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Finding the Participants:
                          Profiles, Personas, and Backgrounds




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Step 1: Walkthrough



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Step 2:
                          Audience Analysis


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We do this for every
                          doc in tech comm.


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Who are the
                          stakeholders?




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Who is the
                          decision-maker?



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Who are the users?




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One of these things is
                           not like the others.



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users

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Who are you
                          talking to?




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develop user profiles.



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Characterize users.



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Who are these people,
                         anyway?


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What’s their story?



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The user of our web site reservation
                system travels at least a few times a year
                and stays in a hotel each time. He or she
                typically books his or her own travel
                online, especially leisure travel. He or she
                may belong to hotel rewards programs.
                                                      ( R&C 116)




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does some info
                           already exist?


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Existing Docs:
      Product Spec Documents
      BRD (Business Req. Doc)
      Marketing Studies




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if not, then it’s on you.



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Define User Groups



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Novice
                          Expert
                          Etc.


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But also:



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definitions will vary by
                          testing site.


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You get to decide
                   how users are defined.


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Requirements and
                 Classifiers for Selection


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Requirements:




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Requirements:
                   What participants must come into the session
                   knowing already.
                                                          (R&C 121)




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Classifiers:




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Classifiers:
                   help you put participants into categories (or
                   groups) that may explain some effects you see
                   in the test.
                                                           (R&C 121)




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document user profiles



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• Age
                   • Gender
                   • Education Level
                   • Experience
                   • Skills
                   • Attitudes
                   • Culture
                   • Class / income level
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site-specific
                          characteristics


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in the end, you should
                        be able to describe


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range of skills
                            behaviors
                           experience


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Every end user falls
                 somewhere within your
                       spectrum.


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and then within
                            categories.


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Determine the Number of Participants



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• degree of confidence required in results
                    • number of available resources to set up &
                          develop the test

                    • available of type of participants you require
                    • duration of test sessions

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We are humans
                          constrained by
                          space and time.


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internal participants:
              • Test the test
              • Exploratory research
              • “Best case” testing




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External participants



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screen & select



Monday, February 20, 12
schedule & confirm



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