TY - GEN
T1 - The Matchmaker Inclusive Design Curriculum
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
AU - Garcia, Rosalinda
AU - Morreale, Patricia
AU - Verdi, Gail
AU - Garcia, Heather
AU - Guevara, Jimena Noa
AU - Madsen, Spencer
AU - Alzugaray-Orellana, Maria Jesus
AU - Li, Elizabeth
AU - Burnett, Margaret
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - Despite efforts to raise awareness of societal and ethical issues in CS education, research shows students often do not act upon their new awareness (Problem 1). One such issue, well-established by HCI research, is that much of technology contains barriers impacting numerous populations-such as minoritized genders, races, ethnicities, and more. HCI has inclusive design methods that help-but these skills are rarely taught, even in HCI classes (Problem 2). To address Problems 1 and 2, we created the Matchmaker Curriculum to pair CS faculty-including non-HCI faculty-with inclusive design elements to allow for inclusive design skill-building throughout their CS program. We present the curriculum and a field study, in which we followed 18 faculty along their journey. The results show how the Matchmaker Curriculum equipped 88% of these faculty with enough inclusive design teaching knowledge to successfully embed actionable inclusive design skill-building into 13 CS courses.
AB - Despite efforts to raise awareness of societal and ethical issues in CS education, research shows students often do not act upon their new awareness (Problem 1). One such issue, well-established by HCI research, is that much of technology contains barriers impacting numerous populations-such as minoritized genders, races, ethnicities, and more. HCI has inclusive design methods that help-but these skills are rarely taught, even in HCI classes (Problem 2). To address Problems 1 and 2, we created the Matchmaker Curriculum to pair CS faculty-including non-HCI faculty-with inclusive design elements to allow for inclusive design skill-building throughout their CS program. We present the curriculum and a field study, in which we followed 18 faculty along their journey. The results show how the Matchmaker Curriculum equipped 88% of these faculty with enough inclusive design teaching knowledge to successfully embed actionable inclusive design skill-building into 13 CS courses.
KW - GenderMag
KW - HCI education
KW - Inclusive Design
KW - Responsible CS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194886825&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642475
DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642475
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194886825
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -