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Assessing End-User Programming for a Graphics Development Environment

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Quartz Composer is a graphics development environment that uses a visual programming paradigm to enable its users to create a wide variety of animations. Although it is very powerful with a rich set of programming capabilities for its users, there remain barriers to its full use, especially by end-users. This paper presents a prototype end-user programming system that is designed to remove the barriers present in the native Quartz Composer environment. The system, called QEUP, is based on earlier work with cogito. It provides direct access to samples of Quartz Composer output without requiring any of the manual programming involved in Quartz Composer. In order to assess the impacts of QEUP, a user study was conducted with 15 participants. Preliminary results indicate that there may be benefit to using QEUP when first learning Quartz Composer, or when learning new capabilities within it.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Regina, Canada

    Lizao Fang & Daryl H. Hepting

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, M3J 1P3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Aijun An

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary’s University, B3H 3C3, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Pawan Lingras

  3. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, S4S 0A2, Regina, SK, Canada

    Sheila Petty

  4. Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, 3-7-2, Kajino-cho, Koganei-shi, 184-8584, Tokyo, Japan

    Runhe Huang

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Fang, L., Hepting, D.H. (2010). Assessing End-User Programming for a Graphics Development Environment. In: An, A., Lingras, P., Petty, S., Huang, R. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15470-6_43

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