I'm consistently surprised by the lack of depth in programming psychology work. Search Google Scholar for "program readability", see all top-cited work. Consistently, the only methodology: literally ask people whether they think code is readable, and check for agreement.
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A lot of the early programming/psychology stuff had the same issue, when HCI was very lab-focused and less in-the-wild. Studies like http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.3758/BF03197568 … could tease out differences in novice vs. expert memory structures, but no one then used this data to make lives better.
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Very interesting, thanks!
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cognitive psychology. PhD