Browsing by Subject "GENDER"
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The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Gendered Experience of Imprisonment
(2019)The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) is a supranational human rights monitoring body tasked with carrying out visits to places of detention across Europe. The CPT is unique in its activities as a ... -
Gender Bias on Tinder: Transforming an Exploratory Qualitative Survey into Statistical Data for Contextualized Interpretation
(Springer Nature, 2017)Tinder is an online dating application that enables a human-human interaction. However, the ease of connection brings to light some concerns about possible harmful gender dynamics, which can enhance bias within technological ... -
Gender differences in the language of the Map Task dialogues
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Gender Effects in Mobile Application Development.
(2020)Growing interest in the impact of gender on technology includes concerns with regard to gender bias and its implication in the user experience. Past explorations of gender and design revealed significant differences between ... -
The Influence of Personas' Gender in Design
(2021)In mobile application design, the construction of personas is a well-known technique that helps designers to empathise with users and to understand their needs. However, there are several issues that lead to stereotyped ... -
Is Your Application Gender Biased?
(2019)The process of design is underpinned by a solid methodology that comprises stages of research, creation and validation of the ideas in order to ensure that a product or a service will meet the users’ needs. However, in the ... -
Lilith Unsexed
(Palgrave, 2023)Among the many types of demons which plagued ancient Mesopotamian were those of the líl-type. One of the female members of this type, lilītu, is the ‘ancestor’ of the Jewish demoness Lilith, and indeed Aramaic incantation ... -
A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice's Gender and Quality Level
(2023)Based on a previous investigation, a quantitative study aimed to identify user’ preferences towards four synthetic voices of two different quality levels (classified through the sophistication of the synthesizer: low vs. ... -
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Gender Minority Students in Irish Third-Level Education
(Trinity College Dublin, 2019)This report provides the main analytical results of a survey distributed to gender minority students (i.e. transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming) in Irish higher education (Third-Level). The survey touched ... -
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Gender Minority Students in Irish Third-Level Education: Steps Towards Achieving Safety and Inclusion
(National LGBTQI Federation (NXF), 2020)This policy brief provides an overview of the findings in “Understanding the Lived Experiences of Gender Minority Students in Irish Third-Level Education: A National Survey of Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming ... -
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
(2022)Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important ...