Abstract
The absence of women in IT has tangible social and technical consequences. Whoever designs the interfaces, defines the functionalities, and writes the algorithms behind them also infuses them with their rational, way of thinking, and modus operandi. If women are typically only users, and not developers, of IT, the female perspective, or more broadly diversity, will be missing from the process of design, creation, and development. This consideration is even more crucial in Human Computer Interaction when looking at the design of usable, useful, and used systems. But how can we measure the impact of neglecting diversity, including diversity of gender, in User Experience (UX)? In this poster, we propose to elaborate on which UX dimensions and factors are contributing to usability to better convey the importance of diversity, as well as addressing whether there is a need to introduce new criteria and measures to account for gender related differences. We expect to deliver an enriched evaluation framework for assessing the performance of technology and the kind of experience it offers to different users while keeping the discussion open in the HCI community and beyond.
This project was partially supported by COST Action CA19122 – European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN).
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The authors used UEQ and VISAWI-S questionnaires, neither of which is geared specifically towards capturing gender issues.
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Szlávi, A., Landoni, M. (2022). Human Computer Interaction - Gender in User Experience. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2022 Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06417-3_18
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