Persona Transparency: Analyzing the Impact of Explanations on Perceptions of Data-Driven Personas<\/a>.\u00a0International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 36(8), 788-800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Computational techniques are becoming more common in persona development. However, users of personas may question the information in persona profiles because they are unsure of how it was created. This problem is especially vexing for data-driven personas because their creation is an opaque algorithmic process. 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