Persona and Persona Profile A persona is a humanized representation of a user segment, audience segment, or customer segment. The persona is presented in a persona profile. A persona profile is the actual representation of the persona. So, a persona is a conceptualize. The person profile is the physical manifestation of that concept. The persona […]
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In a previous post, we analyzed the demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures that raised a concern that the generated images might not fairly represent all demographic groups. In this post, we discuss if these artificially generated pictures are good enough for use in personas profiles for real-world systems and applications, which are highly
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Persona Transparency: Analyzing the Impact of Explanations on Perceptions of Data-Driven Personas Computational techniques are becoming more common in persona development. However, users of personas may question the information in persona profiles because they are unsure of how it was created. This problem is especially vexing for data-driven personas because their creation is an opaque
Artificial generation of facial images is increasingly popular, with machine learning achieving photo-realistic results. Yet, there is a concern that the generated images might not fairly represent all demographic groups. This has implications for persona development when approaching the goal of generating the facial pictures for the persona profiles automatically. In research led by Joni Salminen,
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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– If you have ever wondered how photos or headshots are assigned to a persona profile by the AGP system? Well, you’ve come to the right place. First, you need to understand where exactly APG collects data and how it processes
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Creating personas from large amounts of online data is useful but difficult with manual methods. To address this difficulty, we present Automatic Persona Generation (APG), which is an implementation of a methodology for quantitatively generating data-driven personas from online social media data. APG is functional, and it is deployed with several organizations in multiple industry
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In this research on impact of smile on persona perceptions with Soon-gyo Jung, João Santos, and Jim Jansen, we find that persona profiles with a smiling photo result in an increase in perceived similarity with, likability of, and willingness to use a persona. However, a smile does not increase the credibility of a persona. Our
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