Colour Beads Visual Representation of Compositional Relational Programs

• Building on a compositional relational programming language Combilog, code visualization with a motivation of flexible practical applications is explored. Following from earlier work based on Higraph diagram formalizations, a new coloured and human perception-centric iteration of visual representation is introduced, and its effects on understanding compositional relational programs are analysed by means of a user study. Results showed that visuals helped participants to solve coderelated questions 46% faster with 69% less errors.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Mänsklig interaktion med IKT (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications -- Human Aspects of ICT (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Information Systems (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

Keyword

computer languages

programming languages

visual programming

logic programming

relational programming

human computer interaction

color beads

colour beads visual representation

human perception-centric programming

visualization

visual systems

higraph

declarative programming

Datavetenskap med inriktning mot människa-datorinteraktion

Computer Science with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction

Datavetenskap

Computer Science

Informationssystem

Information Systems

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