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The methodology of "personas" is a well-known procedure and very often used for characterizing target users in user-centered design projects. Very often, personas are represented by a picture. This paper introduces a different approach to present the results of a user analysis study with the goal to increase assimilation and comprehension of a project’s personas. We believe that creating and developing a new concept enhancing “personas” with their context, giving less importance to the image of the person with a silhouette and adding an image of their main scenarios can make more impact in our organizations. To verify our idea we conducted a study to evaluate which format - "personas" with a picture and "personas" with their contexts – worked better.
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Valls, A., Garreta-Domingo, M., López, M. (2011). Enhancing Personas with Their Main Scenarios. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Design and Development Approaches. HCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6761. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21602-2_16
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