Using a virtual workplace environment to reduce implicit gender bias

K Beltran, C Rowland, N Hashemi… - … Journal of Human …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Implicit gender bias has costly and complex consequences for women in the workplace, with
many women reporting gender microaggressions which result in them being overlooked or …

Reducing implicit gender bias using a virtual workplace environment

K Beltran, C Rowland, N Hashemi, A Nguyen… - Extended abstracts of …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Implicit gender bias has costly and complex consequences for women in the workplace. We
present an online desktop virtual environment that follows the story of a male or female self …

Examining the effects of gender transfer in virtual reality on implicit gender bias

L Wu, KB Chen - Human factors, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To investigate the effect of gender transfer in virtual reality on implicit gender bias.
Background Gender bias is a type of discrimination based on gender, which can lead to …

The effects of embodiment in virtual reality on implicit gender bias

S Schulze, T Pence, N Irvine, C Guinn - … , VAMR 2019, Held as Part of the …, 2019 - Springer
Virtual reality allows users to have a virtual body that is different from their physical body, an
idea known as embodiment. In previous research, embodiment in different types of avatars …

The effect of gender body-swap illusions on working memory and stereotype threat

TC Peck, M Doan, KA Bourne… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The underrepresentation of women in technical and STEM fields is a well-known problem,
and stereotype threatening situations have been linked to the inability to recruit and retain …

Exploring intrinsic gender identity using second life

BM Mitra, P Golz - Journal For Virtual Worlds Research, 2016 - jvwr-ojs-utexas.tdl.org
Virtual worlds (VWs) provide an environment to understand and explore notions of gender
and identity, particularly given the ability for users to experiment with gender in online …

Evaluating face gender cues in virtual humans within and beyond the gender binary

R Ghosh, PG Feijóo-García, J Stuart… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Virtual human work regarding gender is widely based on binary gender despite
recent understandings of gender extending beyond female and male. Additionally, gender …

Gender Swap in Virtual Reality for Supporting Inclusion and Implications in the Workplace

L Wu, KB Chen - … on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONS We explored the potential impacts of a virtual gender
swap on perceptions toward sexual harassment, which is a harmful behavior that lacks …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring how gender-anonymous voice avatars influence women's performance in online computing group work

D Kao, ST Mubarrat, A Joshi, S Pandita… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate how gender-anonymous voice avatars influence women's performance in
online computing group work. Female participants worked with two male confederates …

An examination of gender differences versus similarities in a virtual world

AL Martens, CA Grover, DA Saucier… - Computers in Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
We derived competing hypotheses from the gender similarities perspective versus the
gender differences perspective to examine participants' behavior in an online virtual world in …