WRITINGS
NISHINO Hiroki
How Can a DSL for Expert End-UsersBe Designed for Better Usability? :A Case Study in Computer Music
Edition: SIGCHI 2012, on line, http://nus.academia.edu/HirokiNishino/Papers
Date: 2012
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Origin: SINGAPORE
Type of media: Article
Language: English
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Programming languages have been rarely discussedfrom the perspective of user-centered design whencompared to GUIs or Human Interface Devices. We de-scribe our case study in user-centered design of a do-main-specific language (DSL) for computer music.Since the potential usability problems of a DSL is large-ly unforeseeable in the early phase of the design, wetook an approach that begins with the analysis of theusability problems in an existing DSL and then use theanalysis for redesign of the DSL and design of a newDSL. The frameworks provided by the previous HCIstudies are introduced into the design process. Such anapproach is also valuable for claim-evidence corre-spondences for usability claims, which have been lack-ing in language design today