Working with personas

Adding a new persona

You can add a persona to your library by clicking Add persona to create a persona from scratch or Import personas to import from a library.

Personas are fundamental to how Conducttr builds the information environment so there are a lot of fields, but you don't necessarily need to complete them all! At a minimum a persona must have a name and unique handle. The handle isn't seen by your players but it's important to you as the designer.

Core attributes

Core attribute	Description
Name	The persona's name
Handle	This is a way to uniquely refer to a specific persona. The handle is used in the following situations: Replacing with another persona from a library - personas with the same handle are recognised as potentially being the same Used in smartwords to access the persona's other attributes. See the section on swartwords
Faction	This is a convenient grouping of personas but also affects how the AI generates content
Bio	This is for designers to know who the persona is supposed to represent
Location	This is used to geolocate social media and website article posts (important for the InfoMap channel)
Impersonation	This allows human players with the matching position to impersonate this persona. "All positions can edit" means website articles on this persona's website can be edited by any player with a position (i.e. not just a specific position)

Other attributes

Categorisation

Attribute	Description
Affiliation	This is a NATO categorisation of actors - it's used for some Pulse widgets
A3E	A military categorisation used in some Pulse widgets
Disposition	This is used in some Pulse widgets and reflects the persona's disposition (negative to supportive) towards the training audience
Tags	Searchable field to make it easier to find personas with similar tags. This can be very helpful during design but also running
Established	Convenient means for filtering but not used by the simulation

AI related

Attribute	Description
Empathy	Empathy shapes the tone of voice for personas with the range -3 to +3 indicating confrontational style to conciliatory style respectively
Beliefs	Belief tags connect the persona to beliefs in the belief library

Social media related

Attribute	Description
Influence	Influence determines how much engagement a persona gets on their social media posts
Content & Social Graph	Check the checkbox if you want to hide this persona from all social media

Working at an Organisation

Personas can work at organisations. This will allow posts from the organisation to show the author as the organisation or the employee.

Making the persona a team member

This allows a player to log in and inhabit the persona without impersonation. The player will need to use the same email address as the persona.