Designing Features for Both Genders in End-User Programming Environments

Authors:
Laura Beckwith;Shraddha Sorte;Margaret Burnett;Susan Wiedenbeck;Thippaya Chintakovid;Curtis Cook
Affiliations:
Oregon State University;Oregon State University;Oregon State University;Drexel University;Drexel University;Oregon State University
Venue:
VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Previous research has revealed gender differences that impact femalesý willingness to adopt software features in end usersý programming environments. Since these features have separately been shown to help end users problem solve, it is important to female end usersý productivity that we find ways to make these features more acceptable to females. In this paper, we draw from our ongoing work with users to help inform our design of theory-based methods for encouraging effective feature usage by both genders. This design effort is the first to begin addressing the gender differences in the ways that people go about problem solving in end-user programming situations.