Although personas have been applied for two decades, little is known about why a designer chooses a specific persona for a given design task. This question matters because if designers prefer one persona over another, then the needs and attributes of that persona would be favored in the design process, resulting in possible “blind spots”…… Continue reading The Choice of a Persona: An Inductive Analysis of Why Stakeholders Choose a Given Persona for a Design Task
Month: August 2024
How Could Natural Language Processing Help Address Grand Challenges of Quantitative User Personas
Human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP) can collaborate. This article summarizes previous literature to identify grand challenges for applying NLP in quantitative user personas (QUPs), which exemplifies such collaboration. Grand challenges provide a collaborative starting point for researchers working at the intersection of NLP and QUPs, towards improved user experiences. NLP research…… Continue reading How Could Natural Language Processing Help Address Grand Challenges of Quantitative User Personas