The contribution of female scholars in the scientific community has always been indelible. Although the contribution of women is not as much as that of men, women have also made great contributions to society and the scientific community. But they also have various prejudices and obstacles in the process of their fruitful achievements. They can only rely on the struggle to break through prejudices and gain the opportunity to show their abilities. The story of personal struggle is the inspirational story of the best heroine, and they practice the broader external world with their actions. It is undeniable that even in the current reality, this invisible and artificial obstruction exists all the time. The developmental inequality of gender has run through the entire history of human society. In scientific research and career development suffered certain troubles.
We can see from the life of Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth, two outstanding female scientists who have made great achievements in interaction design. Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous British poet L.Byron, designed the Babbage Analytical On-Machine Solution A program for Bernoulli’s equations and proved that the 19th-century computer madman Babbage’s analyzer could be used to solve many problems. Lillian Gilbreth, who was the first woman elected to the national civil service and received the first doctorate in industrial psychology in 1915, is arguably the founder of the modern age, who brought human psychology to the emerging field of scientific management. She has received 23 honorary degrees and many awards. Although her work is done through computers, Lillian Gilbreth’s user-centered thinking has a direct impact on the development of human-computer interaction technology in the 21st century.
From their stories, we can see that women are no worse than men even in the scientific world, but many women’s abilities and contributions are not recognized by society. This is a very troublesome question for me. What is the unwillingness of men to recognize the status of women? Or do other women think that husbands and children are what women should do? I hope that over time and more and more women make great contributions in all aspects, people can slowly dispel the bad perception of women.
With the understanding of the important role of women in the development history of interaction design, the understanding of interaction design can be deepened. Women can perceive the world in their own way. This perception is not only conducive to the improvement of science and technology but also adds humanity to scientific design. The emotion has a real sense of reality in women’s society. There are new developments and progress in the field of interaction every year. In addition to focusing on the relatively new VR and AR fields, the current human-computer interaction also includes multi-modal interaction, multi-screen interaction, cross-device interaction, spatial interaction, emotional interaction, brain-computer interaction, and Interaction between humans and robots, etc. All in all, human development sees increased participation and inclusion of women in different fields.
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