Improving requirements engineering with personas

We are investigating the use of personas in requirements engineering with a view to working out ways to better use these during software engineering.

To this end we are looking into:

1. How personas are currently used in RE and SE
2. How we can build personas that represent effectively a wide range of human-centric issues
3. How we validate these personas; and
4. How we can use these personas during design and evaluation of software systems. This may include improved ways of defining personas, human-centric issues for personas, generating personas, and using persona models to support RE, design and evaluation.

Project Lead

• Prof. John Grundy

Investigators

• Devi Karolita (PhD student)
• Dr Jenny McIntosh
• Dr Tanjila Kanij
• Dr Humphrey Obie

For more information, please email here.