Quo vadis “interaction design and children, older and disabled” in America and Europe?

Abstract

We present a first overview with regard to a set of users of interactive systems who, by some members of the social sciences, are regarded as simple goods or customers because of the revenue they generate in R&D pseudo-projects. Both in the EU as well as in America those “pseudo-projects” are often totally financed by the public or private sector. Besides, we establish the north of the compass, looking at a real crossroads that millions of users must face daily in the view of pseudo scientists who do not have either the theoretical and/or practical knowledge, nor the competence and human skills in the treatment towards that kind of users. Finally, we explain a set of heuristic techniques to discover those pseudo scientific investigations, such as the profile of those professionals not capable of such research.