End users creating effective software

  • Authors:
  • Brad A. Myers;Margaret Burnett

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

  • Venue:
  • CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Is it possible to bring the benefits of rigorous software engineering methodologies to end users? End users create software when they use spreadsheet systems, web authoring tools and graphical languages, when they write educational simulations, spreadsheets, and dynamic e-business web applications. Unfortunately, however, errors are pervasive in end-user software, and the resulting impact is sometimes enormous. A growing number of researchers and developers are working on ways to make the software created by end-users more reliable. This special interest group meeting will help start to form a community of researchers who are addressing this topic.