In research led by Joni Salminen, we investigate the existence of demographic bias in automatically generated personas by producing personas from YouTube Analytics data. Despite the intended objectivity of the methodology, we find elements of bias in the data-driven personas. The bias is highest when doing an exact match comparison, and the bias decreases when […]
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In this research, colleagues and I address a relatively new issue in the field of personas, too much data resulting in too many personas. Creating personas from actual online user information is an advantage of the data-driven persona approach. However, modern online systems often provide big data from millions of users. These user display vastly
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In this research, we collect monthly content consumption and demographic data from YouTube over two years for a large media publisher. We use automation to generate 15 personas each month. Then, we examine the consistency of the generated personas over time. We find that there are 35 unique personas in total for the entire period.
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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. Always good to get a fresh perspective! ——– Reflection of Personas from a Beginner by Jaad Mohammed Before starting my internship at QCRI with the APG team, I had no idea about the concept of personas. At my introductory meeting, I
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ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known simply as ‘CHI’) is the top conference in human-computer interaction (HCI). Personas, as a design technique, strongly related to the domain of HCI, which is why our team’s research efforts are centered around CHI as well as other HCI conferences and journals. Anyhow, this year,
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Hi everyone! We have compiled a large Zotero collection of persona research titled “Persona Research (APG team)“. This collection contains 327 items, topics consisting of persona user studies, persona creation methods, quantitative persona creation (and related method papers), conceptual persona papers, and empirical persona research. You can apply for access here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2331485/persona_research_apg_team Read more about
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Goal We wanted to build the biggest list of interview questions for persona creation. This list should (a) be built from as many questions as possible to cover all aspects of persona profile creation, (b) contain no duplicates, and (c) have the questions sorted in meaningful themes so that they are easier to interpret and
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