What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?
What cognitive styles do you use to interact with technology? PRE-REQ: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87536 LAST UPDATE: Changed title
Reflection assignment about cognitive styles used to interact with technology. Includes reflection questions about relating to the GenderMag personas.
An example homework that runs students on the personas and how to use them in the GenderMag Walkthrough.
Activity where the class will perform a GenderMag walkthrough on the ACM website from the GenderMag persona’s perspective.
Heuristic evaluation peer activity using GenderMag Cognitive Style Heuristics.
Students mark on the continuum where they think their persona's cognitive styles are likely to fall.
Although CS Education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We are interested in two such improvements in online CS education- besides being inclusive to each other, online CS students also need to be able to create inclusive technology.
Do you sometimes feel that you do not belong in this program, or some of its courses? The instructors assure you that you do belong! To help combat that sense of imposter syndrome that you might be feeling, let's explore the notion that your cognitive styles of learning are similar to your peers' learning styles.
You may already know that OSU and other universities have studied course materials and technical tools to make improvements that level the playing field amongst you and your peers. Programs such as Cognitive Style Heuristics and GenderMag/InclusiveMag study differences in how people problem-solve while learning new technical skills. The projects' core methods of finding bias bugs in software and materials is to apply personas that represent different sets of cognitive facets.
Explore the Facets and Personas by clicking on the tabs at the top, then analyze which persona fits you best, by taking the Survey.
Your selection data will disappear after refreshing the page, or closing the browser. It will not be saved and collected.
To avoid "gender-inclusiveness bugs" in technology
What cognitive styles do we use to interact with technology? The GenderMag Project has identified five cognitive facets we bring to our use of technology.
A complete homework assignment in which students (1) create a paper prototype of a software design, (2) reflect on their GenderMag cognitive styles, (3) evaluate their prototype using heuristics based on GenderMag cognitive styles, and (4) revise their prototype.
GenderMag walkthrough simulation of Abi using the Canvas content management site.
You can use an iframe to embed this interactive tool into websites. Students can use the slider to select the cognitive styles they use to interact with technology. If they need to submit their cognitive styles to you, they can take a screenshot.
Example customized GenderMag persona: Abi. This customized Abi was used for a GenderMag Walkthrough of the Canvas course management system.
Extra credit assignment about the Cognitive Style Heuristics reading: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/reading-cognitive-style-heuristics
Customizable GenderMag persona: Abi. Abi provides the strongest lens to find inclusiveness issues that disproportionately affect women users. If you choose to use only one persona and your primary motivation is inclusiveness to women, Abi is probably the best first choice. Abi provides the strongest inclusivity lens out of the 3 personas (Abi, Pat, and Tim).
Customizable GenderMag persona: Pat. Pat touches (mostly) middle points in the facet ranges between the Abi and Tim GenderMag personas. If you want a third persona for additional coverage of the facets, Pat is a good third choice after Tim.
Customizable GenderMag persona: Tim. Tim represents the opposite end of the facet value ranges from the Abi GenderMag persona, so Tim helps to complete the "sweep" of considering a wide range of facet values. For full coverage of the spectrum, Tim is a good second choice after Abi.