1. CS 419/519: Inclusive Design with Personas
Project, Team Roles/Skills

2. Announcements Upcoming due dates/events: See schedule.
widgets are for talking about most of these points.

3. Project Choosing team members by skill:
Leadership/organization/coordination skills
Writing/presentation/communication skills
Some HCI background
Some Research background

4. Project Roles/Skills The team:
Risk management: responsibility is yours.
Honoring your commitments.
Communicating with your team members when things aren’t going well.
Continuous process improvement.
What’s not working ( ’d communications? scheduling? lack of lead time?)

5. Project Roles/Skills (cont.)
The lead:
Special responsibilities:
Keep everything organized/coordinated.
Lead in process improvement.
The buck stops here!
(But then you can delegate.)
Leadership skills a must!
It helps if the lead or access person really cares (passion/ownership feeling) about the project.

6. Project Roles/Skills (cont.)
The “Writing/Presentations” person
Special responsibilities: Make sure the oral and written presentations are done clearly, hang together logically to make the case, etc.
Do you like to write/speak?
eg: Do you get good grades in writing classes?
eg: Do you enjoy debating?
eg: Do you communicate well (in whatever your native language is)?

7. Project Roles/Skills (cont.)
The “HCI-background” person
Special responsibilities: Bring your HCI background to… watch out for the personas’ interests at all times!
Aim: deeply understand what the persona’s interests actually are.
(Everyone should be doing this, but your responsibility is to bring your background to this!)
Good listener, reads subtle cues well (eg, body language, hesitations in speech, ...)

8. Project Roles/Skills (cont.)
The “Research background” person
Special responsibilities: Bring your Research background to…
digging into learning your population,
not making silly claims you can’t substantiate, …
(Everyone should be doing this, but your responsibility is to bring your background to this!)

9. Project Roles/Skills (cont.)
The above are “special responsibilities”, not “sole responsibilities”
Everyone does everything!
But the special roles make sure that the important attributes are always being watched for.

10. Activity
Skills inventory activity here.