Personas Section (minimum 4 personas recommended)

Type: Primary

Name: James Jameson

Background

• Date of Birth: 10/23/1990
• Gender: Male
• Location: Iasi, Romania
• Work place: Awesome Company, Engineer
• School: Palo Alto High School

Main Points

• Experience with other smart assistant controlled by voice
• Works in an office
• Lives in a flat

Goals

• Use gestural controlled decives easier
• Control domotic devices with gestures
• Reduce number of steps on doing things
• Getting things done

Frustrations and Pain Points

• Too many steps on doing some things
• Possible overlap of gestures between devices
• Doing gestures several times because the system didn't detect them

Detailed Description

James is an Engineer and it is a stressful job, so he wants to get things working at home as easy and intuitive as possible when he comes home after a hard day at the office, being always at least as fast as the way they work now. Also, the user doesn't want to feel stupid having to make a weird dance every time he wants to turn on the TV.

References

• Fluid Personas;
• An introduction to personas and how to create them;
• The Persona Lifecycle, Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design , John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin;
• This version of Personas Template includes microdata markup using schema.org Schemas.

Scenarios

James arrives at home and, by using a couple of specific gestures, has his kitchen robot preparing dinner and the news on TV.

Other Details

Type: Customer

Name: Agnes Dogerty

Background

• Date of Birth: 09/02/1959
• Gender: Female
• Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Work place: Mersey Hotel, Hotel owner

Main Points

• To be used in a hotel by the customers of it

Goals

• Improve the efficiency of her hotel
• Get more money from the hotel

Frustrations and Pain Points

• Difficulties to learn the gestures
• Confuse one gesture with another one and get not desired results
• Get everything working properly

Detailed Description

Agnes wants his hotel to be computerized for his customers to be easier (and even funnier) to do things like switch on/off the lights, control the TV...
She wants this device also to improve the efficiency of her hotel and get more revenue from it.

References

• Fluid Personas;
• An introduction to personas and how to create them;
• The Persona Lifecycle, Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design , John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin;
• This version of Personas Template includes microdata markup using schema.org Schemas.

Scenarios

Customers of Mersey Hotel would use Geco in their room to control the lights, the TV, the radio and the air conditioner.

Other Details

Type: Secondary

Name: Rosa Escobar

Background

• Date of Birth: 11/28/1995
• Gender: Female
• Location: Gijón, Spain
• Work place: Sony Music, Singer

Main Points

• The working environment is a music studio
• Experience with mixers
• Should be fast, to be used in the middle of a recording session

Goals

• Control mixer while she is recording songs
• Create new sounds with this new method of working
• Reduce difficulty of mixing to get more songs done in less time and finish and sell the albums earlier

Frustrations and Pain Points

• Confuse one gesture with another one and get not desired results
• Get hands off the instruments for too much time for doing the gestures

Detailed Description

Rosa wants to control the music studio while she is recording, to be able to add sounds and special effects to their songs in an easy way, even while recording, playing the guitar.

References

• Fluid Personas;
• An introduction to personas and how to create them;
• The Persona Lifecycle, Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design , John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin;
• This version of Personas Template includes microdata markup using schema.org Schemas.

Scenarios

Rosa is recording a song in her home studio and she wants to increase the volume of her guitar in the middle of a song. For this, she would do a fast gesture with her hand and the mixer would increase the sound of just the guitar.

Other Details

Type: Secondary

Name: Ivan Illich

Background

• Date of Birth: 05/15/1974
• Gender: Male
• Location: Moscow, Russia
• Work place: Illich Co., CEO

Main Points

• Already using a traditional security system
• Would be used by him and his family
• Needs customizable gestures to be safer

Goals

• Ensure his family and house

Frustrations and Pain Points

• Activate system by mistake
• Don't remember the gesture to unlock the system
• Get "hacked" and getting robbed because someone guessed the gesture

Detailed Description

Ivan wants to use this device as security system on his door, to make his home more secure.
He lives in a dangerous city and wants his family to be safe against thieves and be woke up if something happens.
This system should also have a customizable gesture to be switched on/off, in order to be more difficult to be hacked.

References

• Fluid Personas;
• An introduction to personas and how to create them;
• The Persona Lifecycle, Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design , John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin;
• This version of Personas Template includes microdata markup using schema.org Schemas.

Scenarios

Ivan goes to sleep at night, but before he turns on the security system by doing a couple of gestures in his door. Later at night someone tries to enter the house, the system detects it and it immediately wakes up Ivan and calls the police.

Other Details