An important skill graduating computing students require is to evaluate a given software
design and ensure that it satisfies the intended requirements. Prior work has shown that …

Developers spend a significant amount of time trying to understand code bases. To aid
developers' comprehension of code, researchers have developed software visualization …

Even relatively simple code analysis can be a daunting task for many first year students.
Perceived complexity, coupled with foreign and harsh syntax, often outstrips the ability for …

Traditional graphic design tools emphasize the grid for structuring layout. Interviews with
professional graphic designers revealed that they use surprisingly sophisticated structures …

Recent studies have shown that sketches and diagrams play an important role in the daily
work of software developers. If these visual artifacts are archived, they are often detached …

Documents often have paragraphs packed with numbers that are difficult to extract,
compare, and interpret. To help readers make sense of data in text, we introduce the …

Data workers use various scripting languages for data transformation, such as SAS, R, and
Python. However, understanding intricate code pieces requires advanced programming …

As software systems grow in size and use more third-party libraries and frameworks, the
need for developers to understand unfamiliar large codebases is rapidly increasing. In this …

For decades, professional programmers have been reading and writing programs using a
text editor to directly view and modify source files. Despite the ubiquity of this approach, it …

Information visualizations have been shown useful in numerous laboratory studies, but their
adoption and use in real-life tasks are curiously under-researched. We present a field study …