Using Crowd-sourcing to Improve the Semantic ...
Document type :
Communication dans un congrès avec actes
Title :
Using Crowd-sourcing to Improve the Semantic Transparency of Committee-Designed Languages
Author(s) :
El Kouhen, Amine [Auteur]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Gherbi, Abdelouahed [Auteur]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Dumoulin, Cedric [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille [LIFL]
Contributions of the Data parallelism to real time [DART]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Gherbi, Abdelouahed [Auteur]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Dumoulin, Cedric [Auteur]

Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille [LIFL]
Contributions of the Data parallelism to real time [DART]
Conference title :
ITSLE @ 7th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)
City :
Vasteras
Country :
Suède
Start date of the conference :
2014-09-14
Publication date :
2014-09-14
HAL domain(s) :
Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]
English abstract : [en]
Committee-designed languages such as those of the OMG consortium are widely used in both industry and academia. These languages seem to be used increasingly by users with no technical background for the visualization, ...
Show more >Committee-designed languages such as those of the OMG consortium are widely used in both industry and academia. These languages seem to be used increasingly by users with no technical background for the visualization, documentation and specification of workflows, data and software systems. However, according to several studies on these languages, the used visual notations do not seem to convey any particular semantics and the recognition of such notations is not perceptually immediate. This lack of semantic transparency increases the cognitive load to differentiate concepts from each other and slows down recognition and learning of the language constructs. This paper proposes a process, which leverages the crowd-sourcing to improve the semantic transparency of such languages. We believe that involving end-users in the design process of the languages visual notations should increase the expressiveness of these languages and then their acceptance for a wide range of novice-users.Show less >
Show more >Committee-designed languages such as those of the OMG consortium are widely used in both industry and academia. These languages seem to be used increasingly by users with no technical background for the visualization, documentation and specification of workflows, data and software systems. However, according to several studies on these languages, the used visual notations do not seem to convey any particular semantics and the recognition of such notations is not perceptually immediate. This lack of semantic transparency increases the cognitive load to differentiate concepts from each other and slows down recognition and learning of the language constructs. This paper proposes a process, which leverages the crowd-sourcing to improve the semantic transparency of such languages. We believe that involving end-users in the design process of the languages visual notations should increase the expressiveness of these languages and then their acceptance for a wide range of novice-users.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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