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ITICSE
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Self-efficacy and mental models in learning to program
Learning to program is a unique experience for each student, and it is not fully understood why one person in an introductory programming course learns to program better and more ...
Vennila Ramalingam, Deborah LaBelle, Susan Wiedenb...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots
– Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after huma...
Sau-lai Lee, Sara B. Kiesler, Ivy Yee-man Lau, Chi...
SIGDOC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Handling objects: a scenario based approach
We report on the development of a tool which supports software programmers in programming to an interface by providing just in time (JIT) solutions. The development of the tool wa...
Thomas George Kannampallil, John M. Daughtry III
ICSEA
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Reflection: Improving Research through Knowledge Transfer
— It is through our mental models of the world that we understand it. Advances in science are nothing more than improvements to the model. This paper presents the development and...
Andre Oboler, Simon Lock, Ian Sommerville
FC
2007
Springer
122views Cryptology» more  FC 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Mental Models of Security Risks
1 2 There is a critical need in computer security to communicate risks and thereby enable informed decisions by naive users. Yet computer security has not been engaged with the sc...
Farzaneh Asgharpour, Debin Liu, L. Jean Camp
HICSS
2008
IEEE
110views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Shared Mental Models among Open Source Software Developers
1 Shared understandings are important for software development as they guide to effective individual contributions to, and coordination of, the software development process. In thi...
Barbara Scozzi, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
How it works: a field study of non-technical users interacting with an intelligent system
In order to develop intelligent systems that attain the trust of their users, it is important to understand how users perceive such systems and develop those perceptions over time...
Joe Tullio, Anind K. Dey, Jason Chalecki, James Fo...