Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2017

Abstract

One of the reasons for using personas is to align user understandings across project teams and sites. As part of a larger persona study, at Al Jazeera English (AJE), we conducted 16 qualitative interviews with media producers, the end users of persona descriptions. We asked the participants about their understanding of a typical AJE media consumer, and the variety of answers shows that the understandings are not aligned and are built on a mix of own experiences, own self, assumptions, and data given by the company. The answers are sometimes aligned with the data-driven personas and sometimes not. The end users are divided in two groups: news producers who have little interest in having data-based insights of news consumers and producers for social media platforms who have more interest in this information.

Keywords

User experience, Automation, Journalism, Personas

Discipline

Automotive Engineering | Databases and Information Systems

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, Australia, November 28 - December 1

First Page

602

Last Page

606

ISBN

9781450353793

Identifier

10.1145/3152771.3156178

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

City or Country

Brisbane, Australia

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3156178

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