Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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IUI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

"Pathways to the Metaverse": Exploring the User Experience Mechanisms Driving Technology Acceptance in Virtual Lab Visits with an LLM-powered Avatar

Metaverse environments combined with large language models (LLMs) enable guided interaction through LLM-powered avatars that function as embodied conversational agents. In our study, we examined how scholars interact with an LLM-powered avatar modeled after a real professor during a virtual reality (VR) tour of a rese…

CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

Creating and Evaluating Personas Using Generative AI: A Scoping Review of 81 Articles

As generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly applied in persona development to represent real users, understanding the implications and limitations of this technology is essential for establishing robust practices. This scoping review analyzes how 81 articles (2022-2025) use GenAI techniques for the creation, evaluation,…

DIS '25Universal & Inclusive Design +2

Are We Still Under-Serving the Underserved?: An Analysis of 56 Blue-Collar Workers Using 2 Online Information Services

We examined the accessibility of online information services (OISs) for underserved communities through a user study involving 56 blue collar participants interacting with a website and an app for five tasks. The blue collar participants were generally unsuccessful on both platforms, with 12.7% (n=7) unable to success…

DIS '25Conversational Chatbots +1

When Personas Talk to You: Evaluating the Evolution of User Personas from Static Profiles to Conversational User Interfaces

The development of persona systems provides a possibility for end users to interact with different persona modalities. In a 54-participant randomized controlled experiment, we compare two persona interaction modalities, document and dialogue personas, both generated using AI approaches from survey data. Overall, dialo…

IUI '25Human-LLM Collaboration +2

"You Always Get an Answer": Analyzing Users' Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination

We investigated the presence and acceptance of hallucinations (i.e., accidental misinformation) of an AI-generated persona system that leverages large language models for persona creation from survey data in a 54-user within-subjects experiment. After interacting with the personas, users were given a task to ask the p…

CHI '25User Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)

What is User Engagement?: A Systematic Review of 241 Research Articles in Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond

User engagement (UE) is widely discussed in HCI articles, but its definition, reliability, and application remain elusive. This research conducts a systematic literature review of 241 articles from 1993 to 2023 to analyze how UE is defined and measured within the domain of HCI. Our findings reveal significant definiti…

DIS '24Participatory Design +1

“There’s Something About Noura”: Exploring Think-Aloud Reasonings for Users' Persona Choice in a Design Task

Stakeholders like designers use personas to learn about users. After persona development, stakeholders are usually presented with a persona set. However, there is little research on how stakeholders select a persona from a persona set. A think-aloud analysis with 37 stakeholders who were asked to select a persona for…

CHI '24Human-LLM Collaboration +1

Deus Ex Machina and Personas from Large Language Models: Investigating the Composition of AI-Generated Persona Descriptions

Large language models (LLMs) can generate personas based on prompts that describe the target user group. To understand what kind of personas LLMs generate, we investigate the diversity and bias in 450 LLM-generated personas with the help of internal evaluators (n=4) and subject-matter experts (SMEs) (n=5). The researc…

IUI '22User Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation) +1

Developing Persona Analytics Towards Persona Science

Much of the reported work on personas suffers from the lack of empirical evidence. To address this issue, we introduce Persona Analytics (PA), a system that tracks how users interact with data-driven personas. PA captures users’ mouse and gaze behavior to measure users’ interaction with data-driven personas and system…

CHI '22Inclusive Design +2

Use Cases for Design Personas: A Systematic Review and New Frontiers

Personas represent the needs of users in diverse populations and impact design by endearing empathy and improving communication. While personas have been lauded for their benefits, we could locate no prior review of persona use cases in design, prompting the question: how are personas actually used to achieve these be…

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