Many end user programming tools lack adequate support for domain-specific data. We will design a lightweight representation for categories of data, called “topes,” and develop simple methods that end users and system administrators can use to define new topes. To evaluate this approach, we will several programming tools so end users can write programs that recognize data as instances of topes and manipulate them accordingly. We expect that these enhancements will help end users produce higher quality software.

Preferred citation: Chris Scaffidi. A Lightweight Model for End Users’ Domain-Specific Data. Doctoral Consortium at IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2006), Brighton, UK, September 2006, pp. 242-243.