Persona for Hologram/Projector Mobile device - Christos

Persona: Chris Smith

Background

• 11 years old
• lives with his family in Selly Oak,Birmingham
• he has a sister older than him, she’s 16
• his father works for a construction company while his mom is a nurse at Selly Oak hospital.
• Goes to a local school in Selly Oak
• He is an average student but in technology related topics he excelled.
• He hates history lessons.

Interests and Activities

Sports

• Skateboarding with friends. Chris goes to the skate park with his mates twice a week where they take pictures or videos with their mobile phones of their tricks, such as grinds,grabs,flips.
• He groups up with his mates mostly in the afternoons for a football game at the nearby park.

Other (hobbies)

• Chris is very interested and follows all the updates in mobile technology. Although he finds it hard to convince his dad in buying him all the necessary accessories for his mobile this does not discourage him from keeping up to date with the latest releases.
• Playing games on his favourite console, Nintendo Wii.
• He keeps pictures and videos of his favourite football players on his mobile phone.
• Listens to hip-hop and rock music.

Difficulties at home

• Chris and his sister currently share the same room. His parents though, are not having any plans in the near future for refurbishing the house in order that both have their own bedroom.
• Mostly the reason Chris wants the room for his own is so that he can invite his friends over and watch on the computer the videos and pictures they take every week at the skate park. The mobile screen is very small and thus not suitable when all of the guys gather to watch the videos. However his sister is using the computer most of the time and does not wish to get destructed from studying since her A Level exams are getting closer.

Goals, fears and Aspirations
Chris wishes one day to make it to the state skate championship.
He is afraid of breaking a leg during practice hours with friends. He got injured last year and his parents disallowed him to skate for quite some time.
He is also afraid of spiders!

Disabilities

None

Demographic attributes

• Average, middle class

photo reference : http://republika.pl/blog_tp_596576/1093542/sz/skatex.png