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New technologies associated with the fourth industrial revolution are transforming the world in which we live, and the power grid is no exception since it has been provided with intelligence. One of its best-known applications is smart metering systems that allow real-time energy consumption/production to be known, as well as other benefits such as outages and reconnections automatically. The new generations of smart meters have more computing capacity allowing new applications. This work shows some considerations in the design of smart meters using human-computer interaction techniques. The results aim to improve the end-user’s experience and satisfaction and can help to mitigate the reluctance to use smart metering systems in Mexico.;

In emergent economies such as Mexican, most schools lack resources to cover or develop programs when teachers assess children with special needs. Teaching practice for children with learning difficulties require, for instance, welltrained therapists, special learning materials, adequate classroom settings, and supportive technology equipment. KAPEAN is a software tool that offers a set of educational activities that can help therapists organize interventions with children where attention, memory, visouspatial, and reasoning skills are reinforced. Data collected from the participant's experiences is processed in order to get insights of the performance and concentration exposed by children. Results inform that there are activities with a higher level of difficulty than others regarding cognition and interactional experience. The activity demanding memory skills was especially difficult for all of the participants. It was also found that the level of concentration children have when developing a task might be influencing their performance.