4 papers
Semantic Neighborhood Density and Eye Gaze Time in Human Programmer Attention
Robert Wallace, Emory Michaels, Yu Huang +1
This paper studies the relationship between human eye gaze time on words in source code and the Semantic Neighborhood Density (SND) of those words. Human eye gaze time is a popular…
Human Attention During Localization of Memory Bugs in C Programs
Emory Smith, Emory Michaels, Robert Wallace +3
This paper presents a study of human visual attention during localization of memory bugs in C. Human visual attention refers to the mechanical processes by which we selectively pro…
AI-Mediated Code Comment Improvement
Maria Dhakal, Chia-Yi Su, Robert Wallace +5
This paper describes an approach to improve code comments along different quality axes by rewriting those comments with customized Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools. We cond…
Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization
Robert Wallace, Aakash Bansal, Zachary Karas +4
Abridged: Programmer attention represents the visual focus of programmers on parts of the source code in pursuit of programming tasks. We conducted an in-depth human study with 10…