Working with personas
Adding a new persona
You can add a persona to your library by clicking "New" to create a persona from scratch or "Import" 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 - what they mean
The persona's name.
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
This is a convenient grouping of personas but also affects how the AI generates content
This is for designers to know who the persona is supposed to represent
This is used to geolocate social media and website article posts (important for the InfoMap channel)
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
This is a NATO categorisation of actors - it's used for some Pulse widgets
A military categorisation used in some Pulse widgets
This is used in some Pulse widgets and reflects the persona's disposition (negative to supportive) towards the training audience
Convient means for filtering but not used by the simulation
AI-related
Empathy shapes the tone of voice for personas with the range -3 to +3 indicating confrontational style to conciliatory style respectively.
Belief tags connect the persona to beliefs in the belief library
Social media related
Influence determines how much engagement a persona gets on their social media posts
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. Note that the player will need to impersonate the organisation and will select the employee as the post author.
Making the persona a team member
This allows a player to log in and inhabit the persona without impersonation
Checking message consistency
Click the icon shown to view and edit all messages from this persona.
The benefit of this feature is that it makes quality assurance fast in terms of being able to check for consistency of voice and story progression across the exercise for this persona.
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