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Hands-on participatory and interdisciplinary design in computer science: an example

Computer Science is dominated by male culture. Women's exclusion from the field often leads to the creation of software that reproduces sexist stereotypes and does not meet women's needs. Previous studies address this issue and have motivated a participatory and interdisciplinary approach to software creation in order to avoid gender discrimination and sexism. From this perspective, I argue that implementing a Gender and Diversity Studies lens can broaden the development process of software. In this article, I demonstrate the benefits and challenges of such an approach by introducing a participatory project I conducted in the field of Music Information Retrieval from an interdisciplinary perspective: Computer Science, Music Psychology and Gender and Diversity Studies. I invited a group of 14 year old girls to participate in the study. The outcome demonstrates the need for both a participatory and interdisciplinary approach in order to cultivate gender-inclusive research and software development.