Findings from an experiment on flow direction of business process models
| dc.contributor.author | Figl, Kathrin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strembeck, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Kolb, Jens | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Leopold, Henrik | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Mendling, Jan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-30T03:15:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-30T03:15:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A core aspect of diagrammatic process modeling is the visualization of the logical and temporal order in which tasks are to be performed in a process. While conventions and guidelines exist that promote modeling processes from left-to-right or from top-to-bottom, no empirically validated design rationale can be provided for this choice so far. Therefore, this paper seeks to determine whether some flow directions are better than others from a cognitive point of view. We present the results of a controlled pilot experiment comparing the effects of four flow directions (left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top) on process model comprehension with a small sample size of 44 participants. Although there is a variety of theoretical arguments which support the use of a left-to-right flow direction as convention for process models, the preliminary empirical results of the pilot experiment were less clear-cut and showed that model readers also adapted well to uncommon reading directions. | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-88579-642-8 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1617-5468 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Enterprise modelling and information systems architectures | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Volume P-248 | |
| dc.title | Findings from an experiment on flow direction of business process models | en |
| dc.type | Text/Conference Paper | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 73 | |
| gi.citation.publisherPlace | Bonn | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 59 | |
| gi.conference.date | 3.-4. September 2015 | |
| gi.conference.location | Innsbruck |
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