GenderMag: A Method for Evaluating Software's Gender Inclusiveness
Author(s) -
Margaret Burnett,
Simone Stumpf,
Jamie Macbeth,
Stephann Makri,
Laura Beckwith,
Irwin Kwan,
Anicia Peters,
William Jernigan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
interacting with computers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1873-7951
pISSN - 0953-5438
DOI - 10.1093/iwc/iwv046
Subject(s) - software walkthrough , computer science , software , personal software process , software deployment , software development , set (abstract data type) , persona , software engineering , empirical research , variety (cybernetics) , software construction , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , mathematics , statistics , programming language
In recent years, research into gender differences has established that individual differences in how people problem-solve often cluster by gender. Research also shows that these differences have direct implications for software that aims to support users' problem-solving activities, and that much of this software is more supportive of problem-solving processes favored (statistically) more by males...
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