HCI and personas

How does varying the number of personas affect user perceptions and behavior? Challenging the ‘small personas’ hypothesis!

By /

Studies in human-computer interaction recommend creating fewer than ten personas based on stakeholders’ limitations to cognitively process and use personas. However, no existing studies offer empirical support for having fewer rather than more personas. Investigating this matter, thirty-seven participants interacted with five and fifteen personas using an interactive persona system, choosing one persona to design …

How does varying the number of personas affect user perceptions and behavior? Challenging the ‘small personas’ hypothesis! Read More »

Resources about the book, Data-Driven Personas

By /

Several resources about the book, Data-Driven Personas, are available! The book … Jansen, B. J., Salminen, J., Jung, S.G., and Guan, K. (2021). Data-Driven Personas. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics,1 Carroll, J. (Ed). Morgan-Claypool: San Rafael, CA., 4:1, i-317. Data-Driven Personas on Amazon. Associated Resources The website … Data-Driven Personas http://www.data-drivenpersonas.com The infographic … Data-Driven Persona Book Infographic http://www.bernardjjansen.com/uploads/2/4/1/8/24188166/data-driven_personas_book_infographic.pdf The …

Resources about the book, Data-Driven Personas Read More »

Using the book Data-Driven Personas for Teaching

By /

Hi, Professor! Planning your HCI, design, UX, advertising, content creation, marketing, or related course for the upcoming semester? Consider using the book Data-Driven Personas in your course. There are MANY advantages to using this book for your course!

How to Create Personas: Steps Using the Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed Method Approach

By /

Personas have broad applicability for digital innovation, giving their applicability for human centered user, customer, and audience understanding in activities such as product development, design, testing, content creation, and marketing. It is important that a persona is fictional (not an actual individual) yet realistic (based on real data from actual users). The persona technique has …

How to Create Personas: Steps Using the Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed Method Approach Read More »

Data-Driven Persona Book: APG – How it all began!

By /

We are putting the finished touches on our book, Data-Driven Personas by Bernard J. Jansen, Joni O. Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, and Kathleen Guan, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and University College London. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Here’s how it all began!