ERIC Number: EJ1066477
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 25
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Invoking the User from Data to Design
Tempelman-Kluit, Nadaleen; Pearce, Alexa
College & Research Libraries, v75 n5 p616-640 Sep 2014
Personas, stemming from the field of user-centered design (UCD), are hypothetical users that represent the behaviors, goals, and values of actual users. This study describes the creation of personas in an academic library. With the goal of leveraging service-generated data, the authors coded a sample of chat reference transcripts, producing two numeric values for each. The transcripts were plotted on an X/Y graph where X represented the nature of the user's information need and Y represented the nature of the user's motivation. A k-means cluster analysis of the plotted points produced four clusters, which served as the personas' basis.
Descriptors: Users (Information), Design, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Data, Transcripts (Written Records), Graphs, User Needs (Information), Motivation, Multivariate Analysis
Association of College and Research Libraries. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. e-mail: acrl@ala.org; Web site: http://crl.acrl.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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