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The ethical aspects involved in the application of the methodology of the user centered design is discussed in this paper. We present to the readers some application of educational practice that have been applied to the development of assistive technologies. And after presenting the elements of observation of the design practice of user-centered design, we discussed the need for certain specific practices and guidelines to be applied for the development of assistive technology. And we conclude that the application of user-centered design requires above all a higher level of perception and skills of the design team when it comes to subjects with disabilities.
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We thank CAPES for the financial support in the Assistive Technology Research and Development Network Project and the and CNPq for the financial support to present the paper at the IEA.
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Okimoto, M.L.L.R., Ribeiro, G.Y.A., Barbosa, M.L., Brogin, B., Marchi, S.R., Smithe, K. (2019). User-Centered Design: Ethical Issues. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_117
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