[pypy-dev] Call for Papers Programming Experience 2016

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Call for Papers

*** Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop ***

July 18 (Mon), 2016
Co-located with ECOOP 2016 in Rome

2016.ecoop.org/track/PX-2016
programming-experience.org/px16

=== Abstract ===

Imagine a software development task. Some sort of requirements and
specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and
programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom.

<crossfade to developers exiting the vast workroom>

The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room
when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and
produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they
create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or
do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring
the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are
they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the
experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency,
literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they
creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and
curiously, is joy relevant to the experience?

Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and
text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the
experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus
of this workshop.

=== Submissions ===

Submissions are solicited for Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16). The
thrust of the workshop is to explore the human experience of
programming—what it feels like to program, or more accurately, what it
should feel like. The technical topics include exploratory programming,
live programming, authoring, representation of active content,
visualization, navigation, modularity mechanisms, immediacy, literacy,
fluency, learning, tool building, and language engineering.

Submissions by academics, professional programmers, and non-professional
programmer are welcome. Submissions can be in any form and format,
including but not limited to papers, presentations, demos, videos,
panels, debates, essays, writers' workshops, and art. Presentation slots
will be between 30 minutes and one hour, depending on quality, form, and
relevance to the workshop. Submissions directed toward publication
should be so marked, and the program committee will engage in peer
review for all such papers. Video publication will be arranged.

All artifacts are to be submitted via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=px16). Papers and essays must
be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the ACM
SIGPLAN Conference Format (10 point font, Times New Roman font family,
numeric citation style, http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/).

There is no page limit on submitted papers and essays. It is, however,
the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and
motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read
all or even a substantial portion of a paper or essay if they do not
find the initial part of it interesting.

=== Format ===

Paper presentations, presentations without papers, live demonstrations,
performances, videos, panel discussions, debates, writers' workshops,
art galleries, dramatic readings.

=== Review ===

Papers and essays labeled as publications will undergo standard peer
review; other submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality;
shepherding will be available.

=== Important dates ===

Submissions: April 15, 2016 (anywhere in the world)
Notifications: May 13, 2016
PX/16: July 18, 2016

=== Publication ===

Papers and essays accepted through peer review will be published as part
of ACM's Digital Library; video publication on Vimeo or other streaming
site; other publication on the PX workshop website.

=== Organizers ===

Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Richard P. Gabriel, Dreamsongs and IBM Almaden Research Center, United 
States
Hidehiko Masuhara, Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute 
of Technology, Japan

=== Program committee ===

Carl Friedrich Bolz, King's College London, United Kingdom
Gilad Bracha, Google, United States
Andrew Bragdon, Twitter, United States
Jonathan Edwards, CDG Labs, United States
Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and 
Technology, Japan
Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, United States
Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, United States
Michael Perscheid, SAP Innovation Center, Germany
Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marcel Taeumel, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Alessandro Warth, SAP Labs, United States