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Perceived Obstacles by Novice Developers Adopting User Interface APIs and Tools

Irum Rauf, Pekka Perälä, Jouni Huotari, Ivan Porres, Perceived Obstacles by Novice Developers Adopting User Interface APIs and Tools. In: Alan Blackwell, Beryl Plimmer, Gem Stapleton (Eds.), 2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2016, 223–227, IEEE, 2016.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2016.7739689

Abstract:

An Application-Programming Interface or API provides a set of program functions that can be used to build new applications. In this paper, we study how to use the expectation-confirmation theory (ECT) to identify API usability problems, and what obstacles a novice developer faces when learning a new API and its accompanying development tools. We conduct a study over the impact of using a visual editor on API usability and then use the expectation-confirmation theory to study perceptions about the API and the editor. We finally present a list of obstacles found in the study that can be used by others to create more usable APIs and development tools.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpRaPeHuPo16a,
  title = {Perceived Obstacles by Novice Developers Adopting User Interface APIs and Tools},
  booktitle = {2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2016},
  author = {Rauf, Irum and Perälä, Pekka and Huotari, Jouni and Porres, Ivan},
  editor = {Blackwell, Alan and Plimmer, Beryl and Stapleton, Gem},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  pages = {223–227},
  year = {2016},
  ISSN = {1943-6092},
}

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