Lost while searching: Difficulties in information seeking among end-user programmers
Lost while searching: Difficulties in information seeking among end-user programmers
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搜索中迷失：最终用户程序员的信息查找困难
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2013
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Chris Roggi
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Brian Dorn;A. Stankiewicz;Chris Roggi
最终用户程序员（编写代码但缺乏计算机科学方面的正式培训的人）通常依赖各种工具（例如 API 文档或在 Web 上搜索信息）来完成特定任务。本研究调查了一组从事一系列代码修改任务的网页和图形设计师的信息搜集行为。我们发现用户的搜寻活动基本上不成功，很少有信息查找事件导致参与者的源代码发生明显变化。参与者查看的查询生成的结果非常少，并且很少多次细化查询。然而，这些类型的活动与任务成功指标呈正相关。最后，我们讨论了研究结果及其对最终用户程序员的未来编程环境和搜索工具设计的影响。
End-user programmers, those who write code but lack formal training in computer science, are often reliant on various tools such as API documentation or searching the Web for information in order to complete a specific task. This study examines the information foraging behaviors of a group of web and graphic designers engaged in a series of code modification tasks. We find that users were largely unsuccessful in their foraging activities, with few information seeking events resulting in noticeable changes to participants' source code. Participants viewed remarkably few results generated by their queries and rarely refined queries multiple times. However, these kinds of activities were positively correlated with task success metrics. We conclude with a discussion of the study's results and their implications on the design of future programming environments and search tools for end-user programmers.