Designing conversations with personality: application of the design process to the development of a conversational design framework

Authors

  • Willian das Neves Grillo
  • Helda Oliveira Barros

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i2.616

Keywords:

Conversational Design, Personality, Conversational Agents

Abstract

The importance of personality in design has been defended over time. Studies show that consumers prefer products with a personality consistent with their concepts and this leads to a way to improve the preference for these products. Works on conversational interfaces talks about the need to implement personality traits as a way to establish a more humanized and engaging conversation. This work studied the development of a conversational design framework focused on personality attributing to utterances of conversations designed for an agent from the review and reflection of personality modeling processes. Looking at the models and references studied, a gap was noticed with regard to an objective method for designers to carry out the transposition of personality in conversation statements and it is precisely in this gap that the present work acted. From the analysis of these models, a conversational design process based on User-Centered Design was proposed, including its detailing in tools and dynamics.

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Author Biographies

Willian das Neves Grillo

Graduado em Administração com ênfase em Marketing pela UFRGS, Especialista em Design Centrado no Usuário pela Positivo e Mestre em Design pela CESAR School. Com 13 anos de mercado, já atuou em empresas como GoDigital, Acxiom Brasil e Brivia, liderando projetos de Usabilidade, Pesquisa com Usuários, Design de Experiência e de Serviços.

Helda Oliveira Barros

Coordenadora do Mestrado Profissional em Design da CESAR School. Docente da Pós-graduação e da Graduação em Design. UX researcher com ênfase em neurodesign e experiências simuladas e possui especial interesse em projetos de natureza decolonial, voltados para interseccionalidades. Head do LIGA - Laboratório de Inovação e Geração de Artefatos, que sediada as pesquisas em Design da referida instituição. Atua como consultora em projetos internacionais do CESAR. Doutora e Mestre em Design pela UFPE.

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Published

2022-06-14

How to Cite

Grillo, W. das N., & Barros, H. O. (2022). Designing conversations with personality: application of the design process to the development of a conversational design framework. DAT Journal, 7(2), 246–259. https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i2.616