Exploring an Online Community of Blind Programmers by Using Topic Modeling and Network Analysis
Jaihyun Park,
JooYoung Seo,
Jae Young Lee
Abstract:Much work has been carried out to highlight the accessibility challenges of blind programmers. Yet, relatively little has been known about how blind programmers help each other to solve problems. We present a data‐driven approach to explore collaborative problem‐solving of users in the Program‐l community of, by, and for blind programmers. We collected 8,344 longitudinal email threads from 778 users from 2004 through 2022 to observe the dynamics of collaborative problem‐solving among blind programmers. Our emb… Show more
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