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The Link Persona

Author : J. M. Richard
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608604861
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Link Persona written by J. M. Richard and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Link Persona is a provocative, chilling and timely book about the world's rapid spiral into a nation controlled by inhabitants from another world. Alfajet is an astute man, grasping concepts and theories quickly. Friends with everyone of different races, cultures and creeds, his life reflects his beliefs. That is, until the others came to Earth, and Alfajet shifts his persona in order to adapt. Mysterious toxins are poisoning human, plant and animal life. Humans are being abducted by aliens from a different world. People not prepared for the Armageddon are caught off guard and suffer from manic behavior. The wealthy go mad and the vulnerable and meek become strong. Darkness, rain, and enormous storms rain down everywhere and humans will have to learn to be content and share their planet. Will they learn that nature has control? Will they lessen their own control and greed before it's too late for mankind and for all life on Earth before it's too late? J.M. Richard has written a riveting thriller that not only delivers top-notch action from the first page, but reflects a canny and unsettling foreshadowing of what our world could become. J.M. Richard is an American citizen born in Kenya, East Africa. Mr. Richard graduated from the East Africa School of Theology and then attended Cal State for his post graduate work. He has spent two decades in the fields of religious ministry and motivational speaking to teens and young adults all over the world. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

The Persona Lifecycle

Author : John Pruitt
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080455730
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book The Persona Lifecycle written by John Pruitt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persona Lifecycle is a field guide exclusively focused on interaction design's most popular new technique. The Persona Lifecycle addresses the "how" of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe the value of personas; it offers detailed techniques and tools related to planning, creating, communicating, and using personas to create great product designs. Moreover, it provides rich examples, samples, and illustrations to imitate and model. Perhaps most importantly, it positions personas not as a panacea, but as a method used to complement other user-centered design (UCD) techniques including scenario-based design, cognitive walkthroughs and user testing. The authors developed the Persona Lifecycle model to communicate the value and practical application of personas to product design and development professionals. This book explores the complete lifecycle of personas, to guide the designer at each stage of product development. It includes a running case study with rich examples and samples that demonstrate how personas can be used in building a product end-to-end. It also presents recommended best practices in techniques, tools, and innovative methods and contains hundreds of relevant stories, commentary, opinions, and case studies from user experience professionals across a variety of domains and industries. This book will be a valuable resource for UCD professionals, including usability practitioners, interaction designers, technical writers, and program managers; programmers/developers who act as the interaction designers for software; and those professionals who work with developers and designers. Features * Presentation and discussion of the complete lifecycle of personas, to guide the designer at each stage of product development. * A running case study with rich examples and samples that demonstrate how personas can be used in building a product end-to-end. * Recommended best practices in techniques, tools, and innovative methods. * Hundreds of relevant stories, commentary, opinions, and case studies from user experience professionals across a variety of domains and industries.

The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network

Author : Hsin-Hsi Chen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642347525
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network written by Hsin-Hsi Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, held in Taipei, China, in November 2012. The 27 revised full papers, 17 revised short papers, and 13 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cultural heritage preservation, retrieval and browsing in digital libraries, biliometrics, metadata and cataloguing, mobile and cloud computing, human factors in digital library, presevation systems and algorithms, social media, digital library algorithms and systems, recommendation applications and social networks.

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

Author : Tamara Adlin
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9780123814197
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas written by Tamara Adlin and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2010-03-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation on why the particular tool or method is the right one. The book discusses the five phases of persona lifecycle: Family planning — Basic ideas and a few tools that will help one get organized Conception and gestation — Step-by-step instructions to move from assumptions to completed personas Birth and maturation — Strategic techniques to get the right information about ones personas out to ones your teammates at the right time Adulthood — Specific tools that will ensure that ones personas are used by the right people at the right times and in the right ways during the product development cycle Lifetime achievement and retirement — Basic ideas and a few tools to you measure the success of the persona effort and prepare for the next one Practical and immediately applicable how-to reference guide for building and using personas – from planning, creating, launching, evaluating, and determining ROI Invaluable guide that gives you a quick reference for incorporating personas into a product development process Features all the essential how-to material from its parent book, The Persona Lifecycle, as a quick, at your fingertips companion

Persona 3

Author : Atlus
Publisher : Udon Entertainment Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781927925256
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Persona 3 written by Atlus and published by Udon Entertainment Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Featuring the character designs of Shigenori Soejima! Go behind the scenes of Persona 3, one of the most unique and respected RPG's ever. Inside you'll find character designs, rough sketches, storyboards, backgrounds and settings, an exclusive interview with the game's creators, and more!

Personas - User Focused Design

Author : Lene Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1447174275
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Personas - User Focused Design written by Lene Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People relate to other people, not to simplified types or segments. This is the concept that underpins this book. Personas, a user centered design methodology, covers topics from interaction design within IT, through to issues surrounding product design, communication, and marketing. Project developers need to understand how users approach their products from the product’s infancy, and regardless of what the product might be. Developers should be able to describe the user of the product via vivid depictions, as if they – with their different attitudes, desires and habits – were already using the product. In doing so they can more clearly formulate how to turn the product's potential into reality. Based on 20 years’ experience in solving problems for businesses and 15 years of research, currently at the IT University of Copenhagen, Lene Nielsen is Denmark’s leading expert in the persona method. She has a PhD in personas and scenarios, and through her research and practical experiences has developed her own approach to the method – 10 Steps to Personas. This second edition of Personas – User Focused Design presents a step-by-step methodology of personas which will be of interest to developers of IT, communications solutions and innovative products. This book also includes three new chapters and considerable expansion on the material in the first edition.

Fan Game Guide: Persona 4 Golden Edition

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Publisher : CATEK International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fan Game Guide: Persona 4 Golden Edition written by and published by CATEK International. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Persona Studies

Author : P. David Marshall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118935071
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Persona Studies written by P. David Marshall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary culture Modern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identities and transformed contemporary culture, revealing an expanded and intensified reforming of our collective online behavior. Billions of people worldwide are increasingly engaged in the production, presentation, and modification of their public selves—curating personas through various social media and fundamentally altering how we interact in the twenty-first century. The study of persona is essential to understanding contemporary culture, yet literature in this emerging field is scarce. Filling a gap in current knowledge, Persona Studies: An Introduction is the first major work to examine the construction, delivery, and curation of public identities in contemporary online culture. This timely book helps readers navigate the changing cultural landscape while laying the groundwork for further research and application of persona studies. Three case studies are included—examining personas of the artist, gamer, and professional—to illustrate how personas continue to transform identity and reshape contemporary culture. From the historical precursors of the current iteration of persona to emerging configurations of public self, this unique work offers readers a broad introduction to the evolving theories and concepts of how persona defines the contemporary condition and its relation to technology and collective identity. To summarize, the book: Analyzes how identities linked to data are cultivated, curated and mined for various purposes Discusses the mediated blending of media and different types of interpersonal communication Explores tools for the investigation and analysis of persona, including Prosopographic field studies and information visualization Translates new research, concept, theories, methods, and approaches into clear case studies and applications Examines the personalization of public, private, and intimate information in the building of new personas Persona Studies: An Introduction is an innovative resource for students, academics, researchers, and professionals in fields covering digital and social media, technology and culture, mass media and communications, social and media psychology and sociology, and professional studies.

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction

Author : Ghaoui, Claude
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591407982
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction written by Ghaoui, Claude and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta enciclopedia presenta numerosas experiencias y discernimientos de profesionales de todo el mundo sobre discusiones y perspectivas de la la interacción hombre-computadoras

Personas - User Focused Design

Author : Lene Nielsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447140842
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Personas - User Focused Design written by Lene Nielsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People relate to other people, not to simplified types or segments. This is the concept that underpins this book. Personas, a user centered design methodology covers topics from interaction design within IT, through to issues surrounding product design, communication, and marketing. Project developers need to understand how users approach their products from the product’s infancy, and regardless of what the product might be. Developers should be able to describe the user of the product via vivid depictions, as if they – with their different attitudes, desires and habits – were already using the product. In doing so they can more clearly formulate how to turn the product's potential into reality. With contributions from professionals from Australia, Brazil, Finland, Japan, Russia, and the UK presenting real-world examples of persona method, this book will provide readers with valuable insights into this exciting research area. The inspiration to create user descriptions includes character-driven narratives, and the film Thelma & Louise is analyzed in order to understand how the development process can also be an engaging story in various professional contexts. With a solid foundation in her own research at the IT University of Copenhagen and more than five years of experience in solving problems for businesses, Lene Nielsen is Denmark’s leading expert in the persona method. She has a PhD in personas and scenarios, and through her research and practical experiences she has developed her own approach to the method – 10 Steps to Personas. Personas – User Focused Design presents a step-by-step methodology of personas which will be of interest to developers of IT, communications solutions and innovative products.

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design

Author : Waldemar Karwowski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420046284
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design written by Waldemar Karwowski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the application of human factors and ergonomics principles to reducing risks of malfunction and the total life cycle cost, well, the process just seems to get more complex. Edited by well-known and well-respected experts, the two-volumes of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design simplify this process. The first volume, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design: Methods and Techniques, outlines the how to incorporate Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E) principles and knowledge into the design of consumer products in a variety of applications. It discusses the user-centered design process, starting with how mental workload affects every day interactions with consumer products and what lessons may be applied to product design. The book then highlights the ever-increasing role of information technology, including digital imaging, video and other media, and virtual reality applications in consumer product design. It also explores user-centered aspect of consumer product development with discussions of user-centered vs. task-based approach, articulation and assessment of user requirements and needs, interaction with design models, and eco design. With contributions from a team of researchers from 21 countries, the book covers the current state of the art methods and techniques of product ergonomics. It provides an increased knowledge of how to apply the HF/E principles that ultimately leads to better product design.

Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

Author : Kirsti Niskanen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030496066
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona written by Kirsti Niskanen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions. Focusing on gender and embodiment, the contributors analyse the situated performance of scholarly identity and its social and intellectual contexts and consequences. Disciplinary cultures, scholarly practices, personal habits, and a range of social, economic, and political circumstances shape the people and formations of modern scholarship. Featuring a foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations is of interest to historians, sociologists, media and culture scholars, and all those with a stake in the personal dimensions of scholarship. An international group of scholars present original examinations of travel, globalisation, exchange, training, evaluation, self-representation, institution-building, norm-setting, virtue-defining, myth-making, and other gendered and embodied modes and mechanisms of scholarly persona-work. These accounts nuance and challenge existing understandings of the relationship between knowledge and identity.

Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music

Author : Stefanie Kiwi Menrath
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839442567
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music written by Stefanie Kiwi Menrath and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral and ontologically precarious. How can scholars research anonymous entities without impairing their anonymity, and what can they learn from their precarity? This study describes two projects of anonymity performance as forms of critical practice (Judith Butler/Michel Foucault) involving performative play with anonymity through the use of fake identities or collaborative persona imaginations. Adopting a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical performative turn and an ontological reflexivity in the cultural studies of music.

Privacy and Identity Management for Life

Author : Michele Bezzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642142826
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Privacy and Identity Management for Life written by Michele Bezzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/PrimeLife International Summer School, held in Nice, France, in September 2009. The 25 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing. They are organized in topical sections on lifelong privacy, privacy for social network sites and collaborative systems, privacy for e-government applications, privacy and identity management for e-health and ambient assisted living applications, anonymisation and privacy-enhancing technologies, identity management and multilateral security, and usability, awareness and transparency tools.

A to Z of Start up

Author : Mihir Prajapati
Publisher : Mihir Prajapati
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A to Z of Start up written by Mihir Prajapati and published by Mihir Prajapati. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps of the eBook 1.Market segmentation 2.Beachhead market 3.End-user profile 4.Beachhead total addressable market (TAM) 5.Persona 6.Life cycle use case 7.High-level product specifications 8.Quality value proposition 9.Next 10 customers 10.Define your core 11.Chart competitive position 12.Determine the decision-making unit 13.Map customer acquisition process 14.Follow on TAM 15.Design business model 16.Pricing framework 17.Lifetime value (LTV) 18.Map sales process 19.Cost of customer acquisition(coca) 20.Identify key assumptions 21.Test key assumptions 22.Define Minimum viable business product (MVBP) 23.Show “the dog will eat their own dog food” 24.Develop a product plan Classification of these 24 steps These 24 steps are classified into 3 different parts: 1.Customer understanding: the first few chapters of this eBook revolve around customer understanding. 2.Product/solution/service: Once you understand the customer, you will be able to figure out if your product, solution or service is able to solve the burning problem of the customer. 3.Strategy: When you have understood your customer and have launched the product, it is the time for strategy. You make some assumptions, business plan, and calculate the cost of business acquisition. Remember, customer, are given a lot of focus because entrepreneurs get too passionate and assume that whatever they are doing is right. So, they have so much assumptions and hunch, which is a strong internal voice that says whatever you are doing is right. And suddenly, when they go to the market, they fail because they are not prepared as they don’t understand the competition and market dynamics. Later you spend a lot of money and face many failures. You get successful after all this. But you need to take care that you should watch these 24 chapter around these 3 sections. Ways to do a startup 1.Passion: Some people are passionate and they believe that they can build a company of Rs 500 crore. 2.Technology: Some people can make a technology that becomes intellectual property. They also believe that even if they are unable to form a big organization, they can sell the technology to someone. 3.Idea: Some people have a very strong idea and they can create a big company by hiring the people of technology and marketing. You should start a startup when your idea and strategy is strong and you also have the knowledge of technology. Steps to move from passion to idea and technology 1.Knowledge: Deep knowledge of a subject 2.Capability 3.Network: the people you know and are going to support you when you start a startup. 4.Financial assets: As it is said that 95% of the startups fail in the 3 years of execution, it happens because of the lack of finances. 5.Established brand: You need to check whether you already have an established brand or you have something on which you can build something. The brand can also be of your co-founder or you can partner with someone who has a big-brand. In such a case, you have an added advantage. 6.Past work experience 7.Commitment: you need to check how much you are committed towards your idea or technology. 8.Find a founding team: Startup is not a lonely journey and therefore, you will have to find a founding team. There are many individuals who are founders on their own but they set-up a very strong management team. The future of India is in your hands so create it as this is your moment.

User Experience Re-Mastered

Author : Chauncey Wilson
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9780123751157
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book User Experience Re-Mastered written by Chauncey Wilson and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User Experience Re-Mastered: Your Guide to Getting the Right Design provides an understanding of key design and development processes aimed at enhancing the user experience of websites and web applications. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 deals with the concept of usability, covering user needs analysis and card sorting—a tool for shaping information architecture in websites and software applications. Part 2 focuses on idea generation processes, including brainstorming; sketching; persona development; and the use of prototypes to validate and extract assumptions and requirements that exist among the product team. Part 3 presents core design principles and guidelines for website creation, along with tips and examples on how to apply these principles and guidelines. Part 4 on evaluation and analysis discusses the roles, procedures, and documents needed for an evaluation session; guidelines for planning and conducting a usability test; the analysis and interpretation of data from evaluation sessions; and user interface inspection using heuristic evaluation and other inspection methods. *A guided, hands-on tour through the process of creating the ultimate user experience – from testing, to prototyping, to design, to evaluation *Provides tried and tested material from best sellers in Morgan Kaufmann’s Series in Interactive Technologies, including leaders in the field such as Bill Buxton and Jakob Nielsen *Features never before seen material from Chauncey Wilson’s forthcoming, and highly anticipated Handbook for User Centered Design

Theoretical and Practical Frameworks for Agent-Based Systems

Author : Zhang, Yu
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466615664
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical and Practical Frameworks for Agent-Based Systems written by Zhang, Yu and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many everyday dilemmas existing in the real world are complex and difficult to solve or fix, ranging from tax evasion to dispatching taxis to scheduling patient visits in hospitals, and much more. Within these complicated problems, however, lies the potential to be simplified or solved by intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. Theoretical and Practical Frameworks for Agent-Based Systems tackles these real problems and many more, bringing the theoretical research of intelligent agents to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and innumerable industries. Professionals and experts in every field ranging from education to healthcare and beyond will find this reference to be essential in the understanding of agents, and researchers currently working in the field of intelligent agents will benefit from this exciting examination of practical applications.