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End-user programming has become pervasive in our society, with end users programming simulations, courseware, spreadsheets, macros, mashups, and more. This talk considers what happens when we add consideration of the software lifecycle beyond the "coding” phase of end-user programming. Considering other phases is necessary, because there is ample evidence that the programs end users create are filled with errors. End-user software engineering (EUSE) is a research area that aims to invent new kinds of technologies that collaborate with end users to improve the quality of their software.

In this webinar, we describe the present state of EUSE, and challenges in moving forward toward a bright future. We show how the future of EUSE may become over-siloed, restricting future researchers’ vision of what can be achieved. We then show that focusing on the in-the-moment intents of end-user developers can be used to derive a number of promising directions forward for EUSE researchers, and how theories can help us further de-silo future EUSE research. Finally, we discuss how overcoming challenges for the future of end-user software engineering may also bring direct benefits to the future of “classic” software engineering.

Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
Margaret Burnett, Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University, co-founded the area of end-user software engineering. Her team's "WYSIWYT" systematic testing approach for end-user programmers initiated the groundwork, and in 2003, she co-founded and became Project Director of the EUSES Consortium. Under her leadership, this collaboration grew to 10 institutions whose contributions have helped ordinary end users achieve up to 10 times greater effectiveness at guarding against software defects, receiving wide recognition for technical quality (11 Best Paper recognitions for the project during Burnett’s leadership). Burnett's awards for her own work include several Best Paper recognitions, IBM's International Faculty Award, the NSF Young Investigator Award, and the 2015 NCWIT Faculty Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. She has served on seven editorial boards and conference committees, including IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, ACM Trans. on Interactive Intelligent Systems, ACM CHI, and ACM FSE and ACM/IEEE ICSE. Her research is in human aspects of software development, which lies in the intersection of HCI and software engineering, and currently focuses on end-user programming, end-user software engineering, information foraging theory as applied to programming, and gender issues in those contexts.

Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University
Brad A. Myers is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, winner of nine best paper type awards and three Most Influential Paper Awards. He is also a member of the CHI Academy, an honor bestowed on the principal leaders of the field. He is the principal investigator for the Natural Programming Project and the Pebbles Handheld Computer Project, and previously led the Amulet and Garnet projects. He is the author or editor of over 425 publications, including the books Creating User Interfaces by Demonstration and Languages for Developing User Interfaces, and he has been on the editorial board of five journals. He has been a consultant on user interface design and implementation to over 75 companies, and regularly teaches courses on user interface design and software. Myers received a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto where he developed the Peridot user interface tool. He received M.S. and B.Sc. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during which time he was a research intern at Xerox PARC. From 1980 until 1983, he worked at PERQ Systems Corporation. His research interests include user interface development systems, user interfaces, handheld computers, programming environments, programming language design, programming by example, visual programming, interaction techniques, and window management. He belongs to ACM, SIGCHI, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.