2024 - Playing with Persona

Journal Article, 2024
Playing with Persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media ︎

Hjorth, L., Sheahan, J., Figueiredo, B., Martin, D., Aleti, T., Reid, M.,

Convergence

Exploring perceptions and practices of technology use and risk to understand how cultural probes like personas can offer us ways to connect playfully to lived experience to inform future imaginaries. In this paper, we focus on the six co-design workshops in which we deployed personas as representations of digital experience to challenge, explore, provoke and help build nuanced tools for implementation.Through personas, speculative fiction, and lived experience, we provide ways to rethink digital media in increasingly ageing futures.

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

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