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.

Developing Persona Analytics Towards Persona Science

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Much of the reported work on personas suffers from the lack of empirical evidence. To address this issue, we introduce Persona Analytics (PA), a system that tracks how users interact with algorithmically-generated personas. PA captures users’ mouse and gaze behavior to measure users’ interaction with algorithmically generated personas and use of system features for an interactive […]

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Do players communicate differently depending on the champion played? Exploring the Proteus effect in League of Legends

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Interested in online gaming research? You might find this article of interest. In a different take on ‘personas’, we investigate how the Proteus effect, which is players changing their way of communication based on characters with which they play, is associated with players’ champion usage in the popular online game League of Legends, where champions

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Toxic Text in Personas: An Experiment on User Perceptions

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When algorithms create personas from social media data, the personas can become noxious via automatically including toxic comments. To investigate how users perceive such personas, we conducted a 2 × 2 user experiment with 496 participants that showed participants toxic and non-toxic versions of data-driven personas. We found that participants gave higher credibility, likability, empathy,

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SME Personas: Creating Customer Personas for Small to Medium-sized Enterprises

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Customer Understanding for SMEs Customer understanding is an integral part of a business, whether a big business, a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), or small to medium-sized business (SMB), and it is crucial for a small business in a competitive market.  Customer personas can help your SME in this customer understanding. Though it may seem

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Developing Email Marketing Personas for Increased Campaign Performance

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Personas are often used in user system design, but personas are not as widely used with email marketing campaigns, which is a mistake. They are an extremely valuable tool for the email team. Organizations are missing out on potentially increased marketing performance by not employing email marketing personas. Email marketing personas are personas created from

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What’s in a Persona Name?: Naming Personas Using A Data-Driven Approach

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“Call me Ishmael.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) Names are an incredibly important part of a people’s identity, carrying societal, personal, cultural, religious, ethnic, and/or nationality impressions. A name conveys the groups, communities, and population of a person or even a fictitious character (as in the case of Ishmael, the narrator in the book, Moby Dick)

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