Abstract:
Although there have been a number of studies of
end-user software development tasks, few of them have
considered gender issues for real end-user developers
in real-world environments for end-user programming.
In order to be trusted, the results of such laboratory
studies must always be re-evaluated with fewer controls,
more closely reflecting real-world conditions.
Therefore, the research question in this paper is
whether the results of a Gender HCI controlled study
generalize -- to real-world end-user developers, in a
real-world spreadsheet environment, using a realworld
spreadsheet. Our findings are that the concepts
revealed by the original laboratory study appear to be
quite robust, being demonstrated in multiple ways in
this real-world environment.
