Inés Alvarez-IcazaTecnológico de Monterrey | ITESM · Institute for the Future of Education
Inés Alvarez-Icaza
Doctor of Engineering
Designer and educator. My research areas are Education Technology, Inclusive design, UX & Participative process.
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Introduction
When relating to technological devices, users often experience a trial-and-error process to thrive in such systems' usage and interaction. This process eventually leads to a better comprehension of the product or service (PSS); however, relevant information about non-typical user's needs gets lost. This group includes elderly adults, indigenous communities, people with certain disabilities, and in some parts of the globe, women still belong to this group.
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August 2014 - present
Education
September 1996 - May 2001
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Publications (17)
Adaptive learning strategies applied to e-learning have become a relevant approach towards diversity and inclusion. They bring several benefits to learners in the role of digital platform users, related to the user experience, primarily in the learning process optimization. It aims to provide mediation, tailored content, and adequate channels for u...
M. Morales-Chan, M.I. Despujol-Zabala, R.Hernández-Rizzardini, M. S. Ramirez-Montoya, F. Casilas, .A Patiño, V. Rodés, C. Alcántar, E. Carmona, L. Glasserman, .É Pacheco, .1 Alvarez-Icaza, J. Talamás-Carvajal, .P Suárez-Brito, J. Vázquez-Parra, .RMendoza- Urdiales, .E Rondon-Jara, .B M. Aponte-Babines, .1 .C Pelaez-Sánchez, M. Rodriguez-Diaz , .G B...
Entrepreneurial thinking is considered a desirable competency in the profile of today’s professionals because it includes sub-competencies that strengthen individuals’ leadership capacity and stimulate the development of creative solutions that present a high impact on society. However, it has been detected that disadvantaged communities located in...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) development with an inclusive vision will not happen without the design theory and committed practice, but neither can it be carried out from a biased in-a-silo design vision. Having as its primary goal to augment human capacities, it is crucial to overcome the bias produced by human fuzziness. The application of the DM...
Rapid technological evolution defines the first two decades of the millennium. This phenomenon has increased the digital gap, disparities, and inequalities in global and local contexts. This paper reports a systematic literature mapping of 180 articles published from 2000 to 2021 discussing the digital gap. The documents were retrieved using boolea...
The concept “non-typical users” comprises people who experience significant digital gaps that alienate them from the benefits of technology. This issue is commonly experienced as unsatisfying interactions with technological products or devices that show not flexible possibilities as a core feature. Accordingly, this research contemplates including...
Nowadays, complex thinking remains a critical topic for researchers and academicians in higher education. It is considered a core competency for designing and developing solutions proposals for current societal problems. However, there is still a need to create and implement innovative teaching-learning systems and initiatives that support training...
Current tendencies of product, project and services development focus on a higher consideration of the User Experience (UX). Therefore, traditional training and teaching methodologies need to adapt to prepare the students to develop strategies for problem solving for their professional education. Such needs have risen and interest in tendencies suc...
We are aware already that the world is facing a milestone. The transitions to the millennium’s second decade are forcing transformative agents to embrace new perspectives. Spotting that design is a powerful change agent, design practitioners search for different-novel approaches to learn from humankind’s missteps. Some of those “mistakes” are syste...
This paper presents the process to build and maintain a collective project between five design schools in Mexico City. In 2018, the Inter-University Design Workshop started as an "innovative education project that understands design as a mean for linking students and design faculty to the construction of open, diverse, and collective platforms for...
The Smart, Sensing and Sustainable Systems paradigm, known as the “S3 concept”, aims to promote the evolution of companies and academic environments through shared and adaptable knowledge. Therefore, this advancement follows new integrated products and services systems (PSS) designed to integrate everyone, everywhere, including non-typical users, i...
En el año 2017, alumnos de quinto semestre de las carreras de Diseño Industrial y Arquitectura del Tecnológico de Monterrey, en el Campus Ciudad de México, desarrollaron pautas de diseño para la escuela pública mexicana, dirigidas a los niveles de educación básica. En el proyecto denominado "Hábitat para el aprendizaje", se contó con la participaci...
Escribo este texto a solicitud, ya que he aprendido el valor de ser viento a favor en un trabajo de investigación. Dirijo mis palabras a quien tenga interés en obtener un grado de maestría, en una de las más prestigiadas universidades del país. Espero que mi experiencia le permita al lector conocer los escenarios en los que la formación académic...
El río Magdalena nace en la Sierra de las Cruces, a 3600 msnm, en la Delegación Cuajimalpa, al sur-poniente del Distrito Federal. Su extensión es de 28.2 km, desde su na-cimiento hasta su punto de incorporación al sistema de drenaje en la avenida Río Churubusco. El área total de la cuenca es de 3520.63 ha, superficie que abarca cuatro de-legaciones...
