IS-EUD 2013 - Fourth International Symposium on End-User Development

Now more than ever users can create their own software in contexts chosen by themselves, at work, in education, for leisure, etc., by techniques suchas modding, mashing, and tailoring. Spreadsheets, databases, web mash-ups, as well as content management systems and software products like ERP systems provide the tools for End-User Development (EUD). The users of these tools are non-professional software developers, who create, modify and extend a software artifact. Among the challenges facing EUD are:
Software process: End users often lack education in software development, in particular software project management and program verification; in these contexts users must tackle the challenges faced by professional software developers. Researchers have begun to develop tools for end users to help them reduce costly errors.
Multidisciplinary cooperation: Cooperation between users, end-user developers and software engineers are crucial to inform design-time variation and use-time evolution of software in the user organization as well as for changing work practices. EUD research includes studies of organizational end-user tailoring to identify the cooperation and sharing around the evolution of software products and organizational IT-infrastructures.
Use-orientation technologies: Technical design is required for orchestrating evolution of the basic software, customizations and configurations. Technical design approaches like component-based design, aspect oriented programming, or domain specific languages are promising starting points, but they need to be further developed to accommodate the needs of organizational end-user development.
The International Symposium on End-User Development brings together researchers and practitioners working in the field of EUD. We invite participation within the above themes. Whereas programming by non-professional developers (e.g. end-user programming) is one key aspect of EUD, EUD also includes user studies and identification of cooperation patterns, e.g. the collective understanding and sense-making of use problems and solution alternatives, the interactions among end users around new configurations, and delegation patterns that may also partly involve professional designers. Finally, EUD includes end-user software engineering: efforts by end users to monitor or improve the quality of the software they create. Thus, EUD brings together researchers that aim at synergies between multiple disciplines, including Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Artificial Intelligence.

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