A Study on Tangible Participative Enterprise Modelling
2016 (English)In: Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2016 Workshops, AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME, and WM2SP Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016 Proceedings / [ed] Sebastian Link, Juan C. Trujillo, Springer, 2016, p. 139-148Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Enterprise modelling (EM) is concerned with discovering, structuring and representing domain knowledge pertaining to different aspects of an organization. Participative EM, in particular, is a useful approach to eliciting this knowledge from domain experts with different backgrounds. In related work, tangible modelling – modelling with physical objects – has been identified as beneficial for group modelling.
This study investigates effects of introducing tangible modelling as part of participative enterprise modelling sessions. Our findings suggest that tangible modelling facilitates participation. While this can make reaching an agreement more time-consuming, the resulting models tend to be of higher quality than those created using a computer. Also, tangible models are easier to use and promote learnability. We discuss possible explanations of and generalizations from these observations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2016. p. 139-148
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 9975
Keywords [en]
Enterprise modelling, Tangible modelling, Participative modelling, Empirical study
National Category
Information Systems
Research subject
Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13314DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47717-6_12ISI: 000390287400012Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84995973199ISBN: 978-3-319-47717-6 (electronic)ISBN: 978-3-319-47716-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-13314DiVA, id: diva2:1065137
Conference
35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Gifu, Japan, November 14-17, 2016
2017-01-132017-01-132018-01-13Bibliographically approved