Cognitive Dimensions and Multiple Notations
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چکیده
Cognitive Dimensions is widely used framework to evaluate visual notations. Our research indicates that many programming environments let people program using multiple notations. Unfortunately, Cognitive Dimensions does not provide mechanisms to assess the relationship between the notations. In this paper we introduce our view of how notations are used in programming environments and we perform a preliminary extention of cognitive dimensions so it applies over multiple
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