Rewarding "Good" Behavior: End-User Debugging and Rewards

Authors:
Joseph R. Ruthruff;Amit Phalgune;Laura Beckwith;Margaret Burnett;Curtis Cook
Affiliations:
Oregon State University, Corvallis;Oregon State University, Corvallis;Oregon State University, Corvallis;Oregon State University, Corvallis;Oregon State University, Corvallis
Venue:
VLHCC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Emerging research has sought to bring effective debugging devices to end-user programmers. This research has largely focused on how well such devices bring genuine "functional" rewards to end users. However, emerging models of programming behavior indicate that another, often ignored, type of reward-perceivable rewards-can play an equally vital role in how well debugging devices serve end users. Using an empirically evaluated fault localization device, this paper investigates the impact such perceivable rewards can have on end-user debugging. Our results indicate that perceivable rewards alone can significantly improve the effectiveness and understanding of end users performing debugging tasks.