PLATEAU 2009 Panel

"Bridging the Gap Between Programming Languages and Human-Computer Interaction"

• 1630-1730

Are today's programming languages as easy to read and write as they could be? Are they good at communicating the programmer's intent to others? Can programing language designers learn anything from the Human-computer interaction community that will help us design better languages?

Three distinguished panelists will discuss their ideas around this issue, and open the discussion to the workshop participants.

Panelists

Larry Constantine Professor, University of Madeira, Portugal Director of the Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering
Dan Ingalls Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
Robert Biddle Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Carleton University, Canada

Moderator

Andrew Black Professor of Computer Science, Portland State University, USA