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SIG: Gender-Inclusive Software: What We Know About Building It

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Margaret M. Burnett,

Elizabeth F. Churchill,

Michael J. LeeAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 857 - 860

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2727689

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Recent research has shown that some software that is intended to be gender-neutral is not, in fact, equally inclusive to males and females. But little is known about how to design software in a gender-aware fashion, and existing research on gender differences relevant to software design is scattered across at least five different academic fields (e.g., psychology, computer science, education, communications, and women's studies). This research SIG will bring together female and male academics, industry researchers, and practitioners with three goals in mind: (1) to build community across research/practice boundaries; (2) to pool our knowledge on promising practices for design and evaluation of software from a gender perspective; and (3) to begin to build a shared, on-line research and literature base to support solid, well-informed progress on this important issue.

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Bellini RStrohmayer AAlabdulqader EAhmed ASpiel KBardzell SBalaam MMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)Feminist HCIExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3170427.3185370(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3170427.3185370

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SIG: Gender-Inclusive Software: What We Know About Building It
1. Human-centered computing

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2702613

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Bellini RStrohmayer AAlabdulqader EAhmed ASpiel KBardzell SBalaam MMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)Feminist HCIExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3170427.3185370(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3170427.3185370

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