From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge. The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic.
Topics: Designing Technologies that Accelerate Human Learning, Better Ways to Teach and Learn Computational Thinking, Interfaces that Induce or Support Creativity, AI/ML in Support of Human Cognition, Designing for Inclusion and DiversityCognitive Amplifiers for People with Special Needs, Collaboration Support for Creative Work, Understanding Dynamics of Technology-Empowered Teams, Computer Techniques to Teach Creativity & Problem Solving, Fostering Creativity Through Coding, Understanding Coding as Creative Problem Solving, Visual Languages to Support Workflows for Problem Solving