De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy

Degendering the Species? Gender Studies Encounter Virtual Humans

This paper examines the importance of acknowledging gender and gender related categories for interactive design, especially for design engineering processes of Embodied Conversational Agents. It offers a complex understanding of the term gender including the intersectional character of gender, second thoughts on gender as a binary system and the performativity of gender. These different aspects...

Social Cognition of Gender and Language

The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence of feminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on the literature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two major strands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from...

[Scientific method and standardised nursing language].

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

Spoken language and e-inclusion

Speech technology can help people with disabilities. Blind and non-speaking people were amongst the first to be provided with commercially available speech synthesis systems, and, to this day, represent a much higher percentage of users of this technology than their numbers would predict. Speech synthesis technology has, for example, transformed the lives of many blind people, but the success o...