<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="il"><div><span class="il">Apologies if you receive this message more than once. If you could please forward this message onto your colleagues who you think might be interested in this workshop; that would be much appreciated!</span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">Many thanks and we hope to see some people from the ECOOP community at PLATEAU this year.</span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">If you are interested in this kind of research and will be attending ECOOP then we would also recommend attending a related workshop:</span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">Empirical Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques (ESCOT 2011) </span></div><div><span class="il"><a href="http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/escot2011/">http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/escot2011/</a> </span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">If you are also from Europe then Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) is quite related to our PLATEAU workshop.</span></div><div><span class="il"><a href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ppig2011/">http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ppig2011/</a></span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">All the best.</span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">Kind regards,</span></div><div><span class="il">Craig, Shane, Emerson</span></div></span></div><div><span class="il"><br></span></div><div><span class="il">Call</span> <span class="il">for</span> <span class="il">Papers</span><br><br> PLATEAU 2011<br><br> Third Workshop on<br>Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU)<br> in conjunction with SPLASH/Onward! 2011<br> October 22-27, 2011 (Portland, OR)<br><br> <a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome" target="_blank">http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome</a><br><br>SUBMISSION SITE<br><br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau11" title="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau2011">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau2011</a><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Submission Deadline August 12<br>Notification September 12<br>Registration October 22<br>Workshop October 24<br><br>SCOPE<br><br>Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software<br>effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software<br>depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop<br>with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and<br>techniques <span class="il">for</span> evaluating the usability of languages and language<br>tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large<br>space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain;<br>allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and<br>restricting programs to make them more safe and secure.<br><br>We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the programming<br>language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities<br>to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and<br>usability of programming languages and tools. We are also interested<br>in the input of other members of the programming research community<br>working on related areas, such as aspects, refactoring, design patterns,<br>program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization,<br>end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. Some<br>particular areas of interest are:<br><br>- empirical studies of programming languages<br>- methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation<br>- software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language<br>- user studies of language features and software engineering tools<br>- visual techniques <span class="il">for</span> understanding programming languages<br>- critical comparisons of programming paradigms<br></div><div>- tools to support evaluating programming languages</div><div>- psychology of programming</div><br><div>KEYNOTE SPEAKER<br><br>Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University<br><br></div><div><br>SUBMISSIONS<br><br>Participants are invited to submit a paper describing their on going work. </div><div>We will accept <span class="il">papers</span> (from 4 to 6 pages) that describe</div><div>work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and<br>goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained,<br>question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose<br>speculative new approaches. Longer submissions will be considered, but<br>all submissions must be fewer than 10 pages.<br><br>Submissions and final <span class="il">papers</span> should be formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN<br>10 point format. Templates <span class="il">for</span> Word and LaTeX are available at<br><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm</a>; this site also<br>contains links to useful information on how to write effective<br>submissions.<br><br>Papers may be submitted to one of two tracks: archival and non-archival. <br>Accepted archival papers will be published in full in the ACM digital library.<br>Accepted non-archival papers will be made available as a tech report on<br>the PLATEAU website. All authors are also asked to prepare a presentation to <br>support their papers. All accepted submissions will be made available through <br>the PLATEAU website prior to the workshop. Workshop participants are <br>encouraged to have read the position <span class="il">papers</span> before attending the workshop.<br></div><br>ORGANIZERS<br><br>Shane Markstrum - Google, USA<br>Craig Anslow - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>Emerson Murphy-Hill - North Carolina State University, USA<br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br><div>Jeff Carver - University of Alabama, USA<br>Rob DeLine - Microsoft Research, USA<br>Jonathan Edwards - MIT, USA<br></div><div>Matthias Hauswirth - University of Lugano, Switzerland<br>Donna Malayeri - Microsoft, USA<br>Shane Markstrum - Google, USA <br>Emerson Murphy-Hill - North Carolina State University, USA <br>James Noble - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand </div><div>Portia O'Callaghan - MathWorks, USA<br>Marian Petre - The Open University, England<br>Caitlin Sadowski - University of California Santa Cruz, USA<br>Alessandro Warth - Viewpoints Research Institute, USA</div><br><div><a href="http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome" target="_blank">http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome</a><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></body></html>