Cognitive Dimensions of Notations
10th Anniversary Workshop

Introduction

This research workshop marks the 10th anniversary of Green and Petre completing their canonical paper on CDs. The papers discussed at this workshop address the current state of the art in CDs research, techniques and applications, and consider future developments in the field. Revised versions of these papers will be published in 2006, in a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, marking the 10th anniversary of the most widely cited original research paper that has been published in JVLC. The 10th anniversary workshop took place on September 24th 2005, in Dallas Texas. It was a satellite event of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05).

Workshop participants and contributions

• Understanding Structural Misfits between User and System: CASSM as an Approach to Reasoning about Selected Cognitive Dimensions
  Ann Blandford, Thomas Green
  University College London and University of Leeds
• Experiences with Cognitive Dimensions
  Margaret Burnett, Jason Dagit, Joseph Lawrance, Laura Beckwith, Cory Kissinger
  Oregon State University
• The Cognitive Dimensions and Security
  Luke Church
  PolyMorphiX Networks
• Describing and Measuring API Usability with the Cognitive Dimensions
  Steven Clarke
  Microsoft Corporation
• Cognitive Dimensions Tradeoffs in Tangible User Interface Design
  Darren Edge, Alan Blackwell
  Cambridge University
• Exploring a Connection between HCI Patterns and the Cognitive Dimensions Framework
  Sally Fincher
  University of Kent
• DCCD: Dark Corners of Cognitive Dimensions
  Thomas Green
  University of Leeds
• Extending the "Cognitive Dimensions" Framework with a "Communicative Dimensions" Framework
  Christopher Hundhausen
  Washington State University
• Extending the Accessibility of the Cognitive Dimensions Framework for Researchers and End Users
  Maria Kutar, Yun Chen
  University of Salford
• Relating Cognitive Dimensions to Expert Software Development
  Marian Petre
  Open University
• Cognitive Dimensions of Animated Representations
  Sara Price
  Institute of Education
• Fits and Misfits - Comparing Systematic Dimension Models
  Chris Roast, Andrew Dearden, Babak Khazaei
  Sheffield Hallam University
• Cognitive Dimensions and End-User Debugging
  Susan Wiedenbeck
  Drexel University
• Venom: A Visual Exploratory Notation for Object-based Multimedia
  (includes presentation)
  Mark Wilson, Mary Tate
  Victoria University of Wellington and Unisys New Zealand
• Cognitive Dimensions and Multiple Notations
  (includes notes and visual)
  Tim Wright and Andy Cockburn
  Victoria University, Canterbury University