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In-Situ Visual Programming Brandstätter, Ulrich Schenkenfelder, Bernhard Visual programming End-user programming Programming paradigm Most Visual Programming Environments (VPEs) available today aim to make software development more accessible for specific domains, such as automation, business intelligence, data science, education, or real-time media processing. In their niches, VPEs offer several advantages over traditional text-based programming, including shorter training times, immediate visual feedback, and lower barriers to entry. With this work, we introduce In-Situ Visual Programming (ISVP), a novel programming paradigm to enable users to create, modify, and contribute to software via visual programming in physical contexts. User-created and pre-built programs can be attached to and interlinked with physical objects - in an Augmented Reality (AR) environment. We believe that the spatial and contextual proximity of processing code and physical objects will make software development more intuitive, and we argue this position based on two model use cases. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Ulrich Brandstätter and Bernhard Schenkenfelder 2025 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 134, Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.7 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242916 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.7 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode