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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