SoD-HCER: Contextualized Design Education for Professionals from Non-Computing Disciplines

计算机与信息科学与工程理事会（CISE）计算机与网络系统（CNS）设计科学（SoD）项目提案号：0613738 P/I: Mark Guzdial PI的部门：计算学院：佐治亚理工学院奖金：137,114美元标题：“SoD- hcer：面向非计算学科专业人员的情境化设计教育”该项目的重点是最终用户程序员。最终用户软件开发人员是设计和实现软件的人，但他们没有接受过从事这项活动的正式培训。这是一个庞大的群体（估计在5500万到9000万人之间），他们的活动范围从为了扩展工具的功能而使用编程或脚本语言进行编码，到为广泛使用的办公产品编写宏或开发web材料。该项目解决的一些问题是：“当地开发商对设计了解多少？”本地开发商应该从设计中学到什么？我们如何教他们设计？他们对数据结构、结构化编程或结构化过程了解多少？如果设计知识的缺乏被记录下来，它对工件的影响是什么？该项目的目标是：调查当地开发者看重的设计知识，以及他们如何寻求这些知识；探索以个案为基础的协同设计援助机制，以支援现有的本地发展商社群；探索将设计教育嵌入到本地开发者的应用程序中，并衡量由此产生的设计学习量。总的研究目标是为软件开发人员制定指导方针，这些开发人员的用户可能成为最终用户程序员，甚至是本地开发人员。项目的成功将意味着行业将获得更多关于最终用户参与的设计实践的知识。这些知识可能会为这类开发人员带来更有效的支持结构和教育。有很多这样的人，分布在各种各样的职业中，所以影响可能会影响到许多组织。此外，获得的关于被研究人群的见解可能会影响计算机科学理论、教育和设计科学对广大计算机用户的影响。这项研究的另一个成果是指导如何为最终用户程序员提供基于任务的学习支持。这项研究的潜在影响是深远的——它可以为将支持终端用户编程的技术引入商业产品铺平道路。项目经理：Anita J. La salle2006年6月27日

Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)Division Computer and Network Systems (CNS)Science of Design (SoD) ProgramProposal Number: 0613738 P/I: Mark Guzdial PI's Department: College of Computing Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology Award: $ 137,114 Title: "SoD-HCER: Contextualized Design Education for Professionals from Non-Computing Disciplines"The focus of this project is on end-user programmers. End-user software developers are people who are design and implement software but who have not been formally trained to engage in this activity. This is a large population (estimated between 55 and 90 million people) whose activities range from coding in programming or scripting languages in order to extend the capabilities of a tool, to writing macros for widely used office products or developing web materials. Some of the questions addressed in the project are: "What do local developers know about design? What should local developers learn about design? How can we teach them about design? What do they understand about data structures, structured programming, or structured processes? If there is a documented lack of design knowledge, what is its impact on their artifacts? The goals of the project are: to investigate what design knowledge local developers value and how they seek out this knowledge; to explore the mechanism of a collaborative case-based design aid to support an existing community of local developers; to explore embedding design education into the local developer's application and to measure the amount of design learning that results. The overall research goal is to develop guidelines for software developers whose users may become end-user programmers and even local developers. The projects success will mean the industry will gain increased knowledge about design practices engaged in by end-users. That knowledge may lead to more effective support structures and education for this class of developers. There are a lot of such people, distributed across a wide range of professions, so impacts may affect many organizations. In addition, insights gained about the population being studied may impact computer science theory and education and the science of design on a wide population of computer users. Another outcome of this research is guidance on how to provide support for task-based learning for end-user programmers. The potential impact of research is far reaching--it could pave the way for introducing techniques for supporting end-user programming into commercial products.Program Manager: Anita J. La SalleDate: June 27, 2006