Publications

2023

Interactive Textbook: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (non-interactive pdf copy)
Kyle Thayer, Susan Notess (2023)
Demo: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation: Introducing a free interactive online textbook. Kyle Thayer, Susan Notess. SIGCSE 2024. (pre-print pdf)

2021

A Theory of Robust API Knowledge (pre-print pdf)
Kyle Thayer, Sarah E. Chasins, Amy J. Ko (2021)
Blog: Three types of knowledge developers need when using APIs
Dataset: https://github.com/kylethayer/API-Knowledge-Theory-Supplemental-Materials

2020

Dissertation: Practical Knowledge Barriers in Professional Programming (pdf)
Kyle Thayer (2020)
University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

2019

Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models (pdf)
Younghoon Kim, Kyle Thayer, Gabriella Silva Gorsky, Jeffrey Heer (2019)
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis)
Blog post: There Is No “Blue” in Korean: Different Languages Have Different Colors
Visualizations: https://uwdata.github.io/color-naming-in-different-languages/
Dataset: https://github.com/uwdata/color-naming-in-different-languages

2018

The Impact of Culture on Learner Behavior in Visual Debuggers (pdf)
Kyle Thayer, Philip Guo, and Katharina Reinecke (2018)
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC).
Blog post: How Culture Influences Debugging
Dataset: https://github.com/kylethayer/culture-debugging-study-data

Alternative Paths to Computing Careers and Their Role in Broadening Participation
Kathleen J. Lehman, Maureen Doyle, Louise Ann Lyon, and Kyle Thayer (2018)
ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

2017

Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students (pdf)
Kyle Thayer, Amy J. Ko (2017)
ACM Interational Computing Education Research Conference (ICER).
Blog post: What I Learned from Researching Coding Bootcamps

2015

Symmetric Chain Decompositions of Quotients by Wreath Products
D Duffus, K Thayer
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 22 (2), P2. 35

2012

Some quotients of chain products are symmetric chain orders
D Duffus, J McKibben-Sanders, K Thayer
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 19 (2), P46

IFC soft: visual comparison of flow cytometry data using self-organizing maps
K Thayer, L Xiong, V Hertzberg
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (863-866)

2011

Self-Organizing Maps and Wind-Rose Charts in the Visualization and Analysis of Flow Cytometry Data (Master's Thesis)
Thayer, K. (2011)
Emory University