The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs

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Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011, pp. 3373-3382. ISBN 978-1-4503-0228-9. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1978942.1979445
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on the quality of the resulting system. So, ensuring that developers can make the most out of them is an important challenge. However standard usability evaluation methods as known from HCI have limitations in grasping the interaction between developer and API as most IDEs (essentially the GUI) capture only part of it. In this paper we present the Concept Map method to study the usability of an API over time. This allows us to elicit the mental model of a programmer when using an API and thereby identify usability issues and learning barriers and their development over time.

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API usability, evaluation method, longitudinal, concept maps
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The 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11, 7. Mai 2011 - 12. Mai 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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ISO 690GERKEN, Jens, Hans-Christian JETTER, Michael ZĂ–LLNER, Martin MADER, Harald REITERER, 2011. The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs. The 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11. Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7. Mai 2011 - 12. Mai 2011. In: Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011, pp. 3373-3382. ISBN 978-1-4503-0228-9. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1978942.1979445
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@inproceedings{Gerken2011conce-18650,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1145/1978942.1979445},
  title={The concept maps method as a tool to evaluate the usability of APIs},
  isbn={978-1-4503-0228-9},
  publisher={ACM Press},
  address={New York, New York, USA},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11},
  pages={3373--3382},
  author={Gerken, Jens and Jetter, Hans-Christian and Zöllner, Michael and Mader, Martin and Reiterer, Harald}
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