User Personas

This is a guide of User Personas in CEA. These are potential end-users of CEA. We describe the goals and priorities of these user personas hereafter. We use this information to build User Stories / Report bugs / Develop new features. It is of utmost importance for every developer to know this by heart.

Researcher

The priorities of this User Persona are:

  1. To find an answer to a unique research question/hypothesis

  2. To build upon the state-of-the-art, saving time in coding newly established algorithms.

  3. To conduct experiments quickly.

  4. to generate replicable and transparent results.

Student

The priorities of this User Persona are:

  1. To understand the trade-offs of planning cities for energy efficiency.

  2. To build intuition about the mechanics of different analysis and modeling techniques.

  3. To generate replicable and transparent results.

Practitioner

The priorities of this User Persona are:

  1. To analyze real case studies quickly.

  2. To generate great visualizations which aid communication to stakeholders.

  3. To generate standard, replicable and transparent results.