PLATEAU2025
15th annual workshop on the intersection of HCI and PL
@ Northeastern University, Boston MA USA February 17-18, 2025
102 West Village H

PLATEAU 2025 Program

PLATEAU will take place on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, MA on February 17-18, 2025. Conference events will be held at West Village H in Room #102.

Day 1, February 17th
Title Time (EST)
Welcome and Intro
10:00 AM–10:15 AM
Interactivity and Animation
Bloom: Simplifying Interactive Diagram Development with Optimization Constraints,
Griffin Teller, Joshua Sunshine
10:15 AM–10:40 AM
Merlin: A Markup Language for Algorithm Animations,
Shu Wang, April Wang
10:40 AM–11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM–11:45 AM
Visual Aids
Towards Better Formal Methods Visualizations,
Yiliang Liang, Avinash Palliyil, Eunsuk Kang, Joshua Sunshine
11:45 AM–12:20 PM
Code Style Sheets,
Sam Cohen, Ravi Chugh
12:20 PM–12:45 PM
Lunch
12:45 PM–2:00 PM
Notebooks
From Workbook to Notebook: Collaborative Data Story Authoring with Spreadsheet,
Zeyu Xiong, Behnood Masoudi, Catherine Schmit, April Wang
2:00 PM–2:30 PM
Exploring Support for Lightweight DSLs in Jupyter Notebooks,
Kevin Yang, Emma Tosch
2:30 PM–3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 PM–3:30 PM
Education
Teachers Consideration of Trade-offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students,
Emma R. Dodoo, Tamara Nelson-Fromm, Mark Guzdial
3:30 PM–4:05 PM
Questions Before Answers? A Comparison of Codebase Chatbots and Tutorials for Codebase Learning,
Shaokang Jiang, Jimmy Koppel, Michael Coblenz
4:05 PM–4:40 PM
Day 1 Wrap Up!
4:40 PM–5:00 PM

Day 2, February 18th
Title Time (EST)
Program Reasoning
Designing Proof Deautomation for Rocq,
Jessica Shi, Cassia Torczon, Harrison Goldstein, Andrew Head, Benjamin Pierce
9:30 AM–10:05 AM
Constraints versus Structures in Type Systems,
Hemant Gouni, Will Crichton, Jonathan Aldrich
10:05 AM–10:40 AM
Coffee Break
10:40 AM–11:10 AM
Keynote
The Human Factors of Formal Methods
Shriram Krishnamurthi
11:10 AM–12:10 PM
Lunch
12:10 PM–1:20 PM
DSLs
HiLT: A Library for Generating Human-in-the-Loop Data Transformation GUIs,
Sora Kanosue, Xiaorui Liu, Parker Ziegler, Sarah E. Chasins
1:20 PM–1:55 PM
The Usability Argument for ROS-based Robot Architectural Description Languages,
Paulo Canelas, Bradley Schmerl, Alcides Fonseca, Christopher S. Timperley
1:55 PM–2:20 PM
Coffee Break
2:20 PM–2:40 PM
Workshop Wrap-up
Community Goal-Setting - Building an Annotated Bibliography of Programming Languages and Human-Computer Interaction Papers
2:40 PM–3:40 PM
Important Dates
December 4th, 2024 (AoE time)
Paper Submission
February 17-18, 2025
Workshop
Mentors
Titus Barik
Apple
Will Crichton
Brown University
Michael Coblenz
UC San Diego
Thomas D. LaToza
George Mason University
Joe Gibbs Politz
UC San Diego
Harry Goldstein
University of Maryland
Andy Gordon
Cogna
Mark Guzdial
University of Michigan
Andrew Head
University of Pennsylvania
Toby Li
Notre Dame
Tim Nelson
Brown University
Steve Oney
University of Michigan
Hila Peleg
Technion
Mark Santolucito
Barnard
Marsha Chechik
University of Toronto
Organizing Committee
Jon Bell
Northeastern University
Sarah E. Chasins
University of California, Berkeley
Elena Glassman
Harvard University
Joshua Sunshine
Carnegie Mellon University
Student Organizers
Matthew Davis
Carnegie Mellon University
Sam Estep
Carnegie Mellon University
Hwei-Shin Harriman
Carnegie Mellon University
Jenny Liang
Carnegie Mellon University
Justin Lubin
University of California - Berkeley
Ian McCormack
Carnegie Mellon University
Raven Rothkopf
University of California - San Diego