This inagural workshop focusing on intersectionality as a foundation of software engineering, both in education and in practice, will be held in Trondheim, Norway on June 25th as a part of the 2025 Foundations of Software Engineering conference.
All of the program committee members are part of the COST Action CA19122 EUGAIN.
For questions, email the Program Committee Chair: Alicia JW Takaoka, Send email
Software and smart devices are becoming more embedded in our daily lives. Ethical concerns about omissions of groups of people and the biases of developers have come under rightful scrutiny by researchers and the general public. Our increased dependence on the built environment and those who make it require critical examination and reflection. In this inaugural workshop, we examine intersectionality, which is the recognition that individual categorizations like race and gender create interdependent systems of discrimination or systemic disadvantage, as a requirement in software engineering education and foundational in software engineering. Submissions examining the team composition, management practices, user perspectives, products in development or in use, processes that guide hiring practices or workplace culture, and policies that govern aspects of software development are encouraged. This workshop explores the importance of intersectionality as a foundational concept in software engineering.
The use of networked technologies to highlight the state of academia and work in recent years has led to intense polarization and fragmentation across cultural, political, and geographic boundaries. In response, empirical software engineering researchers have produced results that indicate the need for changes to software engineering practices, policies, and team composition, hiring, and education through sustainability and inclusion. This work impacts teams, users, and organizations software and applications are designed and deployed. An example of this is seen in the EU AI Act and the call to create AI, algorithmic, and autonomous systems auditing methods and impartial auditors.
This workshop theme is “Intersectionality, diversity, and inclusion as foundational to software engineering.” It offers an opportunity to focus scholarly attention on the social, cultural, political, and economic examination and shaping of software engineering practices, policies, and their consequences. This emphasis invites a range of scholarly inquiries, such as how to uncover bias in algorithms, question the western-centric development of AI, and evaluate accessible learning software. Submissions for the workshop may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Details about the workshop schedule will be available soon.
Details about the workshop speakers will be available soon.
As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. The call will follow paper requirements for FSE, and our proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. For a workshop paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of its authors must register for the workshop.
Claudia Maria Cutrupi is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) conducting her doctoral research on Gender Diversity and IT, specifically on the designing of human-centered intervention that address the lack of diversity in Software Engineering. Send email
Javier Gomez is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain researching technologies to support people with special needs. Send email
Filomena Ferrucci is a full professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno, Italy Empirical Software Engineering with a focus on Cultural and Socio-Technical Aspects in Software Development, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Science Education. Send email
Alicia Julia Wilson Takaoka is a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam focusing on AI, data, and digitalization for an inclusive and fair energy transition. Send email