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SUMMARY:Gender HCI - Laura Beckwith\, Oregon State University
DTSTART:20050609T131500Z
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CONTACT:dke22
DESCRIPTION:Although gender differences in a technological world are recei
 ving significant research attention\, much of the research and practice ha
 s aimed at how society and education can impact the successes and retentio
 n of female computer science professionals-but the possibility of gender i
 ssues within software has received almost no attention.  If gender issues 
 exist with some types of software features\, it is possible that accommoda
 ting them by changing these features can increase effectiveness\, but only
  if we know what these issues are.  Our empirical results\, in the context
  of debugging spreadsheets\, uncover significant gender differences in sel
 f-efficacy and feature acceptance\, with females exhibiting lower self-eff
 icacy and lower feature acceptance.  This talk will focus on the developme
 nt of hypotheses\, present the empirical results\, and follow up with poss
 ible solutions we are currently exploring.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room\, Computer Laboratory
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