Martina is a 36-year-old postdoc from Sweden living in California who practices yoga to help control her emotions. She gets easily annoyed when disturbed in the lab and has trouble taking criticism without explaining herself. While she knows yoga techniques to manage her emotions, she wants a way to be reminded of the most effective techniques in crucial situations when her emotions start to take over.

1. Personas Behavior design: creating calming technology Christin Staubo

2. Martina

3. Martina Martina is 36 years old, Born in Stockhom in Sweden, She is currently an Post Doc at Stanford University, she have been at Stanford 3 ½ years, she lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Menlo Park. Her brother and parent have visited her from Sweden a couple of times. She had first a studio , but that was too small when they came to visit so she changed to a one bedroom apt. She has practiced yoga for 6years, she does it to be more in control of her emotional life, she is born in a family were people have a lot of temper, she wants to be able to react better on her environment when she gets upset. She doesn’t like waking up early in the morning, and if she does that means her whole day is ruined. She loves working alone in the lab , she gets annoyed when people disturb her with questions etc, when she is in the flow, she usually shows these emotions when it happens and she wish she didn’t get annoyed by it , could just let it go an reply nicely. She sees that other people in her lab manages to do it, When she has one-on-one meeting’s with her boss, she also wished that she could just take the criticism with relaxation instead of her trying to explain herself. She gets embarrassed afterward when this happens. She know the techniques to let go of the bad -emotions through yoga, but she wished that she had a way to get reminded of the techniques in the crucial situations , where her emotions shall not take over. She needs triggers that she likes to prompt her at the right time, because not all the techniques that she learns at yoga she likes and find effectual. Like for example she doesn’t like the meditation practice which happens after her yoga class, it’s a technique of focusing and she doesn’t get much out of it , neither has anyone told her how to do it.