by Shelley Wood | Mar 4, 2018
Karen is co-leading an exciting new SIG at CHI. To set the stage for the designathon, Karen and co-presenter Nicola Marsden will share the findings from a worldwide survey of women and men that reveal the underlying reasons for low retention. SIG participants will...
by Shelley Wood | Mar 1, 2018 | calendar entry
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM. This year, Karen and Carol Farnsworth of Facebook will be...
by Shelley Wood | Nov 12, 2017 | Articles, Blog, Featured
Any discussion of women’s experience in technology companies eventually turns to some discussion of men’s “bad behavior” — and I’m not talking about the awful prevalence of sexual harassment. Women in our Women in Tech research commonly complain about “being...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 16, 2017 | Articles, Featured
First, thank you to everyone who took the Women in Tech project’s initial research survey! Your answers aided in developing preliminary findings and allowed us to fine-tune the survey for this next phase. We’re now including survey participants from...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 12, 2017 | calendar entry
Karen is delighted to be the keynote speaker at the GEWINN conference in Heilbronn, Germany. GEWINN centers on interdisciplinary knowledge regarding gender and IT and is part of the research project Gender. Knowledge. Informatics. Network for Research Transfer of...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 10, 2017 | calendar entry
The Women in Tech project has entered into next phase with a research study in conjunction with Karen’s role as a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland. We’re exploring the early career experiences of women and men in their first high tech job after...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Featured
I’ve now read James Damore’s document about diversity at Google multiple times. James Damore is the 28-year old Google developer who wrote a long treatise in which he claimed that Google was an echo chamber of liberal ideas and that hiring women who aren’t good...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 8, 2017 | Articles, Featured
Hi Everyone, As we head into Fall, I want to share my current activities: spearheading work on retaining women in high-tech, supporting universities who want to develop stronger programs in HCI including Contextual Design, and of course responding to clients...
by Derek Hoiem | Oct 8, 2017 | Articles1, Featured
You’ve waited a long time — now it’s here! After 18 years, the classic Contextual Design book has been retired and the new edition has been released! Contextual Design 2nd Edition: Design for Life is completely rewritten, including how we have changed...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 4, 2017 | calendar entry
CHI is our community’s biggest international conference. It’s always great fun — and an honor — to participate. This year Karen will be co-presenting a SIG with Nicola Marsden from Heilbronn University: Designathon to Support Women in Tech. Please join...
