Title :
Using Visual Momentum to Explain Disorientation in the Eclipse IDE
Author :
De Alwis, Brian ; Murphy, Gail C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC
Abstract :
We report on a field study about how software developers experience disorientation when using the Eclipse Java integrated development environment. We analyzed the data using the theory of visual momentum, identifying three factors that may lead to disorientation: the absence of connecting navigation context during program exploration, thrashing between displays to view necessary pieces of code, and the pursuit of sometimes unrelated subtasks
Keywords :
Java; ergonomics; programming environments; Eclipse IDE; Eclipse Java integrated development environment; software development; visual momentum; Computer displays; Computer science; Data analysis; Java; Joining processes; Navigation; Open source software; Pattern analysis; Programming; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2586-5
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2006.49
