Onward! 2014
Mon 20 - Fri 24 October 2014 Portland, Oregon, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2014
Fri 24 Oct 2014 11:15 - 11:37 at Salon A - Session the Fourth Chair(s): Emery D. Berger

Firm principles which can be relied on to analyze and discuss textual and graphical code representations are still missing. We propose a framework relying on ScanVis, an extension of the Semiology of Graphics that models the perception and scanning of abstract graphics, to model and to provide plausible explanations of phenomena pertaining to the visual perception of representations of code. This framework unifies many aspects of the visual layout and appearance of programming languages and reveals similarities and substantial differences in the visual operations required by those notations. We also show how the framework may help compare and generate representations of programming languages with respect to visual perception. This work suggests that the gap between textual and graphical languages is narrow, and that all kind of programming languages should rely on the capability of the human visual system.

Fri 24 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Session the FourthOnward! Papers at Salon A
Chair(s): Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:30
22m
Talk
Phrase-Based Statistical Translation of Programming Languages
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Svetoslav Karaivanov ETH Zurich, Veselin Raychev ETH Zurich, Martin Vechev ETH Zurich
10:52
22m
Talk
Interleaving of Modification and Use in Data-driven Tool Development
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Marcel Taeumel Hasso Plattner Institute, Michael Perscheid Hasso Plattner Institute, Bastian Steinert Hasso Plattner Institute, Jens Lincke Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld HPI
11:15
22m
Talk
Unifying Textual and Visual: a Theoretical Account of the Visual Perception of Programming Languages
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Stéphane Conversy University of Toulouse - ENAC
11:37
22m
Talk
Variational Data Structures: Exploring Tradeoffs in Computing with Variability
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Eric Walkingshaw University of Marburg, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Martin Erwig Oregon State University, Sven Apel University of Passau, Eric Bodden Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt