A Stealth Serious Game About Hiring Bias

Autor(en)
Helmut Hlavacs, Paul Pesak
Abstrakt

Despite growing awareness, unconscious racism and sexism still affect hiring decisions. This paper investigates such bias through a serious game designed to raise awareness and observe player behavior. Participants made hiring choices in the game based on applicant “stats” and images. The results indicate the presence of significant hiring bias against women among several actors, particularly in the direct choice between male and female candidates and in the assignment of employees to traditionally male-dominated jobs such as construction workers. These findings confirm the continuing influence of gender bias in recruitment scenarios and suggest that unconscious bias can have a significant impact on recruitment outcomes.

Organisation(en)
Forschungsgruppe Education, Didactics and Entertainment Computing, Forschungsgruppe Visualization and Data Analysis
Seiten
27-33
Anzahl der Seiten
7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10518-9_4
Publikationsdatum
12-2025
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
102013 Human-Computer Interaction
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Theoretical Computer Science, Allgemeine Computerwissenschaft
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8a306d7d-a087-4288-8fd7-5b725b015e64