PL and HCI: Better Together
summary
Argues that pairing PL tools with HCI design reduces user effort and ambiguity, and demonstrates it by extending an off‑the‑shelf regex synthesizer (Rego) with semantic augmentation (light annotations on examples) and data augmentation (auto‑generated familiar and corner examples via DFA enumeration). A within‑subject study with 12 CS participants shows the augmented interface lets all 12 finish (3.3 iterations average) versus 4 finishing with baseline; a 20‑question StackOverflow check averages 5.4 iterations (~5 minutes).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:23Outline
- 8:58Design Argument
- 9:18Interface Affording New Interactions
- 16:13System Interface Design
- 16:58Evaluation of New Interactions
- 29:11Identifying and Addressing Riskiest RO
- 32:15Spiral (Iterative) Design
- 33:52Promising Research Directions Composed with Sarah Chasins (UC Berkeley) and Josh Sunshine CMU
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