A preliminary examination of using personas to enhance user-centered design

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 5782-5788

  Miaskiewicz, Tomasz ^a   Grant, Susan Jung ^a   Kozar, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Personas; Product design; User centered design; User requirements

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; EMPATHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; PERSONAS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER INFORMATION; USER NEED; USER REQUIREMENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84870377023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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