I flew back home yesterday. Turns out hurricane Rita wasn't nearly the monster of destruction people were expecting. We had no trouble getting to the airport and catching our flight. In fact, we even caught an early flight.
Friday was the last day of the "conference" part of VL/HCC. Another smattering of good papers. The most interesting papers (see the list) for Friday were: 1) "Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data" by Robert Deline et al at HIP group in MS Research and 2) "Achieving Flexibility in Direct-Manipulation Programming Environments by Relaxing the Edit-Time Grammar" by Birnbaum et al from Washington University in St. Louis (about the JPie project).
Saturday was the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations tutorial and workshop. The sessions were lead by Alan Blackwell, and he did an excellent job, per usual. I was particularly fascinated to be on the "business end" of a research workshop.
Overall, VL/HCC '05 was a great experience. I hope I can attend again next year, especially because it will be in the UK and co-located with PPIG and SoftVis.
Posted by enigma at September 25, 2005 11:03 PMSharing Navigation Data is rather clever. If the navigation data could be broken out by date in order to be matched against source control and bug database history it would be quite useful.
If there was a more generic implementation that could take into account other open files on the system (documentation, 3rd party development tools, text logs, emails, etc) it would be extremely useful.
Posted by: Kevin Worcester at September 26, 2005 12:48 PM