by Shelley Wood | Sep 15, 2017
Central to the Women in Tech Project is creating interventions to address what we’ve uncovered from the field interviews and quantitative research. Using the research and principles from games for good, a team from University of Maryland is creating a Career Power...
by Shelley Wood | Sep 9, 2017 | calendar entry
Central to the Women in Tech Project is creating interventions to address what we’ve uncovered from the field interviews and quantitative research. Using the research and principles from games for good, at team from the University of Maryland is creating a Career...
by shelleywood | Sep 9, 2017
Central to the Women in Tech Project is creating interventions to address what we’ve uncovered from the field interviews and quantitative research. Using the research and principles from games for good, a team from University of Maryland is creating a Career Power...
by Shelley Wood | Jun 30, 2017
Karen is facilitating a luncheon panel on diversity, at which she’ll also share an overview of the Women in Tech research. Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers.
by Karen | Jun 4, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Over the last 18 months I’ve been travelling to different venues to give talks on the Women in Technology Retention Project. The audience has been women and some men. The ideas resonate with women but men also want to know what they can do to help. As one male manager...
by Shelley Wood | May 21, 2017
Karen will be speaking on Contextual Design: Design for Life. She’ll be discussing the changing ways technology impacts life and the new data collection, modeling and design techniques now a standard part of Contextual Design. This event is open to public. Go...
by Shelley Wood | Apr 22, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Karen’s article in Network Computing outlines the critical factors companies should focus on in order to retain women working in IT. The article is a great introduction to work being done by the Women in Tech Project.
by Shelley Wood | Mar 29, 2017
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 Derek Hoiem | Mar 27, 2017 | calendar entry
Karen recently appeared on the UXpod podcast to talk about the latest changes on her and Hugh Beyer’s classic book Contextual Design: Design for Life. The second edition of the book is almost a rewrite to reflect the changes in how people use and view products....
by Shelley Wood | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Today the percentage of women in technology is dropping. Worse, as reported by NCWIT the quit rate for tech women is more than twice as high (41%) as compared to men (17%) and 56% of women leave the field mid career. Clearly if we want more women in technology we have...
