Christopher Brooks

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“Families are messy”: From Parent-Child Tensions to Family-Centered Design of Smart Home Technologies

Smart home technologies have become common in family homes, making even young children inevitable users of these technologies. However, these systems are typically designed for individual adults, creating family tensions and conflicts over children's access, safety, and appropriate smart home use. To investigate child…

CHI '23CorrespondingHonorable MentionProgramming Education & Computational Thinking +2

Colaroid: A Literate Programming Approach for Authoring Explorable Multi-Stage Tutorials

Multi-stage programming tutorials are key learning resources for programmers, using progressive incremental steps to teach them how to build larger software systems. A good multi-stage tutorial describes the code clearly, explains the rationale and code changes for each step, and allows readers to experiment as they w…

CSCW '214th AuthorLearning and Mentoring

PuzzleMe: Leveraging Peer Assessment for In-Class Programming Exercises

Peer assessment, as a form of collaborative learning, can engage students in active learning and improve students' learning gains. However, current teaching platforms and programming environments provide little support to integrate peer assessment for in-class programming exercises. We identified challenges in conduct…

CSCW '193rd AuthorBest PaperCoordination and Collaboration

How Data Scientists Use Computational Notebooks for Real-Time Collaboration

Effective collaboration in data science can leverage domain expertise from each team member and thus improve the quality and efficiency of the work. Computational notebooks give data scientists a convenient interactive solution for sharing and keeping track of the data exploration process through a combination of code…

CSCW '182nd AuthorChatting and Livestreaming

Creating Guided Code Explanations with chat.codes

Effective communication is crucial for programmers of all skill levels. However, communicating about code can be difficult, particularly in asynchronous settings where one user writes an explanation for another user to read and understand later on. Communicating about code is uniquely difficult for two reasons. First,…

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