software sketching: understanding and supporting whiteboard design

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Software Sketching:Understanding and Supporting Whiteboard Design

André van der Hoekandre@ics.uci.edu

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Research philosophy

• Practical…

• …with a theoretical basis…

• …and (ideally) educational benefits

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Research areas

environment

collaboration design

education

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Focus of this talk

environment

collaboration design

education

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Design

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Whiteboard design

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Our work

• Understanding whiteboard design– analyzing videos of professional software designers at work– workshop on Studying Professional Software Design (2010)

• Supporting whiteboard design– software design sketching on touch-based devices

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Understanding whiteboard design

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Understanding whiteboard design

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Understanding whiteboard design

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Interleaving design behaviors

• Draw different kinds of diagrams• Draw what they need, and no

more– w.r.t. design at hand– w.r.t. notational conventions

• Refine and evolve sketches– increasing notational convention– appropriate sketches

• Use impromptu notations• Move from one perspective to

another• Move from one alternative to

another

• Move from one level of abstraction to another

• Perform mental simulations• Juxtapose sketches• Review progress• Retreat to previous ideas• Switch between synchronous and

asynchronous work• Explain their sketches to one

another• Bring their work together

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Rotating subject pairs

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Our work

• Understanding whiteboard design– analyzing videos of professional software designers at work– workshop on Studying Professional Software Design (2010)

• Supporting whiteboard design– software design sketching on touch-based devices

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Supporting whiteboard design

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Calico demo

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Experiences thus far

• Day-to-day use

• Classroom

• Laboratory evaluations

• Design meetings by other groups

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Our work – next

• Design documentaries– as a subject of study– as tool support

• Design room– code to sketch– design minders– disruptive technologies– high-resolution design wall

• Beyond software

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Thank you