Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field Investigation

被引：55
作者：
Burnett, Margaret [1 ]
Peters, Anicia [1 ]
Hill, Charles [1 ]
Elarief, Noha [2 ]
机构：
[1] Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[2] Hewlett Packard Corp, Corvallis, OR USA
来源：
34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016 | 2016年
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
GenderMag; gender; usability; field study; SELF-EFFICACY; ANXIETY;
D O I：
10.1145/2858036.2858274
中图分类号：
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号：
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要：
Gender inclusiveness in computing settings is receiving a lot of attention, but one potentially critical factor has mostly been overlooked-software itself. To help close this gap, we recently created GenderMag, a systematic inspection method to enable software practitioners to evaluate their software for issues of gender-inclusiveness. In this paper, we present the first real-world investigation of software practitioners` ability to identify gender-inclusiveness issues in software they create/maintain using this method. Our investigation was a multiple-case field study of software teams at three major U.S. technology organizations. The results were that, using GenderMag to evaluate software, these software practitioners identified a surprisingly high number of gender-inclusiveness issues: 25% of the software features they evaluated had gender-inclusiveness issues.
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页码：2586 / 2598
页数：13
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