TY - GEN
T1 - Embedding Equitable Design in the CS Computing Curricula
AU - Patel, Pankati
AU - Morreale, Patricia
AU - Kumar, Yulia
AU - Kwak, Daehan
AU - Chu, Jean
AU - Garcia, Rose
AU - Burnett, Margaret
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2023/3/6
Y1 - 2023/3/6
N2 - Computer science (CS) students' curricula is heavily focused on technical skills, and CS ethics, usability, equity, and people/society considerations are not well-integrated into the CS curriculum. If these topics are introduced, they are disconnected from the core courses. As a result, students do not learn to incorporate inclusive practices into their software designs. Thus, students create software through the perspective of a computer scientist - when the important perspective is that of the intended users. As a result, students entering the workforce are inclined to design software that is non-inclusive. We propose the integration of inclusive design in the undergraduate curriculum will result in students creating inclusive software. This research, based on the foundations of inclusive design methods, investigates a new approach to teaching CS. Inclusive software design is embedded into computing courses for all four years of the undergraduate CS curriculum. This new approach is "minimally invasive", occupying very little classroom time, instead it is integrated into the course work that is already assigned.
AB - Computer science (CS) students' curricula is heavily focused on technical skills, and CS ethics, usability, equity, and people/society considerations are not well-integrated into the CS curriculum. If these topics are introduced, they are disconnected from the core courses. As a result, students do not learn to incorporate inclusive practices into their software designs. Thus, students create software through the perspective of a computer scientist - when the important perspective is that of the intended users. As a result, students entering the workforce are inclined to design software that is non-inclusive. We propose the integration of inclusive design in the undergraduate curriculum will result in students creating inclusive software. This research, based on the foundations of inclusive design methods, investigates a new approach to teaching CS. Inclusive software design is embedded into computing courses for all four years of the undergraduate CS curriculum. This new approach is "minimally invasive", occupying very little classroom time, instead it is integrated into the course work that is already assigned.
KW - gendermag
KW - human computer interaction
KW - inclusive design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149767261&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3545947.3576278
DO - 10.1145/3545947.3576278
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85149767261
T3 - SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 1332
BT - SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2023
Y2 - 15 March 2023 through 18 March 2023
ER -