Persona Adoption

Personas for your non-customers – the Edge, the Refuse, and Unknown non-customers

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Personas can be a force multiplier in reaching your three categories of non-customers – the Edge Non-customers, the Refuse Non-customers, and Unknown Non-customers. Algorithmically-Generated Personas are great for humanized representation of your existing customers presented in understandable chunks of information. These data-driven personas are great for team communication while creating content and designing systems, along […]

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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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The Effect of Experience on Persona Perceptions

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User perceptions of personas affect the adoption of personas for decision-making in real organizations. To investigate how experience affects the way an individual perceives a persona, in research led by Joni Salminen, we conduct an experimental study with individuals less and more experienced with personas.  Quantitative results show that previous experience increases several important perceptions, including

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