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Introduction

Publication Management within the MPG is driven by three types of users:

1. Scientists
2. Librarians
3. Secretaries

From usability interviews data was collected to get a picture about the audience, their abilities experience and work environment.

Example of Data Collected (Pullout only)

Person	'	Participant 01	Participant 02	Participant 03
	Group	Scientist	Scientist	Scientist
Environment	Desktop space	Good	Good	Good
	External Help	IT Services	IT Services	IT Services
	Noise and distraction	None	None	None
	Browser	Netscape 7.02, Safari current	FF3	FF3
	Legathy applications	MS Office Appicarions	MS Office, Citavi	MS Office, Citavi, Mail Client (Thunderbird)
Workload	Workload	High	Low	Low
Personal Background	Age (Average)	45	25	30
	Nationality	German	German	German
	Educational Background	Higher	Master	Higher
	Gender	Female	Female	Female
Professional Background	Percentage of Work spent with applications	75	50	80
	Percentage of web applications involved	10	15	30
	Professional background (Years)	15	1	1
Employment context	Employment	Max Planck	Max Planck	Max Planck

Creation of Virtual Persons

From the collected data three virtual persons were shaped with a set of average attributes. Based on this set and enriched with personal impressions from interviews the social background was added to make the person more vivid.

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