Margaret M. Burnett
ABSTRACT
Although there has been recent investigation into how to understand and ameliorate the low representation of females in computing, there has been little research into how software itself fits into the picture. Our focus is on how supposedly gender-neutral software interacts with gender differences. Specifically, we have concentrated on software aimed at supporting users doing problem solving. For example, what if females' problem-solving effectiveness, using software such as Excel, would accelerate if the software were changed to take gender differences into account? This talk reports the investigations my students and I have conducted into whether and how software and its features affect females' and males' performance differently, and describes the beginnings of work on promising interventions that help both males and females.
- J. Cao, K. Rector, T. H. Park, S. D. Fleming, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, A debugging perspective on end-user mashup programming, IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Computing, Sept. 2010 (to appear). Google Scholar
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- M. Burnett, S. D. Fleming, S. Iqbal, G. Venolia, V. Rajaram, U. Farooq, V. Grigoreanu, M. Czerwinski, Gender differences and programming environments: Across programming populations, ACM Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Sept. 2010 (to appear). Google ScholarDigital Library
- V. Grigoreanu, M. Burnett, and G. Robertson, A strategy-centric approach to the design of end-user debugging tools, ACM CHI 2010, April 2010, 713--722. Google ScholarDigital Library
- V. Grigoreanu, J. Brundage, E. Bahna, M. Burnett, P. ElRif, J. Snover, Males' and females' script debugging strategies, 2nd Int. Symp. End-User Development, Mar. 2009. Google ScholarDigital Library
- V. Grigoreanu, J. Cao, T. Kulesza, C. Bogart, K. Rector, M. Burnett, and S. Wiedenbeck, Can feature design reduce the gender gap in end-user software development environments? IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Computing, Sept. 2008, 149--156. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith, D. Inman, K. Rector, M. Burnett, On to the real world: Gender and self-efficacy in Excel, IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Computing, Sept. 2007, 119--126 Google ScholarDigital Library
- N. Subrahmaniyan, C. Kissinger, K. Rector, D. Inman, J. Kaplan, L. Beckwith, M. Burnett, Explaining debugging strategies to end-user programmers, IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Computing, Sept. 2007, 127--134. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith, Gender HCI issues in end-user programming, Ph.D. Thesis, Oregon State University, 2007.Google Scholar
- L. Beckwith, M. Burnett, V. Grigoreanu, S. Wiedenbeck, Gender HCI: What about the software? Computer, Nov. 2006, 83--87. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith, C. Kissinger, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, J. Lawrance, A. Blackwell, C. Cook, Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging, ACM Conf. Human-Computer Interaction, Apr. 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith, S. Sorte, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, T. Chintakovid, C. Cook, Designing features for both genders in enduser software engineering environments, IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Computing, Sept. 2005, 153--160. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith, M. Burnett, S. Wiedenbeck, C. Cook, S. Sorte, M. Hastings, Effectiveness of end-user debugging software features: Are there gender issues?, ACM Conf. Human Factors in Comput. Systems, Apr. 2005, 869--878. Google ScholarDigital Library
- L. Beckwith and M. Burnett, Gender: An important factor in end-user programming environments? IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. Human-Centric Comput. Lang. Environments, Sept. 2004. Google ScholarDigital Library
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