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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

Software Engineers' Mental Models Debunked By WatChat

WatChat system helps explain complex code by debugging users' mental models through natural language interaction, improving comprehension in user study.

This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Program Comprehension Tool: WatChat Debugs Users' Mental Models to Explain Complex Code. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter.

  
  
  Overview

WatChat is a system that helps explain perplexing programs by debugging users' mental models.
It uses natural language interaction to understand the user's understanding of a program and provide explanations to resolve misunderstandings.
The paper describes the design and evaluation of WatChat, demonstrating its ability to improve us...