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CLEIEJ
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Differences in Perception of Computer Sciences and Informatics due to Gender and Experience
Low participation of women in Computer Science (CS) has been documented in some countries. Since this phenomenon occurs in the Computer Science and Informatics Department at the U...
Gabriela Marín, Elena Gabriela Barrantes, S...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices
Historically, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has had very little success attracting women to the study of computer science: women have chosen CS less than any other field of study. In...
Christine Alvarado, Zachary Dodds
IADIS
2004
13 years 8 months ago
A Model of Learning Using the Internet
This paper is a report of some of the findings in a study of how and what women in computer science learn using the Internet for communication with other women. The focus of this ...
Mary Dee Medley
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Encouraging the development of undergraduate researchers in computer vision
In a small computer science department without a graduate program, it is sometimes difficult to attract research students. This is particularly true for research in computer visio...
Clark F. Olson