Assessing the impact of hierarchy on model Understandability - A cognitive perspective

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 785, Issue , 2011, Pages 18-27

  Zugal, Stefan ^a   Pinggera, Jakob ^a   Weber, Barbara ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Reijers, Hajo A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; MODEL UNDERSTANDABILITY; SPLIT-ATTENTION EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84891097186     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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