A study on the effects of routing symbol design on process model comprehension

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1104-1118

  Figl, Kathrin ^a   Recker, Jan ^b   Mendling, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive effectiveness; Comprehension; Notational design; Process modeling; Routing symbols

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC DESIGN; BUSINESS PROCESS; COGNITIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPREHENSION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DISCRIMINABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; VISUAL DESIGN;

PROCESS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84871715281     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.10.037     Document Type: Article

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