Lene Nielsen

Author: Lene Nielsen

Lene Nielsen is an Associate Professor at ITU, Department of Business IT, and Head of the TIME (Technology, Innovation, Management, and Entrepreneurship) research group.

Her research focuses on personas, and she was the first in the world to write a Ph.D. about personas. Her research topics include the many aspects of the development and use of personas, such as:

  • Global personas

  • Personas based on quantitative data

  • Persona descriptions as communication to specific and different audiences

  • The relationship between persona description and data

  • The use of personas in agile development

  • Personas in service design.

Lene Nielsen har published two books on personas and more than 80 papers

Lene Nielsen teaches service design and different aspects of innovation.

Publications

Publication period start: 2006
Number of co-authors: 4

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Mads Boedker
1
Rikke Orngreen
1
Sabine Madsen
3

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Rikke Orngreen
1
Sabine Madsen
3
Mads Boedker
5

Publications

Nielsen, Lene, Madsen, Sabine (2006): Using Storytelling to Reflect on IT Projects. In Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 7 (4) pp. .

Nielsen, Lene (2004). Engaging Personas and Narrative Scenarios - a study on how a user-centered approach .... Copenhagen Business School

Nielsen, Lene (2002): From user to character: an investigation into user-descriptions in scenarios. In: Proceedings of DIS02: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques , 2002, . pp. 99-104. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/778712.778729

Nielsen, Lene, Chavan, Sameer (2007): Differences in Task Descriptions in the Think Aloud Test. In: Aykin, Nuray M. (eds.) UI-HCII 2007 - Second International Conference on Usability and Internationalization - Part I July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 174-180. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_22

Boedker, Mads, Nielsen, Lene, Orngreen, Rikke (2007): Enabling User Centered Design Processes in Open Source Communities. In: Aykin, Nuray M. (eds.) UI-HCII 2007 - Second International Conference on Usability and Internationalization - Part I July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 10-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_2

Nielsen, Lene, Madsen, Sabine (2006): Storytelling as Method for Sharing Knowledge across IT Projects. In: HICSS 2006 - 39th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 4-7 January, 2006, Kauai, HI, USA. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.438

Nielsen, Lene (2014): Personas. In: Lowgren, Jonas, Carroll, John M., Hassenzahl, Marc, Erickson, Thomas, Blackwell, Alan, Overbeeke, Kees, Hummels, Caroline, Spence, Robert, Apperley, Mark, Holtzblatt, Karen, Beyer, Hugh R., Kjeldskov, Jesper, Burnett, Margaret M., Scaffidi, Christopher, Svanaes, Dag, Hook, Kristina, Sutcliffe, Alistair G., Schmidt, Albrecht, Cockton, Gilbert, Kaptelinin, Victor, Christensen, Clayton M., Hippel, Eric von, Tractinsky, Noam, Challis, Ben, Shusterman, Richard, Hudson, William, Mann, Steve, Whitworth, Brian, Ahmad, Adnan, de Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius, Fishwick, Paul A., Grudin, Jonathan, Poltrock, Steven, Gallagher, Shaun, Dix, Alan J., Nielsen, Lene, Randall, Dave, Rouncefield, Mark, Bowman, Doug A., Kock, Ned, Cairns, Paul, Few, Stephen, Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Paterno, Fabio, Cyr, Dianne, Mortier, Richard, Haddadi, Hamed, Henderson, Tristan, McAuley, Derek, Crowcroft, Jon, Crabtree, Andy, Stephanidis, Constantine, Giaccardi, Elisa, Stappers, Pieter, Blandford, Ann, Zimmerman, John, Forlizzi, Jodi (eds). "The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed." The Interaction Design Foundation .

Madsen, Sabine, Nielsen, Lene (2009): Using Storytelling to Improve Scenarios. In: Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Isaías, Pedro, Powell, Philip (eds.) IADIS International Conference Information Systems , 2009, .

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