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API usability: report on special interest group at CHI

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John M. Daughtry,

Jeffrey StylosAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 34, Issue 4

Pages 27 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543429

Published: 06 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The 27th annual International Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) convened in Boston, MA (USA) from April 4-9, 2009. Included in this year's technical program was a special interest group (SIG) meeting on API usability. This report summarizes the SIG, emphasizing the primary takeaways, which include a greater understanding of the types of APIs, case studies, and a place to share our multi-disciplinary results.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 34, Issue 4

July 2009

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1543405

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