Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies

Dhaval Vyas; Spencer De Groot; Gerrit C. Van Der Veer

doi:10.1145/1274892.1274915

Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies

Dhaval Vyas, Spencer De Groot, Gerrit C. Van Der Veer

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Abstract

Ethnographic methods have been widely used for requirements elicitation purposes in systems design, especially when the focus is on understanding users' social, cultural and political contexts. Designing an online search engine for peer-reviewed papers could be a challenge considering the diversity of its end users coming from different educational and professional disciplines. This poster describes our exploration of academic research environments based on different in situ methods such as contextual interviews, diary-keeping, job-shadowing, etc. The data generated from these methods is analysed using a qualitative data analysis software and subsequently is used for developing 'personas' that could be used as a requirements specification tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
Subtitle of host publication	Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13
Pages	119-120
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1274892.1274915
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: Sep 20 2006 → Sep 22 2006

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	250

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Conference	13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	09/20/06 → 09/22/06

Keywords

Ethnography
In situ approaches
Online search engine
Persona
Requirement specifications

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Vyas, D., De Groot, S., & Van Der Veer, G. C. (2006). Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13 (pp. 119-120). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 250). https://doi.org/10.1145/1274892.1274915

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Vyas, D, De Groot, S & Van Der Veer, GC 2006, Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies. in Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 250, pp. 119-120, 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/20/06. https://doi.org/10.1145/1274892.1274915

Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies. / Vyas, Dhaval; De Groot, Spencer; Van Der Veer, Gerrit C.
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13. 2006. p. 119-120 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 250).

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