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International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons

ICCHP 2012: Computers Helping People with Special Needs pp 145–152Cite as

Creating Personas with Disabilities

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Personas can help raise awareness among stakeholders about users’ needs. While personas are made-up people, they are based on facts gathered from user research. Personas can also be used to raise awareness of universal design and accessibility needs of people with disabilities. We review the current state of the art of the personas and review some research and industry projects that use them. We outline techniques that can be used to create personas with disabilities. This includes advice on how to get more information about assistive technology and how to better include people with disabilities in the persona creation process. We also describe our use of personas with disabilities in several projects and discuss how it has helped to find accessibility issues.

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  1. Norsk Regnesentral – Norwegian Computing Center, Gaustadallen 23a/b, Kristen Nygaards hus, NO-0373, Oslo, Norway

    Trenton Schulz & Kristin Skeide Fuglerud

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  1. University of Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute “integriert studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Schulz, T., Skeide Fuglerud, K. (2012). Creating Personas with Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_22

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