The Potential of Humanitarian Applications to Increase Interest and Motivation of Underrepresented Student Groups
Lori Postner, Heidi J. C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Wesley Shumar · 2024
This study investigated whether humanitarian applications of computing are more interesting and motivating to students than non-humanitarian options and whether there are differences across race/ethnic groups. A survey was developed to measure students' interest by asking them to choose between two applications, one humanitarian and one non-humanitarian. Students were also asked to rate how motivating they would find working on a collection of humanitarian and non-humanitarian applications.