1. The End-User Software Engineering Vision Margaret Burnett Professor, Oregon State University Project Director, EUSES Consortium http://eusesconsortium.org/

2. End-User Software Engineering Research Question Is it possible to bring the benefits of rigorous software engineering methodologies to end users?

3. The EUSES Consortium: End Users Shaping Effective Software A consortium of researchers from: Oregon State Drexel Penn State Carnegie Mellon Nebraska Cambridge (UK) more members soon...

4. End-User Software Engineering Research If we build it, will they come? Types via informal annotations Sources & meta-sources of faults by end users Incremental analyses for immediate communication Software Engineering and Languages HCI and Psychology Education

5. Example: WYSIWYT √: User Notices a Correct Value... Cell turns more blue (more “tested”). At any time, user can check off correct value. Testing also flows upstream, marking other affected cells too.

6. Example: WYSIWYT X: User Notices an Incorrect Value... User notices that this value is wrong and “X”s it out. And this one’s wrong too. The formula error is in one of these red cells -- probably the darkest.

7. What Others Think of the Importance of this Research Interest by major companies: AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, JPMorgan/Chase,... Funding > $4 million (NSF, several grants). Media attention: Public radio: “Imagine That!” NSF press release. PC Magazine. CIO Magazine. IEEE Software editorial. CNN.com, CBS.com....

8. Building a Research Community Community-building events: Workshops, SIGs, BOFs, Dagstuhl Joint efforts, bringing together a mix of subdisciplines. Building a research area: Open problems, mapping the territory. Awareness and citing of each others’ papers: Necessary for credibility. Necessary for progress.

9. The End-User Software Engineering Vision Margaret Burnett Professor, Oregon State University Project Director, EUSES Consortium http://eusesconsortium.org/