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To develop usable software we need to understand the users that will interact with the system. Personas is a HCI technique that gathers information about users in order to comprehend their characteristics. This information is used to define fictitious persons on which development should focus. Personas provides an understanding of the user, often overlooked in SE developments. We aim to improve requirements elicitation through the use of Personas. We have systematized and formalized Personas in the SE tradition in order to build this new version of the technique into the requirements stage.
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Castro, J.W., Acuña, S.T. (2012). Extension of Personas Technique for the Requirements Stage. In: Cipolla-Ficarra, F., Veltman, K., Cipolla-Ficarra, M., Kratky, A. (eds) Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems. CCGIDIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7545. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33760-4_8
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