The Use of Persona Based Scenario Method for the Development of Web Board Game for the Pre-elderly

• Published in: International JOURNAL OF CONTENTS Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 37 - 41
• Main Authors: Seo, Mi-Ra, Kim, Ae-Kyung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 한국콘텐츠학회(IJOC) 28.06.2014; 한국콘텐츠학회
• Subjects: 컴퓨터학; Situation Scenario; Persona; Web Board Game; Pre-elderly
• ISSN: 1738-6764; 2093-7504
• DOI: 10.5392/IJoC.2014.10.2.037

This study defined the pre-elderly as middle age people from 50 to 59. Because it is difficult to produce a design to satisfy the preelderlywithout deeply understanding them, their financial and physical characteristics and persona-based scenario method wasstudied. An experimental study about persona based scenario method was conducted, and as a result, the types of personas foundwere as follows: 1) Users enjoy the same games online and offline. 2) Users enjoy playing alone on the computer. 3) Users prefergames that end quickly with win or loss. Writing the situation scenario for each type, the pre-elderly's problems and needs occurringwhile they play web board games were obtained. The obtained user requests were as follows: users would like the level of difficultyto be simpler in the game of baduk; users wanted unlimited credit and refrainment from using English words in go-Stop; and therewere simple comments about game screen design. KCI Citation Count: 2