Brian Hempel

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Tidynote: Always-Clear Notebook Authoring

Recent work identified clarity as one of the top quality attributes that notebook users value, but notebooks lack support for maintaining clarity throughout the exploratory phases of the notebook authoring workflow. We propose always-clear notebook authoring that supports both clarity and exploration, and present a Ju…

CHI '252nd AuthorHonorable MentionInteractive Data Visualization +2

The Shapes of Abstraction in Data Structure Diagrams

Tools to inspect runtime state, like print statements and debuggers, are an essential part of programming. Yet, a major limitation is that they present data at a fixed, low level of abstraction which can overload the user with irrelevant details. In contrast, human drawings of data structures use many illustrative vis…

CHI '242nd AuthorHonorable MentionInteractive Data Visualization +1

Taking ASCII Drawings Seriously: How Programmers Diagram Code

Documentation in codebases facilitates knowledge transfer. But tools for programming are largely text-based, and so developers resort to creating ASCII diagrams---graphical artifacts approximated with text---to show visual ideas within their code. Despite real-world use, little is known about these diagrams. We interv…

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