Ava Reetta Heinonen
Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
T313 Dept. Computer Science
Doctoral Researcher
Professorship Fagerholm Fabian
Full researcher profile
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About me
Doctoral candidate at the department of computer science. I am interested in the psychology of programming. For my thesis I study program comprehension focusing on the comprehension of cryptographic APIs in professional software engineering settings.
Email
ava.heinonen@aalto.fi
Research groups
- Professorship Fagerholm Fabian, Doctoral Researcher
Publications
Investigating Students' Programming Plan Knowledge with Time-Constrained Code Recall Tasks
Ava Heinonen, Reetta Puska, Francisco Castro, Juha Sorva, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas
2025
IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review
Ava Heinonen, Bettina Lehtelä, Arto Hellas, Fabian Fagerholm
2023
Information and Software Technology
Time-constrained Code Recall Tasks for Monitoring the Development of Programming Plans
Ava Heinonen, Arto Hellas
2023
SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Understanding initial API comprehension
Ava Heinonen, Fabian Fagerholm
2023
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2023
Exploring the instructional efficiency of representation and engagement in online learning materials
Ava Heinonen, Arto Hellas
2020
UKICER 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research