Personas and decision making in the design process: An ethnographic case study

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1209-1218

  Friess, Erin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Design decision making; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Personas; User centered design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISION-MAKING; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ETHNOGRAPHY; PERSONAS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862089419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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