Enhancing understandability of process models through cultural-dependent color adjustments

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 87, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-12

  Kummer, Tyge F ^a   Recker, Jan ^b   Mendling, Jan ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Design; Process modeling; Quasi experiment; Secondary notation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; SEMANTICS;

COMMUNICATION MEDIA; CROSS-CULTURAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION; POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS; PROCESS MODEL UNDERSTANDABILITY; PROCESS MODELING; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS; SECONDARY NOTATION;

COLOR;

EID: 84975449399     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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