cognitive psychology. PhD 
"In 30 years since Weiser’s foundational paper on program slicing, ... only 3 out of 111 papers on slicing have considered issues with the use of the techniques in practice."
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Parnin, Chris, and Alessandro Orso. “Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?” ISSTA ’11 https://doi.org/10.1145/2001420.2001445 …
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"The involvement of human subjects is important for program comprehension because this field has the task of conveying information to humans. However, this type of evaluation was used in no more than 6 of 176 articles [on dynamic analysis for comprehension in the last decade]."
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warning: reading about the history of human factors in programming may induce aneurysms
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"Visualization involves, by definition, human actors. Therefore, we expect that validations involve in some way subjects. Actually, a large majority of evaluations are done without subjects (70.1%). Most apply their tool and discuss the resulting views on anecdotal situations."
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