Foreword

Welcome to the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC). We proudly continue VL/HCC's tradition as the premier international forum for research on how people learn, express, and understand computational ideas and on the languages, tools, and interventions that can aid people in doing so. Our program this year was diverse as usual, and we also encouraged submissions and keynote talks around low-code / no-code programming systems, especially given the recent popularity of AI coding assistance tools based on large language models (LLMs) such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and others. With these new technologies developing at such a rapid pace, it is an exciting time to be learning and doing programming.