research-article

Sketching software in the wild

Authors:

Josh TenenbergAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 1237 - 1240

Published: 18 May 2013 Publication History

Abstract

This paper argues that understanding how professional software developers use diagrams and sketches in their work is an underexplored terrain. We illustrate this by summarizing a number of studies on sketching and diagramming across a variety of domains, and arguing for their limited generalizability. In order to develop further insight, we describe the design of a research project we are embarking upon and its grounding theoretical assumptions.

References

[1]

G. Booch, “Draw Me a Picture,” IEEE Software, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 6–7, Jan. 2011.

Digital Library

[2]

S. Greenberg, “Context as a Dynamic Construct,” Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 257–268, Dec. 2001.

Digital Library

[3]

S. Bresciani, A. F. Blackwell, and M. Eppler, “A Collaborative Dimensions Framework: Understanding the Mediating Role of Conceptual Visualizations in Collaborative Knowledge Work,” Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), pp. 364–364, Jan. 2008.

Digital Library

[4]

M. Cherubini, G. Venolia, R. DeLine, and A. J. Ko, “Let’s Go to the Whiteboard: How and Why Software Developers Use Drawings,” in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’07, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 557– 566.

Digital Library

[5]

G. Salomon, Ed., Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

[6]

P. Robbins and M. Aydede, Eds., Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Digital Library

[7]

A. Clark, Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. Oxford University Press, 2008.

[8]

A. Clark, “Natural-Born Cyborgs?,” Lecture notes in computer science., no. 2117, pp. 17 – 24, 2001.

Digital Library

[9]

C. Van Leeuwen, I. Verstijnen, and P. Hekkert, “Common unconscious dynamics underlie common conscious effects: a case study in the interactive nature of perception and creation,” in Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines, S. Jordan, Ed. University Press of America, 1999.

[10]

G. Goldschmidt, “The dialectics of sketching,” Creativity Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 123 – 143, 1991.

[11]

E. Hutchins, “Learning to Navigate,” in Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context, S. Chaiklin and J. Lave, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 35–63.

[12]

H. H. Clark and S. E. Brennan, “Grounding in communication,” Perspectives on socially shared cognition, vol. 13, no. 1991, pp. 127–149, 1991.

[13]

A. Menezes and B. Lawson, “How designers perceive sketches,” Design Studies, vol. 27, pp. 571–585, 2006.

[14]

J. Zhang, “The nature of external representations in problem solving,” Cognitive Science, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 179–217, 1997.

[15]

M. Chi, R. Glaser, and M. Farr, Eds., The nature of expertise. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.

[16]

D. Feldon, “The Implications of Research on Expertise for Curriculum and Pedagogy,” Educational Psychology Review, vol. 19, pp. 91–110, 2007.

[17]

D. A. Harper, Working knowledge : skill and community in a small shop. Berkley ; Oxford: University of California Press, 1992, 1987, pp. x, 224p.

[18]

M. Rose, The mind at work. Viking, 2004.

[19]

H. M. Collins, “Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire,” Social Studies of Science, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 71–85, 2001.

[20]

D. Socha and S. Walter, “Is Designing Software Different From Designing Other Things?,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 540–550, 2006.

[21]

F. Brooks, “No silver bullet: essence and accident in software engineering,” in Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference, 1986, pp. 1069–1076.

[22]

A. Baker, A. van der Hoek, H. Ossher, and M. Petre, “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Studying Professional Software Design,” IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 28–33, Jan. 2012.

Digital Library

[23]

M. Petre, A. van der Hoek, and A. Baker, “Editorial,” Design Studies, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 533–544, Nov. 2010.

[24]

U. Dekel and J. Herbsleb, “Notation and Representation in Collaborative Object-Oriented Design: An Observational Study,” in OOPSLA ’07: Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications, 2007, pp. 261–280.

Digital Library

[25]

W.-M. Roth, Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

[26]

M. Szymanski and J. Whalen, Eds., Making Work Visible: Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

[27]

C. Heath, Video in qualitative research: analysing social interaction in everyday life. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2010.

[28]

B. B. Jordan and A. Henderson, “Interacton Analysis: Foundations and Practice,” The Journal of the Learning Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 39–103, 1995.

[29]

C. Geertz, “Deep Hanging Out,” The New York Review of Books, Oct-1998.

Cited By

Tenenberg J(2018)COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCHComputational makingACM Inroads10.1145/31778619:1(22-23)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3177861
Socha DSutanto KBegel APrikladnicki RDittrich Yde Souza CSarma AAthavale S(2015)The "pair" as a problematic unit of analysis for pair programmingProceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.5555/2819321.2819332(64-70)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819321.2819332
Socha DTenenberg JBegel APrikladnicki RDittrich Yde Souza CSarma AAthavale S(2015)Sketching and conceptions of software designProceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.5555/2819321.2819331(57-63)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819321.2819331
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Sketching software in the wild
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management

Recommendations

Sketching and Conceptions of Software Design
CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

In this paper, we describe a study of sketching and design within a software organization in which hundreds of hours of video of development activity in situ were captured and analyzed. We use the study as a basis from which to question how researcher ...
Wild in the Laboratory: A Discussion of Plans and Situated Actions
Special Issue of “The Turn to The Wild”

Suchman’s book Plans and Situated Actions has been influential in HCI (Human Computer Interaction). The book is often discussed with reference to ethnographic fieldwork, sometimes being cited as if it were a field study. However, the book uses examples ...
Engineering Graphics Technical Sketching and AutoCAD 2009

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

ICSE '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering

May 2013

1561 pages

ISBN:9781467330763

General Chair:
David Notkin,
Program Chairs:
Betty H. C. Cheng,
Klaus Pohl

Sponsors

SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

Publisher

IEEE Press

Publication History

Published: 18 May 2013

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ICSE '13

Sponsor:

SIGSOFT

ICSE '13: 35th International Conference on Software Engineering

May 18 - 26, 2013

CA, San Francisco, USA

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 276 of 1,856 submissions, 15%

Upcoming Conference

ICSE 2025

2025 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

April 26 - May 3, 2025

Ottawa , ON , Canada

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

4
Total Citations
View Citations
145
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)1
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 19 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Tenenberg J(2018)COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCHComputational makingACM Inroads10.1145/31778619:1(22-23)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3177861
Socha DSutanto KBegel APrikladnicki RDittrich Yde Souza CSarma AAthavale S(2015)The "pair" as a problematic unit of analysis for pair programmingProceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.5555/2819321.2819332(64-70)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819321.2819332
Socha DTenenberg JBegel APrikladnicki RDittrich Yde Souza CSarma AAthavale S(2015)Sketching and conceptions of software designProceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.5555/2819321.2819331(57-63)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819321.2819331
Serebrenik AMens TCrnkovic I(2015)Challenges in Software Ecosystems ResearchProceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops10.1145/2797433.2797475(1-6)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2797433.2797475

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents