Brian, >I'm a PhD student studying with Gail Murphy at the University of >British Columbia. I'm looking into alleviating the loss of context >experienced by programmers during development. I'm focussing >specifically on expert programmers dealing with large systems, such
I hope you are not making the mistake commonly made in academia that 3rd year undergraduate == expert programmer >as Eclipse. By loss of context, I mean that they `get lost', >forgetting what they were doing. It seems similar to the `lost in >hyperspace' problem experienced in hypertext, and there are elements >of information overload as well. I think one of the key phrases you need to search on is 'situation awareness' (this will throw up lots of research on flight deck research). There has been some interesting work done by chemistry educators in working out the cognitive resources needed by students to solve chemistry problems. The paper to read is: Johnstone, A. H. and El-Banna, A., Capacities, demands and processes - a predictive model for science education. Education in Chemistry, 23(5), 80-84, 1986. There is a good list of references at: http://dbweb.liv.ac.uk/ltsnpsc/AB/AB-html/node10.html and the following is online: www.uoi.gr/cerp/2001_October/pdf/10Lee.pdf derek -- Derek M Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
