Technology and cognitive ability: the use of new technologies and the design of digital interfaces.
This study is guided by the principle that there is no technology detached from an ideology. This ideology appears in the interfaces conditioning the relationship between people and digital artifacts. This article adopts as theoretical reference the User-Centered Design (UCD). Under the UCD principles it is presented a key to understand how technology is a vehicle of ideological content that affects the design practices.
Faculty of Design, Department of Arts, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Av. Salgado Filho 3000. Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, Natal RN, Brazil. olavo.bessa@live.it
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D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D014584:User-Computer Interface