Um guia de requisitos de softwares educativos para mulheres

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have demonstrated a crucial role in enabling gender equality, and are also one of the goals of the United Nations (UN). This paper presents a guide of recommendations to guide developers in the process of specifying educational software for women, thus facilitating the gathering of requirements for this audience. The guide was created based on the Design Thinking approach and, through Empathy, used a technique based on Personas through a case study of self-employed women from the Tucuruí Lake Region. It is estimated that through the adoption of this guide there will be greater ease in defining requirements and incentive in the creation of educational applications for women.