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This houses our blog feed where we write about our research findings, review the literature and resources that we read through or watched to make sense of the problem space. It is curated with a fellow design researcher in mind who is trying to understand the spreadsheet environment and want to up to speed on the concepts and relevant literature and resources out there.
Spreadsheet as a Tool for Thought I
Evolution of the Spreadsheet Interface
A tour of how spreadsheets evolved from the ancient clay tablets up until the modern electronic spreadsheets.
The Spreadsheet Interface: A basis for end-user programming (1990)
Review
Bonnie Nardi
James R. Miller
Authors perform a user study on the factors that make the spreadsheet environment successful. They locate it to be combined factors of high attention-investment reward by shields users from the low-level programming aspects while its table-oriented interface allows them to readily model their problem.
How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (2014)
Review
Advait Sarkar
Andrew Gordon
Provides a characterization of the users of spreadsheets according to their drive. Those with high drive vs. low drive users based on their internal motivation and elicits how they differ across three dimensions of discovery, expertise acquisition, and attention investment.
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