VL/HCC Most Influential Paper Awards
The VL/HCC community has begun a tradition in 2008. Each year, a voting group consisting of all members of the current steering committee, current program committee, and program chairs of the VL/HCC conferences of the years being considered, review the papers from the VL/HCCs held one decade ago (and, until 2017, two decades ago), to select the papers from these decades that have had the most influence on VL/HCC research or commerce.
The voting group considers technical papers presented at VL/HCC approximately one decade ago and approximately two decades ago. All community members are invited to nominate papers from these years and, once a shortlist of nominated papers is produced, the voting group members who do not have conflicts with the nominees review and vote for the most influential paper from each decade.
Following this process, the voting group voted to award the Most Influential Paper Awards to the following papers:
MIP Awards 2008:
HI-VISUAL: A Language Supporting Visual Interaction in Programming
N. Monden, Y. Yoshino, M. Hirakawa, M. Tanaka, and T. Ichikawa
1984 Workshop on Visual Languages
Diagram Editing with Hypergraph Parser Support
Mark Minas
1997 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
MIP Awards 2009:
Prograph: A Step towards Liberating Programming from Textual Conditioning
Philip T. Cox, F. Rick Giles, Tom Pietrzykowski
1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
Formalizing Spider Diagrams
Joseph Gil, John Howse, Stuart Kent
1999 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
MIP Awards 2010:
The specification of visual language syntax
Eric J. Golin, Steven P. Reiss
1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
Extending UML for Modeling of Multimedia Applications
Stefan Sauer, Gregor Engels
1999 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
MIP Awards 2011:
A Declarative Approach to Event-Handling in Visual Programming Languages
Margaret Burnett and Allen Ambler
1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
First Steps In Programming: A Rationale for Attention Investment Models
Alan Blackwell
2002 IEEE International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing
MIP Awards 2012:
Understanding and characterizing software visualization systems
John Stasko and Charles Patterson
1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
The immune system as a reactive system: modeling T cell activation with statecharts
Na'aman Kam, Irun R. Cohen, David Harel
2001 IEEE International Conferences on Human-Centric Computing
Using HCI techniques to design a more usable programming system
John F. Pane, Brad A. Myers, and Leah B. Miller
2002 IEEE International Conferences on Human-Centric Computing
MIP Awards 2013:
Agentsheets: applying grid-based spatial reasoning to human-computer interaction
Alex Repenning, and Wayne Citrin
1993 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming System
Amy J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, and Htet Htet Aung
2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
MIP Awards 2014:
Constraint Multiset Grammars
Kim Marriott
1995 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
Formalising Visual Languages
Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi and Piero Mussio
1995 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
Estimating the Numbers of End Users and End User Programmers
Christopher Scaffidi, Mary Shaw, and Brad Myers
2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
MIP Awards 2015:
Empirically Evaluating the Use of Animations to Teach Algorithms
Andrea W. Lawrence, Albert M. Badre, and John T. Stasko
1994 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?
Laura Beckwith and Margaret Burnett
2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
MIP Awards 2016:
DiaGen: a generator for diagram editors providing direct manipulation and execution of diagrams
Mark Minas, Gerhard Viehstaedt
VL 1995
Easing program comprehension by sharing navigation data
R. DeLine, M. Czerwinski, G. Robertson
VL/HCC 2005
and
Benchmarking for graph transformation
G. Varro, A. Sch�rr, D. Varro
VL/HCC 2005
MIP Awards 2017:
Metacognitive Theories Of Visual Programming: What Do We Think We Are Doing?
Alan F. Blackwell
VL 1996
Mica: A Web-Search Tool For Finding API Components And Examples
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
VL/HCC 2006
MIP Award 2018:
Codetrail: Connecting source code and web resources
Max Goldman, Robert C. Miller
VL/HCC 2008
MIP Award 2019:
Automatically Inferring ClassSheet Models from Spreadsheets
Jácome Cunha, Martin Erwig, João Saraiva
VL/HCC 2010
MIP Award 2020:
Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for Adaptive Visual Language Learning
Kyu Han Koh, Ashok Basawapatna, Vicki Bennett, Alexander Repenning
VL/HCC 2010
MIP Award 2021:
Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs
Todd Kulesza, Simone Stumpf, Margaret Burnett, Weng-Keen Wong, Yann Riche, Travis Moore, Ian Oberst, Amber Shinsel, Kevin McIntosh.
VL/HCC 2010
MIP Award 2022:
Modeling Programmer Navigation: A Head-to-head Empirical Evaluation of Predictive Models
David Piorkowski, Scott D. Fleming, Christopher Scaffidi, Liza John, Christopher Bogart, Bonnie E. John, Margaret Burnett, Rachel Bellamy.
VL/HCC 2011
MIP Award 2023:
Visualization of fine-grained code change history
YoungSeok Yoon, Brad A. Myers, Sebon Koo
VL/HCC 2013
MIP Award 2024:
Principles of a Debugging-First Puzzle Game for Computing Education
Michael Lee, Faezeh Bahmani, Irwin Kwan, Jilian Laferte, Polina Charters, Amber Horvath, Fanny Luor, Jill Cao, Catherine Law, Michael Beswetherick, Sheridan Long, Margaret Burnett, Amy Ko.
VL/HCC 2014