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Persona Design and Applications

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Anna Kawakami
Carnegie Mellon University
2
Sangho Suh
Allen Institute
3
Federico Tiersen
Dyson (United Kingdom)
4
Anastasia K. Ostrowski
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Tyler J. Noorbergen
University of Newcastle Australia
6
Ilkka Kaate
University of Turku
7
Myra Cheng
Stanford University
8
Haoyu Song
Beihang University
9
Mafalda Gamboa
Chalmers University of Technology
10
Steven Baker
Griffith University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation
Unknown Journal|2024
123 cit.
2
More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research
Designing Interactive Systems Conference|2024
22 cit.
3
Promising directions for human-robot interactions defined by older adults
Frontiers in Robotics and AI|2024
16 cit.
4
In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design
Designing Interactive Systems Conference|2024
15 cit.
5
“You Always Get an Answer”: Analyzing Users’ Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination
Unknown Journal|2025
15 cit.
6
A Zine for Feminist Design of Reproductive Technologies
Unknown Journal|2024
14 cit.
7
AnthroScore: A Computational Linguistic Measure of Anthropomorphism
Unknown Journal|2024
9 cit.
8
The ‘fourth wall’ and other usability issues in AI-generated personas: comparing chat-based and profile personas
Behaviour and Information Technology|2025
8 cit.
9
We Are the Robots: Tapping Into the Lived Experiences of Wizards of Oz
Unknown Journal|2025
7 cit.
10
Modeling the New Modalities of Personas: How Do Users' Attributes Influence Their Perceptions and Use of Interactive Personas?
Unknown Journal|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Paola Pierri
SRH Hochschule der Populären Künste
2
William Jernigan
Oregon State University
3
Soon‐gyo Jung
Hamad bin Khalifa University
4
Richmond Y. Wong
Georgia Institute of Technology
5
S. Sundar
University of Utah
6
Kenneth Holstein
Carnegie Mellon University
7
Aubree Ball
University of Washington
8
Eun Kyoung Choe
University of Washington
9
Kellie Morrissey
University College Cork
10
Maren Haag
Heilbronn University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Improving Human-AI Partnerships in Child Welfare: Understanding Worker Practices, Challenges, and Desires for Algorithmic Decision Support
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|2022
131 cit.
2
Designing for human–AI complementarity in K‐12 education
AI Magazine|2022
119 cit.
3
Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2023
99 cit.
4
Privacy Legislation as Business Risks: How GDPR and CCPA are Represented in Technology Companies' Investment Risk Disclosures
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2023
53 cit.
5
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts
Designing Interactive Systems Conference|2022
40 cit.
6
MyMove: Facilitating Older Adults to Collect In-Situ Activity Labels on a Smartwatch with Speech
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|2022
38 cit.
7
Toward Supporting Perceptual Complementarity in Human-AI Collaboration via Reflection on Unobservables
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2023
34 cit.
8
Ground(less) Truth: A Causal Framework for Proxy Labels in Human-Algorithm Decision-Making
Unknown Journal|2023
21 cit.
9
Patients Waiting for Cues: Information Asymmetries and Challenges in Sharing Patient-Generated Data in the Clinic
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2022
19 cit.
10
Building, Shifting, & Employing Power: A Taxonomy of Responses From Below to Algorithmic Harm
Unknown Journal|2024
17 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michael Myers
University of Auckland
2
Noam Tractinsky
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
3
Eric Horvitz
Microsoft (United States)
4
Glenn Robert
UCL Australia
5
Bernard J. Jansen
Hamad bin Khalifa University
6
Patrick Olivier
Monash Health
7
Juho Hamari
Tampere University of Applied Sciences
8
Elizabeth Sanders
The Ohio State University
9
Bill Dolan
University of British Columbia
10
Jonathan Grudin
University of California, Irvine

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A Set of Principles for Conducting and Evaluating Interpretive Field Studies in Information Systems1
MIS Quarterly|1999
5.2k cit.
2
Co-creation and the new landscapes of design
CoDesign|2008
5.1k cit.
3
The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology|2015
3.3k cit.
4
User experience - a research agenda
Behaviour and Information Technology|2006
2.9k cit.
5
Qualitative Research in Information Systems
MIS Quarterly|1997
2.4k cit.
6
A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models
Unknown Journal|2016
2k cit.
7
The qualitative interview in IS research: Examining the craft
Information and Organization|2007
1.9k cit.
8
Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
Unknown Journal|2019
1.9k cit.
9
Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-based learning
Computers in Human Behavior|2015
1.6k cit.
10
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|2009
1.6k cit.

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