Can feature design reduce the gender gap in end-user software development environments?

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 149-156

  Grigoreanu, Valentina ^a   Cao, Jill ^a   Kulesza, Todd ^a   Bogart, Christopher ^a   Rector, Kyle ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDUSER PROGRAMMERS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; TESTING AND DEBUGGING;

LINGUISTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 56349085178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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