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.

Manually and Automatically Generated Personas

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While there have been attempts to “modernize” personas by automating their creation and tying the concept to behavioral online analytics data, the question remains: can data-driven personas offer efficiency and/or effectiveness value relative to other analytics approaches and data representations for user understanding tasks? This question remains largely unaddressed in the previous research, even for personas […]

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Job candidate personas for human resources (HR personas)

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In this competitive market, finding the right candidate can be a complex and time-consuming process for a business. To reduce such complexity, human resources (HR) professional employ the method of profiling candidate personas. Job candidate personas can play an important role in choosing the right or ideal candidate for a specific job position. Data-driven personas

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Personas and Empathy Mapping for Understanding Customers and Users

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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– Personas are an effective way to target a specific customer base, since we have a better understanding of who that customer base is and what those customers want, need, or desire. In other words, personas provide a means to empathize

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SEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2

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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– SEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2 by Jaad Mohammed. (Read Part 1.) In this blog post, we discuss persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) or SEO personas. For this, we need to

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SEO Personas: Persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO), Part 1

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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– SEO Personas: Persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO), Part 1 by Jaad Mohammed. Read Part 2. Search engine optimization (SEO) is defined as the process of increasing the quality and quantity of website traffic by raising the visibility of a website

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Benefits of Data-Driven Personas

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Data-driven personas have the advantages of both personas and analytics! See this open access article for the full story – Data-Driven Personas for Enhanced User Understanding: Combining Empathy with Rationality for Better Insights to Analytics Remarkably, with the combining of personas and analytics, the strengths of each approach help offset the deficiencies of the other.

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