2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04) Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments? Rome, Italy September 26-September 29 ISBN: 0-7803-8696-5
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2004.28
A human-centric issue that has not been considered in the design of end-user programming environments is whether gender differences exist that are important to the design of these environments. Ignoring this issue would miss the opportunity of enhancing the effectiveness of end-user programmers by incorporating appropriate mechanisms to support gender-associated differences in decision making, learning, and problem solving. This paper takes a first step toward building a foundation for investigating this issue by surveying gender difference literature from five domains with an eye toward possible implications for end-user programming. We present a taxonomy of this literature, and derive a number of specific issues for each element of the taxonomy (stated as hypotheses). This foundation provides a starting point for organized investigations into issues that may be important for making breakthroughs in the effectiveness of end-user programmers.
Citation:
Laura Beckwith, Margaret Burnett, "Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?," vlhcc, pp.107-114, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||