Norman+story+first prototype
Personas "play with roles; test your proxymity-distance endurance"
idea : A group of people challanged with fear or panic-disorder or similar traumatic experiences. They start carefull first steps into personal relationships. They might seek similar people sharing experience and intressts. They would like to meet in virtual distance without exposing to much. They experiment with their impression in relation to other people. Maybe if trust emerges real-life interface is possible.
solution = personas They meet at a portal taking special care of privacy. When logged in the first thing to do is choosing the _persona_ they want to represent right now (The actual chosen persona is always displayed during session). A persona consists of a name and certain attributs (for instance address data, intressts, stories, preferences, tastes ...).
When exchanging information (on the portal, in a group or persona2persona) the user can always chose which attributs of his persona he wants to expose (an exposing-log is collected to each persona). Each contribution is marked with the persona (a list of contributions The user can create a new persona any time. He can reuse attributes from his personas and choose new attributes(-values) for his new persona. An important attribute of a persona might be story "What's the characteristic/motivation of the persona"
implementation (prototype)
- a persona card type should be plused with portalid (the portal-account = the wagn-account) plus the name of the persona (apearing on any contribution) the attributes empty attributes for story, address, intresst should appear in a new created persona. Further common attributes (with a short content-characterising-sentence) should be offered for choice. And completele new attributs can be defined
- a contribution card type collect their creation an changes associated to "personas not wagn-users". So the persona, offers free choice of an contribution-role.
- In order to step into the portal, some text explaining the idea, howto-use-it, examples, tutorial should be offered to new users. Of course autopoiesis should start by allowing the users to contribute to explanation-of-persona-portal and first-steps and user-stories.
- second milestone : groups a communication area where people meet for exchange. The group might be open-to-join associated to a certain theme or moderated by a pesona by invitation-only or open-to-grow by consensus-invitation.
open questions
- (persona-switch) whats the mechanism to choose & change the persona the user wants to represent during session ?
- (contribute-persona-log) How to manipulate a cardtype so that the actual persona is logged with changes & the wagn-user is NOT logged (for privacy-reasons) (i assume somewhere in cardtype > options >settings)
- (persona-state) How to change wagn-layout so instead of upper-right-appearance "my Card : wagn-user" there should be "my persona: actual-chosen-persona" & have it changed after a (persona-switch). solution contextual names might be the sollution something like might display the actual chosen persona.
- (persona-attribut-choice) Maybe Pointers are to be used to offer a choice of common attributes to poulate the persona.