Table 2.

Researcher user personas and use cases.

Researcher User Personas
Background	HSV research includes all medical research that attempts to prevent, treat or cure herpes, as well as fundamental research about the nature of herpes
Demographics	Education: Masters or above
Identifiers	Meticulous, require information in the database to be standardised with established governance and oversight plans
Goals	Good quality data that is standardised for meta-analysis
	Recruit patients for clinical trials
	Develop therapeutics or learn about population behaviour patterns and their association with disease development
	Improve or monitor health care
Challenges	Do not have access to the population of HSV patients for data collection
Objectives of the registry	Collect data from HSV patients in a standardised and accurate manner which can be centrally available
Use Cases
Basic flow	Researchers conduct a literature search on HSV causes and relationships with patient behaviour
	Researchers hypothesize a potential relationship between certain activity and HSV for a certain patient group
	Researchers search the database to search for a certain rate of recurrence for a specific group of patients
	Termination outcome: Researchers use statistical methods to analyse database records to identify potential correlation between patient behaviour and disease
Alternative flow	Researchers want to identify certain patient groups for clinical trial recruitment
	Researchers look through a searchable database for patients that fit the clinical trial criteria
	Researchers contact the patients who gave consent.
	Termination outcome: Researchers identify suitable patients quickly