End-User Programming is WEIRD: How, Why and What to Do About It

End-user programming (EUP) empowers regular computer users to build and customize software on their own, but we suspect that most developments in the field build on the preferences of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) users. This potentially leaves behind 85 % of the world's population that lives in non-WEIRD societies. To validate whether this suspicion has merit, we conducted a systematic mapping study of the research papers (N=217) published on EUP since 2019. Our results indicate that EUP research is heavily WEIRD-centric. First, over 80% of papers in our final analysis (N=159) had WEIRD-only authorship. Second, 51-94% of papers reporting user studies (N=86) recruited WEIRD participants. Finally, our results suggest that research in EUP is largely driven by the advancements in Industrialized societies. We consider the implications of this WEIRD-ness, and discuss avenues through which to serve more diverse end-user programmcrs.