persona and scenario

Persona

Alex is 20 years old.He is studying history and archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which is also the city where he lives. Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and has generally Mediterranean climate.He is from another city but he is renting a house in Thessaloniki and parallel with his studies, he works as a waiter.His parents have not big difficulties of sending him money but he wants to be as much independent as possible and earn his own money. At his free time, he likes having fun with friends, going to the cinema, listening to electronic music, e.t.c. Also, one thing he loves to do at his free time is going for joking near the port(twice per week) but mostly he loves to go for swimming at the municipal swimming pool (3 times a week).He was never fat from his childhood and always had a normal - well build body but wants to make it better for his health and physical state. He likes gadgets and he is connecting to the internet through his personal computer or his mobile phone where he is reading news, downloading music and more. He has a special sympathy to the x-training application from his mobile, which helps him in many issues and he feels happy and comfortable having it.

Scenario - x-training

Alex decides to go for joking near the port.He wants to calculate some things such as speed, how many calories he's going to "burn" e.t.c. He "run" x-training application which is easy at its use and very understandable. He presses the "menu" from his mobile, afterwards he presses x-training and at the end, he scrolls down using the arrow keys to "calculate speed". As far as the application is on, he can see during the running, the speed he is running at the moment, the average speed and the total distance he has run. When finishing, he can calculate the calories he "burned" and save the running time to a record file in x-training.He can also see what it is advised to eat after training, to substitute his energy. For instance, if he is going to run 2 km in slow speed, then the x-training will show him that he needs to eat a honey spoon and a banana. Alex is also using x-training to plan healthy balance diet. This application is very helpful for him because it can show results almost for any kind of sport. Alex loves swimming, so he "runs" this application in order to combine styles like backstroke , free, breaststroke and butterfly for best results. By entering his weight and height, he is able to know the results of his training, almost in every sport. Even with push ups or weights, he can see the results of his exercises and most importantly, he can find the best combination of exercises suitable for him.