Persona 3: John
John is a professor in the University of Southampton, he is an academic researcher, he believes that finding a good and suitable research group members would have a great results. Hence, he is happy to join a platform like MeetingOfMinds.
Persona 2: Stave
He is an iPhD student and finished his first year and already has a supervisor for his PhD thesis. Satve is active in the social media and willing to share his experience in finding the proper supervisor.
Persona 1: Garkie
When Garkie begun her second semester of the MSc program, she started looking for a supervisor for her summer thesis, she found this process is difficult. She has heard about a new platform which can help her in this process. Therefore:
The following three personas of MeetingOfMinds platform have been introduced and defined here and they will be used in our scenarios posts. We have considered that our users are either post-graduate student or professors at the University of Southampton. We described the academic interests, learning and research style and supervision style for each persona. Also, we have described that each user fit in which position of Rogers adoption curve ( as covered in the Social Enterprise lecture ). In addition, we specified the ‘type of user’ by describing the main goal of each persona from using MeetingOfMinds, we take benefits from the Flickr diagram discussed in the the Social Enterprise lecture to design each type which also covered in our earlier post ( please click here to view it ) in the Social Network section when we talked about how our project being a social network.
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