Personae
Persona 1
Name: Robert Jeffrey Hill
Age: 12 yrs old
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Yarm, Middlesbrough, UK
Education: Middle School student
Context of Pin Doctor use: School but mainly house
Disabilities: No
Interests: science, computers and animals
Hobbies: football, watching TV (especially Scrubs, E.R and Casualty), summer school camping
Skills: knows some first aid basics that learned during summer school camping
Characteristics: self motivated, very energetic with many activities, sometimes difficult to concentrate on one thing, enjoying socializations and outgoing
Dream: having some thoughts of becoming a doctor
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: limited budget
Persona 2
Name: Catharine Marian Weber
Age: 22 yrs old
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Frankfurt , Germany
Education: Bachelor in Biology – 2 nd Year
Context of Pin Doctor use: University but mainly house
Disabilities: No
Interests: biology, medicine, experiments and musical instruments
Hobbies: jogging, listening to music (especially jazz), swimming
Skills: has a certificate for being a lifeguard, speaking fluently two languages (English and Italian)
Characteristics: stubborn, sensitive, altruist, reserved, reticent
Dream: go for another one bachelor (become a nurse) as she finds it more active than being biologist
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: limited to intermediate budget
Persona 3
Name: Billy Kantu
Age: 15 yrs old
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Kenya
Education: High School
Context of Pin Doctor use: House
Disabilities: Asthma
Interests: sea life, ecology, medicine, traveling
Hobbies: football, basketball, fishing, swimming
Skills: got the first level certificate for computers, speaks French
Characteristics: good sense of humour, dreamy, impatient, indecisive, very smart and witty
Dream: become a scientist but haven’t decided yet what kind of exactly
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: limited budget
Persona 4
Name: Josephine Sanderland
Age: 9 yrs old
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Chicago , USA
Education: Primary School
Context of Pin Doctor use: School and house
Disabilities: No
Interests: playing, painting, music
Hobbies: ballet, listening to music, collecting sea-shells
Skills: bilingual ( American/Swedish), 2 years of starting playing piano
Characteristics: pleasant, sensitive, smart, quarrels easily
Dream: become a teacher (as all small girls)
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: limited to intermediate budget
Persona 5
Name: Nicky Ades
Age: 24 yrs old
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Thessaloniki , Greece
Education: Nurse Student – 2 nd Year
Context of Pin Doctor use: mainly University
Disabilities: No
Interests: nursery, medicine, education, computers, distance learning
Hobbies: walking, swimming, diving, music, reading and stamps collection
Skills: speaking fluently two languages (German and English) and little bit of Italian, Computing skills (European certificate)
Characteristics: witty, realist, multi-tasking, ordered and honest
Dream: be as good as possible in her future job
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: intermediate budget
Persona 6
Name: Christian Johansson
Age: 28 yrs old
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Amsterdam , Holland
Education: Bachelor in Medicine
Context of Pin Doctor use: mainly University but also too schools for informative talks
Disabilities: No
Interests: medicine, psychology, wild life, computers
Hobbies: hiking, reading, computer games, crosswords
Skills: has a computing certificate, fluent knowledge of German, basic knowledge of sign language
Characteristics: adventurous, stubborn, selfish, smart, curious
Dream: to exercise his job in a Third World country
Pin Doctor’s Cost in Context: intermediate budget