An Open Source Interactive Visual Analytics Tool for Comparative Programming Comprehension

This paper proposes an open source visual analytics tool consisting of several views and perspectives on eye movement data collected during code reading tasks when writing computer programs. Hence the focus of this work is on code and program comprehension. The source code is shown as a visual stimu...

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