Gendered or neutral?: considering the language of HCI
نویسندگان
چکیده
In this paper, we present a Mechanical Turk study that explores how the most common words that have been used to refer to people in recent HCI literature are received by non-experts. The top five CHI 2014 people words are: user, participant, person, designer, and researcher. We asked participants to think about one of these words for ten seconds and then to draw an image of it. After the drawing was done we asked simple demographic questions about both the participant and the created image. Our results show that while generally our participants did perceive most of these words as predominately male, there were two notable exceptions. Women appear to perceive the terms “person” and “participant” as gender neutral. That is, they were just as likely to draw a person or a participant as male or female. So while these two words are not exactly gender neutral in that men largely perceived them as male, at least women did not appear to feel excluded by these terms. We offer an increased understanding of the perception of HCI’s people words and discuss the challenges this poses to our community in striving toward gender inclusiveness.
منابع مشابه
Gender-preferential Linguistic Elements in Applied Linguistics Research Papers: Partial Evaluation of a Model of Gendered Language
This article intended to investigate whether the gender-preferential linguistic elements found by Argomon, Koppel, Fine and Shimoni (2003) show the same gender-linked frequencies in applied linguistics research papers written by non-native speakers of English. In so doing, a sample of 32 articles from different journals was collected and the proportion of the targeted features to the whole numb...
متن کاملGendered Language: Men’s vs Women’s Uses of Address Terms within New Interchange Series
This study set out to check the addressing behavior within men’s and women’s talk in the written conversations in English language textbook series titled ‘New Interchange book’ by Richards, Hull and Proctor, (1998) from Cambridge University Press. In line with this aim, the present researchers initially prepared descriptive tables for both formal and informal contexts in three theme categories ...
متن کاملAntithetical Gendered Stances in Readers’ Comments on Domestic Violence against Men
Domestic violence against women (DVAW) has received much attention from scholars across disciplines, leading to a circumvention of studies on domestic violence against men (DVAM). This paper, therefore, engages in a qualitative dialogic analysis of readers’ comments on cases of DVAM reported in select blogs in order to elicit opposing gendered stances on DVAM in the selected readers’ comments; ...
متن کاملبررسی و مدلسازی اثر ناپایداری در دمای بالا و بایاس منفی (NBTI) و تزریق حاملهای پرانرژی (HCI) در افزارههای چندگیتی نانومتری
In this paper, analytical models for NBTI induced degradation in a P-channel triple gate MOSFET and HCI induced degradation in an N-channel bulk FinFET are presented, through solving the Reaction-Diffusion equations multi-dimensionally considering geometry dependence of this framework of equations. The new models are compared to measurement data and gives excellent results. The results interpre...
متن کاملGendered Communication in Iranian University Classrooms: The Relationship between Politeness and Silence in Persian Culture
This study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at Iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. Since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...
متن کامل