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Lene Nielsen is an Associate Professor at ITU, Section for Digitalization, Democracy and Governance, member of the Reflact research group
Her research focuses mainly on personas, and includes democratic businesses and service systems
Lene Nielsen was the first to write a PhD about personas.
Her research topics include the many aspects of the development and use of personas, such as:
- Global personas
- Personas based on quantitative data
- Persona descriptions as communication to specific and different audiences
- The relationship between persona description and data
- The use of personas in agile development
- Personas in service design
- Planetary Personas
- AI generated personas
Lene Nielsen har published three books, 5 chapters on personas and more than 90 papers
Lene Nielsen teaches Organizing and managing services
Impact
More than 25 research projects with industry.
Coaching companies to develop and implement personas
2022: Research input to the expert group assembled by a Danish united parliament on advancing cooperative start-ups in Denmark
2025: Development of Planetary Personas as a business case with Olivia Harre
2025: Guest Editor: Special issue on AI-Generated Personas: Representing User Needs with Generative AI Models. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Nov. 2025
Keywords
- Personas
- Scenarios
- HCI
- Narratives
- Service systems design
- Cooperatives
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The design of non-human personas
Nielsen, L. & Neuhoff, R., 1 Mar 2025, International Conference IADIS Information Systems 2025. Nunes, M. B., Isaías, P., Powell, P. & Kommers, P. (eds.). p. 434-438 5 p.Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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A case of action research with a focus on collective learning about organisational challenges and solutions for democratically owned businesses
Nielsen, L., Nicolajsen, H. W. & Baka, V., 2024, Action Research Booklet. Wang, C. & Juncker-Jensen, L. (eds.). Copenhagen: RSS Press, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Action Research Booklet
Wang, C. (Editor), Juncker-Jensen, L. (Editor), Wang, C., Østerlund, C. S., Nicolajsen, H. W., Christensen, L. R., Juncker-Jensen, L., Nielsen, L., Marttila, S.-M., Finken, S., Jiang, Q., Baka, V., Guo, V. & Dittrich, Y., May 2024, 1 ed. Copenhagen: Really Simple Syndication Press. 114 p.Research output: Book / Anthology / Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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A Sociotechnical Design and Evaluation Framework for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation.
Abdelnour-Nocera, J. L., Gutiérrez, J. J. G., Alvarez, M. E. P. & Nielsen, L., 9 Jul 2024, Design for Equality and Justice. Springer, Vol. 14536. p. 3-12 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14536).Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Designing IT for Governance - The Case of Employee-Owned Businesses. The Case of Employee-Owned Businesses
Nielsen, L., Nicolajsen, H. W. & Baka, V., 9 Jul 2024, Design for Equality and Justice: Interact 2023. Springer, p. 13-26 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14536).Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TRACE: Adjunctive Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Treatment of Epilepsy
Nielsen, L. (CoI) & Christensen, L. R. (PI)
06/05/2016 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research
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BOSA: Brugerinddragelse via Online Service i Agil udvikling
Nielsen, L. (PI)
07/09/2012 → 07/09/2013
Project: Research
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Integrating User Experience Activities in Agile Environments
Nielsen, L. (PI)
Innovationsnetværk for IT - InfinIT
01/09/2017 → 31/03/2018
Project: Research
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COOPs: Iværksætteri med demokratisk islæt: analyse af forholdene i Danmark
Nielsen, L. (PI), Nicolajsen, H. W. (CoI), Baka, V. (CoI), Victor, F. F. (CoI), Stana, R. A. (CoI) & Sivertsen, S. (CoI)
01/11/2021 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
Press/Media
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939 forskere og akademiske medarbejdere opfordrer til våbenhvile og ende på besættelsen
Carreras, B. N., Larsen, A. W., Laursen, C. S., Friis, H., Schyberg, K. A., de Neergaard, K. S. P., Sandbukt, S., Gahoonia, S. K., Ferreira, P., Hockenhull, M., Cohn, M., Rasmussen, L. & Nielsen, L.
14/11/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Sommerskole på Bornholm lokker københavnere til Nexø: IT-studerende hjælper bornholmske virksomheder
18/08/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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IT-studerende hjælper bornholmske virksomheder
15/08/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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It-studerende fra København hjælper lokale virksomheder : Vi bliver så godt taget imod
26/08/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media