Most Influential Paper Awards
The VL/HCC community began this tradition in 2008. Each year a voting group — the current Steering Committee, the current Program Committee, and the program chairs of the VL/HCC conferences of the years being considered — reviews the papers from the VL/HCCs held one decade ago (and, until 2017, two decades ago), to select the papers from those decades that have had the most influence on VL/HCC research or commerce.
All community members are invited to nominate papers from those years. Once a shortlist 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.
Award recipients
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Empirically Evaluating the Use of Animations to Teach Algorithms
1994 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
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Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?
2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
2014
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1994 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
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1995 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
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Estimating the Numbers of End Users and End User Programmers
2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
2013
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Agentsheets: applying grid-based spatial reasoning to human-computer interaction
1993 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
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Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming System
2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
2012
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Understanding and characterizing software visualization systems
1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
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The immune system as a reactive system: modeling T cell activation with statecharts
2001 IEEE International Conferences on Human-Centric Computing
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Using HCI techniques to design a more usable programming system
2002 IEEE International Conferences on Human-Centric Computing
2011
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A Declarative Approach to Event-Handling in Visual Programming Languages
1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
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First Steps In Programming: A Rationale for Attention Investment Models
2002 IEEE International Symposium on Human-Centric Computing
2010
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The specification of visual language syntax
1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
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Extending UML for Modeling of Multimedia Applications
1999 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
2009
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Prograph: A Step towards Liberating Programming from Textual Conditioning
1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages
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1999 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages
2008
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HI-VISUAL: A Language Supporting Visual Interaction in Programming
1984 Workshop on Visual Languages
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Diagram Editing with Hypergraph Parser Support
1997 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages