Antonella De Angeli & Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
This workshop brings together papers which transcend disciplinary boundaries and explore gender issues from the point of view of the developer and the user, applying a wide range of theoretical approaches and research methodologies. Beckwith and colleagues address the relevance of gender in problem-solving software. John reports a case study on mental models of computer-games developers, while Brewer and Bassoli describes their own design experience. Kleinsmith and colleagues analyse the effect of gender on affect recognition from avatars bodies, and Krenn and Gstrein look at the avatars gender in a dating community. De Angeli and Brahnam focus on the effect of virtual gender on the relationship with conversational agents, while Draude presents a theoretical framework leading to suggestions on degendering strategies for virtual agents. De Cindio and colleagues propose a computational approach to address gender diversities in web-based application. The final two papers question the robustness of gender effects in virtual environment navigation (Ardito et al.) and computer-mediated communication (Gamberini et al.).
We believe that this workshop is an important step towards the understanding of the relevance of gender for interaction design. As a final remark, it is noteworthy how some 80% of our authors are females: Are we witnessing a gender bias in research?
Laura Beckwith, Margaret Burnett, Susan Wiedenbeck, Valentina Grigoreanu - Gender HCI: Results to date regarding issues in problem-solving software
Sara John - Un/realistically embodied: The gendered conceptions of realistic game design
Johanna Brewer, Arianna Bassoli - Reflections of gender, reflections on gender: Designing ubiquitous computing technologies
Andrea Kleinsmith, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Luc Berthouze - An effect of gender in the interpretation of affective cues in avatars
Brigitte Krenn, Erich Gstrein - On female and male avatars: data from a web-based flirting community
Antonella De Angeli and Sheryl Brahnam - Sex stereotypes and conversational agents
Claude Draude - Degendering the species? Gender studies encounter virtual humans
Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti - Gender and virtual navigation: an exploratory study
Fiorella De Cindio, Alessandra Mileo, Laura Anna Ripamonti - Adaptive interfaces to automatically capture human (and gender) diversity
Gamberini Luciano, Spagnolli Anna, Petrucci Giovanni - Who plan the travel? Negotiating a holiday via Instant Messaging and the Web. An analysis of gender differences