Designing for Inclusivity
Designing for Inclusivity
Do you value diversity, equity, and inclusion in your institution? If so, are the products that you are creating equitable and inclusive for usage by diverse populations of users? The evidence suggests “no” — and this talk will consider how to address this problem by answering the following questions: How can you assess whether the products you create support diverse users? And if not, how can you fix them? The speaker will then present an evaluation method, InclusiveMag, that you can use to find “inclusivity bugs” in the software, processes, or courseware that you create. In this talk, the speaker will also present the experiences of different teams using GenderMag, an evaluation method derived from InclusiveMag.
About the speaker
Professor, Associate Head of Research, Oregon State University
Dr. Anita Sarma is a professor and Associate Head of Research in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on human factors in software development and how to design inclusive technology to help software developers. Her work crosscuts areas of SE, AI for SE, HCI, open source, and CSCW. She has co-authored more than 100 conference and journal articles, and has received numerous awards. She received the OSU Breaking Barriers Research award (2021) for her work in removing gender biases from software. She is a co-director of the GenderMag project. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2013) and Google Inclusion Research Award (2022).
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