  ACE 2004»
13 years 5 months ago
Teaching Computer Architecture in Introductory Computing: Why? and How?
This paper discusses our rationale for teaching the fundamentals of computer architecture early in the computer science (CS) degree program. We also describe an active learning te...
Kris D. Powers
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Why and why not explanations improve the intelligibility of context-aware intelligent systems
Context-aware intelligent systems employ implicit inputs, and make decisions based on complex rules and machine learning models that are rarely clear to users. Such lack of system...
Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey, Daniel Avrahami