Battling gender stereotypes: A user study of a code-learning game, “Code Combat,” with middle school children

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Highlights：

• Assessing how gender differences are reproduced in a code-learning game is an unexplored category for player experience.

• Existing traditionally male-positive stereotypes affect participants' code learning game experience and performance.

• Girls exposed to a stereotypically male-targeted code learning game will distance themselves from coding concept.

• Girls' interest or success in a computational area is associated with not being an ordinary female.

摘要

•Assessing how gender differences are reproduced in a code-learning game is an unexplored category for player experience.•Existing traditionally male-positive stereotypes affect participants' code learning game experience and performance.•Girls exposed to a stereotypically male-targeted code learning game will distance themselves from coding concept.•Girls' interest or success in a computational area is associated with not being an ordinary female.

论文关键词：User experience (UX),Digital gender divide,Gender stereotypes,Stereotype threat,Games,Serious games

论文评审过程：Received 9 May 2018, Revised 15 May 2019, Accepted 22 May 2019, Available online 25 May 2019, Version of Record 15 June 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.029