Programmers Are People, too

Programmers are People , Too : Applying User - Centered Design to Middleware

Monsters are people too.

Animals, including dogs, dolphins, monkeys and man, follow gaze. What mediates this bias towards the eyes? One hypothesis is that primates possess a distinct neural module that is uniquely tuned for the eyes of others. An alternative explanation is that configural face processing drives fixations to the middle of peoples' faces, which is where the eyes happen to be located. We distinguish betwe...

Programmers are Users Too: Human Centered Methods for Improving Tools for Programming

Software development continues to be one of the most difficult human tasks. Over the past thirty years of research, we have found that the methods and approaches from the field of HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) are effective in better understanding and meeting the needs of programmers of all types: novice, professional, and end-user programmers (EUPs). We have applied these methods across all ...

Women are people too : The problem of designing for gender

Cultural theory breaks with Modern analysis by rejecting traditional notions of race, gender, class and sexuality. In doing so, alternative frameworks such as Post-Feminism emerge which are useful for thinking about culture, technology and what our interactions with it mean. From a Post-Feminist perspective it can be seen how in our multi-cultural, post-industrial, digitized world, there is spa...

People are variables too: multilevel structural equations modeling.

The article uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) as a template to explain didactically multilevel structural equation models (ML-SEM) and to demonstrate the equivalence of general mixed-effects models and ML-SEM. An intuitively appealing graphical representation of complex ML-SEMs is introduced that succinctly describes the underlying model and its assumptions. The use of definition variable...