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Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Technologies in End-User Development Literature

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The fundamental ideas core to the field of end-user development (EUD) emerged in the early 1990s with influential authors advocating for the need for modifiable software that could be crafted by the end user. The modern technology landscape that emerged in the intervening years is vastly different – with technology interwoven into every aspect of our lives and becoming increasingly malleable. In pursuit of building our understanding of what technology tools currently demonstrate EUD concepts and how this has changed over time, this work reports on the results of an assessment of 73 research articles from EUD publication venues, from 2004 to 2016, which emphasize the original development or extension of a technology tool. The technology tools largely fell into the categories of programming environments and frameworks, web and information authoring tools, mashup-creation and spreadsheet tools, with a diverse range of relatively infrequent tool types observed as well.

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    Monica G. Maceli

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Simone Barbosa

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  3. C.N.R. - ISTI , Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Paternò

  4. City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Simone Stumpf

  5. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Valtolina

Appendix A – List of Papers Reviewed

Appendix A – List of Papers Reviewed

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Maceli, M.G. (2017). Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Technologies in End-User Development Literature. In: Barbosa, S., Markopoulos, P., Paternò, F., Stumpf, S., Valtolina, S. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58735-6_4

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