Christopher A. Bogart

I'm a graduate student in computer science at Oregon State University.

Advisor: Margaret Burnett.
Email: bogart (a) eecs.oregonstate.edu
My resume

Research Group

My research group works on HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) issues associated with programming languages, especially languages and environments aimed at end-user programmers.

Research Interests

Domain Specific Languages for cognitive modeling. Natural Interaction for Debugging: How do people naturally describe anomalous behaviors of software, of agents, or of cognitive models? How do they iteratively refine that description in conversation with another person? Can we design more natural debugging tools around these interaction patterns? I'm interested in studying how humans interact with each other to refine their understanding of a concept, and applying that interaction model to the design of more natural interaction languages for debugging.

Published Papers

Predicting Reuse of End-User Web Macro Scripts, Chris Scaffidi, Chris Bogart, Margaret Burnett, Allen Cypher, Brad Myers, and Mary Shaw, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Corvallis, OR, Sept. 2009, pp. 93-100.

End-User Programming in the Wild: A Field Study of CoScripter Scripts, Christopher Bogart, Margaret Burnett, Allen Cypher, and Christopher Scaffidi, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, Sept. 2008, pp. 39-46.

Can Feature Design Reduce the Gender Gap in End-User Software Development Environments? Valentina Grigoreanu, Jill Cao, Todd Kulesza, Christopher Bogart, Kyle Rector, Margaret Burnett, and Susan Wiedenbeck, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, Sept. 2008, pp. 149-156.

Software Visualization for End-User Programmers: Trial Period Obstacles, Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Margaret Burnett, and Christopher Bogart, ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, Sept. 2008, pp. 135-144.

Projects

Here is an OpenGL implementation of the board game Khet for CS550, fall 2008. There are executables for mac and windows.

For CS523, winter 2009, Calculating Frobenius numbers with Boolean Toeplitz matrix multiplication. You can only buy Chicken McNuggets in boxes of 6, 9, or 20. Sadly, there's no way to buy exactly 43 nuggets. The paper is about a faster way to calculate the largest number of McNuggets you can't buy.

Blogging

I have a blog called Sambangu.