1. calming tech persona
sean rose
cs377t
spring 2011

2. Stephen: “I’m going to stay up til I’m done”
Goals:
Complete the assignment or make discernible, significant progress
in one sitting
Work style:
Generally works on programming assignments at night by
themselves, i.e. without intervals of homework from other
courses. Works to complete milestones, doesn’t factor in time
when beginning the assignment or deciding when to stop.
Self-perceived problems:
“The assignments take so long, and they’re tiring”
“Sometimes I run into points where I don’t know what to do, and I
just end up trying a bunch of things to see if they work…
sometimes I get to the point where I think nothing will work.”
“I just feel like the best help sometimes is when I’m forced to
take my mind off of [the assignment].”
“If I don’t put the time in now, it won’t get done later.”
Potential Roadblock: “There’s no other time to
Has limited time to complete assignments, prefers to know how do these things besides
much he’s going to work on beforehand (in some chunk, time or
progress) late at night, and I need
to get them done.”
Needs:
Know when the work he’s doing isn’t as effective, how much time
he’s going to need to put in to start with (can be an artificially
created time constraint).