Matching Synthetic Populations with Personas: A Test Application for Urban Mobility

Flore Vallet (1, 2) , Sebastian Hörl (1) , Tjark Gall (1, 2)

1 IRT SystemX
2 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel

Design is increasingly influenced by digitalisation yet differs largely across domains. We present synergies between the works of UX designers and data scientists. We can utilise personas to represent users and their behaviours, or synthetic populations to represent agent groups. Despite sharing characteristics, their synergies have not been explored so far. We propose a workflow and test it in the urban mobility context to link a synthetic population of Paris with a set of contextual personas. This builds the basis for an integrated approach for designing urban mobility across fields.

Keywords: user-centred design; data-driven design; inclusive design; persona; synthetic population

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Methods and statistics; Sociology; Geography; Environmental studies; Environment and Society

Flore Vallet, Sebastian Hörl, Tjark Gall. Matching Synthetic Populations with Personas: A Test Application for Urban Mobility. DESIGN2022, May 2022, Cavtat, Croatia. pp.1795-1804, ⟨10.1017/pds.2022.182⟩. ⟨hal-03682282⟩