An example homework that runs students on the personas and how to use them in the GenderMag Walkthrough.
Students mark on the continuum where they think their persona's cognitive styles are likely to fall.
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 education- besides being inclusive to each other, online CS students also need to be able to create inclusive technology.
To avoid "gender-inclusiveness bugs" in technology
GenderMag walkthrough simulation of Abi using the Canvas content management site.
Paper about how to create bias-detection methods (e.g., GenderMag)
Useful graphics and slides for dispelling fears about GenderMag and stereotyping.
Two-page summary of the GenderMag walkthrough method.
An example homework that runs students through a given scenario.
Research paper about gender-inclusivity issues found in online CS courses---an an automated tool (AID/Courseware) for detecting those issues.
A presentation for more advanced students who already have an understanding of personas and cognitive walkthroughs. Good for introducing gender-inclusive design.
Teaches how to run a GenderMag walkthrough session.
General slide deck for teaching the GenderMag walkthrough method.
Accompanying powerpoint presentation for "Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Inclusive Design" (Oleson et al., 2018)
CITATION: Gender-Inclusiveness Personas vs. Stereotyping: Can We Have it Both Ways? Charles Hill, Maren Haag, Alannah Oleson, Chris Mendez, Nicola Marsden, Anita Sarma, Margaret Burnett, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'17), May 2017, pp. 6658-6671. ABSTRACT: Personas often aim to improve product designers' ability to "see through the eyes of" target users through the empathy personas can inspire - but personas are also known to promote stereotyping. This tension can be particularly problematic when personas (who, of course as "people" have genders) are used to promote gender inclusiveness - because reinforcing stereotypical perceptions can run counter to gender inclusiveness. In this paper we explicitly investigate this tension through a new approach to personas: one that includes multiple photos (of males and females) for a single persona. We compared this approach to an identical persona with only one photo using a controlled laboratory study and an eye-tracking study. Our goal was to answer the following question: is it possible for personas to encourage product designers to engage with personas while at the same avoiding promoting gender stereotyping? Our results are encouraging about the use of personas with multiple pictures as a way to expand participants' consideration of multiple genders without reducing their engagement with the persona. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f1aJhWGfLM
Pedagogical content knowledge for teaching inclusive design.
A list of example test questions, with various types of questions.
Shows how to run a GenderMag walkthrough.