Jim Jansen

Dr. Jansen is a Principal Scientist in the social computing group of the Qatar Computing Research Institute, and a professor with the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, and an adjunct professor with the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a graduate of West Point and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University, along with master degrees from Texas A&M (computer science) and Troy State (international relations). Dr. Jim Jansen served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry enlisted soldier and communication commissioned officer.

Creating More Personas Improves Representation of Demographically Diverse Populations: Implications Towards Interactive Persona Systems

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Personas represent distinct user types. However, while online user data can be demographically and behaviorally heterogeneous, most studies generate less than ten personas, regardless of how heterogeneous the data is. Because all persona creation efforts need to assign a number of personas to create, assigning this number evokes a fundamental question, How many personas to […]

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Intentionally Biasing User Representation?: Investigating the Pros and Cons of Removing Toxic Quotes from Social Media Personas

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Algorithmically generated personas can help organizations understand their social media audiences. However, when using algorithms to create personas from social media user data, the resulting personas may contain toxic quotes that negatively affect content creators’ perceptions of the personas. To address this issue, we have implemented toxicity detection in an algorithmic persona generation system capable

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Personas for your non-customers – the Edge, the Refuse, and Unknown non-customers

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Personas can be a force multiplier in reaching your three categories of non-customers – the Edge Non-customers, the Refuse Non-customers, and Unknown Non-customers. Algorithmically-Generated Personas are great for humanized representation of your existing customers presented in understandable chunks of information. These data-driven personas are great for team communication while creating content and designing systems, along

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Qualitative Personas: Strengths and Weaknesses

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Personas are a technique for enhanced understanding of users and customers to improve the user-centered design of systems and products. Their creation can be categorized using three persona creation methodologies: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods. In this post, we describe the Qualitative method and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology for persona development.

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Creating More Personas Improves Representation of Demographically Diverse Populations: Implications Towards Interactive Persona Systems

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Personas represent distinct user types. However, while online user data can be demographically and behaviorally heterogeneous, most studies generate less than ten personas, regardless of how heterogeneous the data is. Because all persona creation efforts need to assign a number of personas to create, assigning this number evokes a fundamental question, How many personas to

Creating More Personas Improves Representation of Demographically Diverse Populations: Implications Towards Interactive Persona Systems Read More »

Intentionally Biasing User Representation?: Investigating the Pros and Cons of Removing Toxic Quotes from Social Media Personas

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Algorithmically generated personas can help organizations understand their social media audiences. However, when using algorithms to create personas from social media user data, the resulting personas may contain toxic quotes that negatively affect content creators’ perceptions of the personas. To address this issue, we have implemented toxicity detection in an algorithmic persona generation system capable

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Persona Preparedness: A Survey Instrument for Measuring the Organizational Readiness for Deploying Personas

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Organizational user-centric design is crucial for developing information technology that offers optimal usability and user experience. Personas are a central user-centered design technique that puts people before technology and helps decision makers understand the needs and wants of the end-user segments of their products, systems, and services. However, it is not clear how ready organizations

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