Psychology of
Programming Interest Group
PPIG 2014 25th Workshop, Brighton, UK:
25-27 June 2014
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/bend/ppig2014/
Deadline extended
from 25th March to 31st March 2014
We invite papers concerned
with psychological aspects of software development. PPIG entertains a broad
spectrum of research approaches, from theoretical perspectives drawing on
psychological theory to empirical perspectives grounded in real-world
experience, and is equally concerned with all aspects of programming and
software engineering, from the design of programming languages to communication
issues in software teams, and from computing education to high-performance
professional practice.
Despite its title, PPIG is interested not only in psychology
of programming and software engineering, but also in psychological aspects of
related activities where people meet formal structures. Indeed, a feature of
the PPIG workshops has always been their openness: although principally related
to programming and software engineering, recent events have touched on learning
mathematical formalisms, creativity and digital design, understanding websites,
and live coding in the laptop music world. Similarly, PPIG entertains a broad
spectrum of research approaches, from theoretical perspectives drawing on
psychological and social theory to empirical perspectives grounded in real‐world experience. We have open
minds: if you think we might be interested, try us.
As this is the 25th Anniversary Workshop we
are also interested in review papers that draw together a theme from the last
25 years.
Some themes to prompt you:
á Empirical
studies of programming
á Programming
education and skills acquisition
á Human
centered design and evaluation of programming languages, tools and
infrastructure
á Programming
and human cognition
á Human
Computer Interaction issues in programming
á Team/cooperative
work in programming
á End user
programming
á Distributed
programming, globalisation, work in large teams
á Free/libre
open source software development
á Software
engineering methods, planning, estimation, agility etc.
á Gender,
age, culture and programming
á New
paradigms in programming
á Code
quality, readability and re‐use
á Mistakes,
bugs, and error handling
á Working
with notation
á Specialist
and domain centered programming tools and languages
á Unconventional
interactions and quasi‐progamming
Other approaches and insights are welcome.
Submission
Full Papers should be 12 pages
or less. Authors may also submit a 6 page Short Paper or a Work in
Progress Report, clearly marked as such, to describe conjectural, late‐breaking or tentative results. The
refereeing process will be suitably lighter. As in previous years, the Programme Committee
will review all submitted papers and, based on their reviews, each accepted
paper will be classified as a "Full Technical Paper" or a "Work
in Progress Report". All
papers accepted for presentation at PPIG 2014 will appear in the workshop
proceedings and be archived on the PPIG website.
To format your paper, please use the PPIG
Word Template or a LaTeX
description. available from the website http://www.ppig.org/templates/
Note that the
templates currently (21st February 2014) refer to earlier PPIG conferences. This will be fixed.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format
via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppig2014
Doctoral
Consortium
The Psychology of Programming Interest Group Workshop
will again host a doctoral consortium. The event is for research students at
all stages of doctoral study. The event will include brief introductions by
each of the student participants (on the order of 10 minutes, plus time for
questions, depending on the number of students involved) and interactive
sessions on the process and nature of Ph.D. research. Experienced researchers,
in addition to the organisers, will participate as 'discussants' to add
different perspectives and to provide feedback on individual research programs. Submission: applications must provide an
overview of your research (max 6 pages) and be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppig2014 as
for other papers.
Dates
25th
March: submission of draft Full and Short or Work
in Progress papers
7th
May: authors will be notified
1st
June: submission of final camera‐ready copy
11th
May: submission of Doctorial Consortium papers (Note: date brought forward from 25th May)