Ava Reetta Heinonen

Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
T313 Dept. Computer Science
Doctoral Researcher
Professorship Fagerholm Fabian
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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.

Research groups

  • Professorship Fagerholm Fabian, Doctoral Researcher

Publications

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