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Gender Designs IT
Author | : Isabel Zorn,Susanne Maass,Els Rommes,Carola Schirmer,Heidi Schelhowe |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783531902951 |
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How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be. A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied. The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.
What Works
Author | : Iris Bohnet |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674089037 |
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a new solution. Iris Bohnet shows that by de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts—often at low cost and high speed.
Gender Design and Marketing
Author | : Gloria Moss |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781351934510 |
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Product and service designers place increasing emphasis on the colour, form and appearance of what their organization offers and the language with which they describe it. Gloria Moss' erudite, sophisticated and fascinating book, guides the reader to an understanding of the way gender influences our visual perception. In this wide-ranging book the author explores design, visual aesthetics, language and communication, by drawing on an exhaustive range of primary sources of research from psychology, design, branding and communication. The lessons that emerge offer challenges to organizations both in the way in which their design and marketing is perceived by men and women, and how the make-up of their workforce may limit their ability to appreciate and address the diversity of customers' preferences. The challenge for management is to overcome these limitations and ensure that an organization's products and services mirror preferences of customers rather than those of senior managers.
Gender Designs IT
Author | : Isabel Zorn,Susanne Maass,Els Rommes,Carola Schirmer,Heidi Schelhowe |
Publsiher | : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007-02-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3531148184 |
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How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be. A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied. The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.
Gendered Design
Author | : Eileen Green |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1993-07-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0748400923 |
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This collection brings together two areas of research and debate: firstly the sociology of gender relations in the workplace, and secondly the expanding body of interdisciplinary research into the design of computer systems. The book articulates distinctive gender perspectives in relation to IT.
Gender Inclusive Game Design
Author | : Sheri Graner Ray |
Publsiher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Computer and women |
ISBN | : 1584502398 |
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This book explores the relationship between women and computer games, both the women in the gaming industry and the women who serve as a market for computer games.
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Author | : Trauth, Eileen M. |
Publsiher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 1451 |
Release | : 2006-06-30 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781591408161 |
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"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Designing for Diversity
Author | : Kathryn H. Anthony |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2021-08-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780252052828 |
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Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, Designing for Diversity reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Drawing on interviews and surveys of hundreds of architects, Kathryn H. Anthony outlines some of the forms of discrimination that recur most frequently in architecture: being offered added responsibility without a commensurate rise in position, salary, or credit; not being allowed to engage in client contact, field experience, or construction supervision; and being confined to certain kinds of positions, typically interior design for women, government work for African Americans, and computer-aided design for Asian American architects. Anthony discusses the profession's attitude toward flexible schedules, part-time contracts, and the demands of family and identifies strategies that have helped underrepresented individuals advance in the profession, especially establishing a strong relationship with a mentor. She also observes a strong tendency for underrepresented architects to leave mainstream practice, either establishing their own firms, going into government or corporate work, or abandoning the field altogether. Given the traditional mismatch between diverse consumers and predominantly white male producers of the built environment, plus the shifting population balance toward communities of color, Anthony contends that the architectural profession staves off true diversity at its own peril. Designing for Diversity argues convincingly that improving the climate for nontraditional architects will do much to strengthen architecture as a profession. Practicing architects, managers of firms, and educators will learn how to create conditions more welcoming to a diversity of users as well as designers of the built environment.