Gender pluralism in problem-solving software

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 450-460

  Burnett, Margaret M ^a   Beckwith, Laura ^a,c   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^b   Fleming, Scott D ^a   Cao, Jill ^a   Park, Thomas H ^b   Grigoreanu, Valentina ^a,d   Rector, Kyle ^a,e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HCI Researcher   (Denmark)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Problem solving software; Spreadsheet debugging

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SPREADSHEETS;

GENDER; GENDER DIFFERENCES; OUTCOME MEASURES; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS; SPREADSHEET DEBUGGING; SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE; WORKPLACE PRACTICES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 80255134529     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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