A User Study to Inform the Design of the Obsidian Blockchain DSL
Blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and Hyperledger facilitate transactions between parties that have not established trust. Increased interest in these platforms has motivated the design of programming languages such as Solidity, which allow users to create blockchain programs. However, there have been several recent instances where Solidity programs have contained bugs that have been exploited. The security of blockchain programs is especially important given that they commonly involve the exchange of money or other objects with real-world value. We are currently developing a blockchain-based programming language called Obsidian with the goal of minimizing the risk of common security vulnerabilities. We are designing this language in a human-centered way, conducting exploratory user studies with a natural programming approach to inform our design choices. In this paper, we discuss our approach to the design of a user study, as well as our preliminary findings.
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13:30 - 15:00: Language, DSL, and Feature DesignPLATEAU at Regency D Chair(s): Joshua SunshineCarnegie Mellon University | |||
13:30 - 13:50 Talk | A User Study to Inform the Design of the Obsidian Blockchain DSL PLATEAU Celeste BarnabyWesleyan University, Michael CoblenzCarnegie Mellon University, Tyler Etzel, Eliezer KanalCarnegie Mellon University, Joshua SunshineCarnegie Mellon University, Brad A. MyersCarnegie Mellon University, Jonathan AldrichCarnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
13:50 - 14:05 Talk | Programming Robot Manipulators with Tangible Blocks PLATEAU Pre-print | ||
14:05 - 14:25 Talk | Preliminary Analysis of REST API Style Guidelines PLATEAU Lauren MurphyUniversity of Michigan, Tosin AlliyuHaverford College, Mary Beth KeryCarnegie Mellon University, Brad A. MyersCarnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
14:25 - 14:45 Talk | Sympathy for the Devil: Reified Collection of Runtime Errors PLATEAU Tommaso Dal SassoUniversità della Svizzera Italiana, Andrei Chişfeenk, Switzerland, Andrea MocciUniversita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Tudor GîrbaCompuGroup Medical Schweiz AG, Michele LanzaUniversità della Svizzera italiana (USI) Pre-print | ||
14:45 - 15:00 Talk | Preventing Babel: Rectifying the Trend of Programming Language Divergence PLATEAU Pre-print |