Request for unpublished studies on mental models formed during program comprehension

[leahb...@gmail.com]

Dear Colleagues,

I am conducting a literature review on studies that analyse the mental representations formed by programmers during program comprehension and would appreciate your assistance.

I would be most grateful if you could send me any unpublished empirical studies that you have conducted using program comprehension tasks (maintenance, enhancment, debugging, studying, etc.) to analyse the mental representations formed by programmers. These studies could be from a dissertation, a report, an unpublished manuscript, etc., as long as they relate to mental representations formed by programmers during program comprehension.

If you have anything of relevance, please send electronic material to leah.b...@unb.ca.  

Please feel free to forward this request along to other colleagues as well.

Best regards,

Leah Bidlake 

PhD Candidate

University of New Brunswick

(Supervised by Eric Aubanel and Daniel Voyer)