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Child-personas: fact or fiction?

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Alissa Nicole AntleAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142411

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

Abstract

This paper introduces a practice-based, child-centric method of creating child-user archetypes which extends adult-based persona theory to interaction design with children. Persona construction can help interaction designers better understand real child-users and result in rich child-user archetypes which are developmentally situated and contextually valid. Key differences between adult-personas and child-personas are highlighted. A description of an online mentoring application created for CBC4Kids.ca illustrates the value of child-personas in design practice.

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