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

计算机与信息科学与工程(CEISE)司计算机与网络系统(CNS)设计科学(SoD)计划建议编号：0613738 P/I：Mark Guzial Pi的系：计算学院：佐治亚理工学院奖：$137,114标题：“SoD-HCER：面向非计算学科的专业人员的情境化设计教育”本项目的重点是终端用户程序员。终端用户软件开发人员是指正在设计和实施软件，但没有接受过正式培训来从事这一活动的人员。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扩展工具的功能而使用编程或脚本语言编码，到为广泛使用的办公产品编写宏或开发网络材料。该项目中涉及的一些问题是：“当地开发商对设计了解多少？当地开发商应该学习哪些关于设计的知识？我们怎么才能教他们设计呢？他们对数据结构、结构化编程或结构化流程了解多少？如果有文档记录的设计知识的缺乏，它对他们的构件有什么影响？该项目的目标是：调查当地开发人员重视什么设计知识以及他们如何寻找这些知识；探索基于案例的协作设计辅助机制以支持现有的当地开发人员社区；探索将设计教育嵌入到当地开发人员的应用程序中，并衡量由此产生的设计学习的数量。总体研究目标是为用户可能成为最终用户程序员甚至本地开发人员的软件开发人员制定指导方针。项目的成功将意味着该行业将获得更多关于最终用户从事的设计实践的知识。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。这类人很多，分布在各行各业，因此影响可能会影响到许多组织。此外，对被研究人群的洞察可能会影响计算机科学理论和教育，以及广大计算机用户群体的设计科学。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。研究的潜在影响是深远的--它可能为将支持最终用户编程的技术引入商业产品铺平道路。项目经理：Anita J.La SalleDate：2006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