Homeworks, CS 468/568: Inclusive Design, Fall 2019

Homework #1: Plan Abi

Meet "Abi" (top of this page). Abi is a persona I've been working on with a group of colleagues as part of a method we call GenderMag. (GenderMag is an inspection method for finding and fixing software features that may not be gender-inclusive.) Your mission is to pretend like you and your teammate are in the process of creating Abi for a company you both pretend to work for (Company X).

Company X is a company like Tulip. Their product is briefly described on their web page.

Specifically, with your temporary teammate, do the following to fill out this template:

• Using Appendix C as a guide, describe the "pretend" lifecycle processes you followed for Abi, for the family planning lifecycle stage only, ie pp 184-189. You'll need to have a feeling for the Abi persona and for Appendix B for this, because Appendix B gives an idea of the kind of substantiation you're aiming to achieve for your Abi persona.
• What to turn in:
  • The Company X "pretend" core team to create the Abi persona. See pp 184-185. It should end up looking like the bullets in the middle of p. 185.
  • The Company X "pretend" answers to each category shown on pp. 185-186 (Product problems, Resources, etc.), using the subbullets on pp. 184-186 as examples.
  • The Company X "pretend" action plan to create the Abi persona. See pp 185-189. It should look like Figure C.1, but with specifics filled in. For example:
    • Organizational introspection about xxxxx.
    • Data collection of data about x and data about y.
    • What stakeholders exactly?
    • Who is doing the evangelizing exactly?
    • And so on for the various activities C.1 suggests
  • The "pretend" data you're pretending you'll use in creating the Abi persona. It should look like Figures C.3 and C.4. The "questions" in Figure C.3 came from figuring out what they were aiming to solve. In your case, you can refer to what Abi looks like right now to come up with questions, along with the problems you invented when you used the bullets on pp. 184-186 above.
    Note 1: Figure C.4 shows places they found that they thought might be useful, but at that stage they hadn't read them yet to decide whether or how to use them.
    Note 2: Don't do a literature search for this assignment; just "pretend" you know the sources to look in. (Literature searches will happen later in the course.)
• Click to download a pdf sample of what you need to turn in. (May not open a new page -- but lands in your downloads.)
• How to turn it in: Use TEACH: 468 Submission 568 Submission
• Note: On-line foundation documents for Abi are here as an additional example, but they are not the style or level of detail I expect from you in this assignment.
• You can find the tentative grading policy for HW1 here.

Margaret M. Burnett
Date of last update: Sept. 24, 2019