From GenderMag to InclusiveMag: An Inclusive Design Meta-Method

Mendez, Christopher; Letaw, Lara; Burnett, Margaret; Stumpf, Simone; Sarma, Anita; Hilderbrand, Claudia

doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2019.8818889

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“…Under differing vocabularies, the same concept is also widely espoused in others' views on HCI feminism, queer feminism, and queer theory (e.g., [16,49,66,76]; summarized in [10]). The concept of pluralism is also a central idea behind work in universal or inclusive design, suggesting that the approach presented here may also be applicable to diversity dimensions beyond gender diversity (e.g., disabilities, age, socioeconomic, via InclusiveMag-generated foundations [54]). All of these ideologies embrace the common theme of avoiding making technology that attempts to force diverse individuals to all problem-solve and work with technology in one and only way.…”

Section: Perspectives On Gender Feminism and Responsible Cs-and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing the Online Climate via the Online Students: Effects of Three Curricular Interventions on Online CS Students’ Inclusivity

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Garcia

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

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Motivation: Although CS Education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We are interested in two such improvements in online CS educationbesides being inclusive to each other, online CS students also need to be able to create inclusive technology. Objectives: We have begun developing a new approach that we term "embedded inclusive design" to address both of these goals. The essence of the approach is to integrate elements of inclusive design education into mainstream CS coursework. This paper presents three curricular interventions we have developed in this approach and empirically investigates their efficacy in online CS post-baccalaureate education. Our research questions were: How do these three curricular interventions affect (RQ1) the climate among online CS students and (RQ2) how online CS students honor the diversity of their users in the tech they create?Method: To answer these research questions, we implemented the curricular interventions in four asynchronous online CS classes across two CS courses within Oregon State University's Ecampus and conducted an action research study to investigate the impacts. Results: Online CS students who experienced these interventions reported feeling more included in the major than they had before, reported positive impacts on their team dynamics, increased their interest in accommodating diverse users, and created more inclusive technology designs than they had before. Discussion: These results provide encouraging evidence that embedding elements of inclusive design into mainstream CS coursework, via the interventions presented here, can increase both online CS students' inclusivity toward one another and the inclusivity of the technology these future CS practitioners create.

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Section: Perspectives On Gender Feminism and Responsible Cs-and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing the Online Climate via the Online Students: Effects of Three Curricular Interventions on Online CS Students’ Inclusivity

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Garcia

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

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“…In this paper, we explain how an HCI designer can leverage the power of type abstraction and compose or decompose existing analytical methods and types in the InclusiveMag family of analytical methods [45], to produce new analytical methods for new intersectional populations of interest. We formally prove the (de-)compositionality properties of the analytical methods, and then illustrate their practical implications for HCI designers.…”

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“…InclusiveMag [45] is a meta-method that enables HCI researchers to generate systematic analytical design methods for a given diversity dimension. Designers and other software practitioners can then use the InclusiveMag-generated methods to evaluate user experiences from the perspective of users across the diversity dimension.…”

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“…Designers and other software practitioners can then use the InclusiveMag-generated methods to evaluate user experiences from the perspective of users across the diversity dimension. For example, InclusiveMag was used to generate GenderMag, a systematic analytical method for the diversity dimension of gender [10,45]. HCI practitioners have used the GenderMag method to find and fix inclusivity issues in a variety of domains, such as education software [10,19,33,58], machine learning aids [11], office productivity software [34], Open Source project sites [13,28,50], robotics [59], software tools [30], and search interfaces [64].…”

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“…HCI practitioners have used the GenderMag method to find and fix inclusivity issues in a variety of domains, such as education software [10,19,33,58], machine learning aids [11], office productivity software [34], Open Source project sites [13,28,50], robotics [59], software tools [30], and search interfaces [64]. Other offspring of InclusiveMag include SESMag to support users in diverse socioeconomic situations [35], AgeMag to evaluate age bias in e-commerce applications [44], and a collection of eight pilot InclusiveMag-generated methods to support eight diversity dimensions (e.g., eyesight, attention span, position along the autism spectrum) [45].…”

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Intersectionality Goes Analytical: Taming Combinatorial Explosion Through Type Abstraction

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Erwig²,

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HCI researchers' and practitioners' awareness of intersectionality has been expanding, producing knowledge, recommendations, and prototypes for supporting intersectional populations. However, doing intersectional HCI work is uniquely expensive: it leads to a combinatorial explosion of empirical work (expense 1), and little of the work on one intersectional population can be leveraged to serve another (expense 2). In this paper, we explain how representations employed by certain analytical design methods correspond to type abstractions, and use that correspondence to identify a (de)compositional model in which a population's diverse identity properties can be joined and split. We formally prove the model's correctness, and show how it enables HCI designers to harness existing analytical HCI methods for use on new intersectional populations of interest. We illustrate through four design use-cases, how the model can reduce the amount of expense 1 and enable designers to leverage prior work to new intersectional populations, addressing expense 2.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI design and evaluation methods.

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