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Foraging among an Overabundance of Similar Variants

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Talkat CHI 2016 · 2016-05-07..05-12· [developer-experience]

speakers

name:Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan
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name:Sandeep Kaur Kuttal
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name:Charles G. Hill
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name:Anita Sarma
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name:David Piorkowski
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name:Margaret Burnett
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/5MnnTqyFnfo
slides:none on file

summary

Study of eight novice programmers examines reuse across many near-duplicate program copies and refines Information Foraging Theory by adding a variation dimension. Participants receive timestamped, chronologically ordered variants with change logs and use timestamps, change-log descriptions and visible UI differences to select source and destination copies. They perform between-variant foraging to find the right copy and within-variant foraging to find patches, reuse matched “information features” across copies sometimes successfully, sometimes leading to abandonment. Open questions: useful auto-save points and appropriate variant granularity.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
  2. 2:41Research questions and study setup
  3. 6:38Foraging process and patch identification
  4. 11:35Integration and evaluation of variants
  5. 14:26Implications and open questions
  6. 16:13Conclusion and Q&A

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