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e sequence of activities and the interleaving of those activities for each session var-
ied, which can be attributed to individual dierences in approaches to problem solving,
expertise, or prior experiences. In order to analyze the sequence of activities (RQ 2.2), we
split the time line into quarters (see Table 10.8). For the Adobe and AmberPoint sessions,
each quarter was 30 minutes, while in the Intuit session each quarter was 15 minutes since
they took only an hour for the complete session. We excluded the top ve activities i ...