Comprehension of procedural visual business process models: a literature review

K Figl - Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Visual process models are meant to facilitate comprehension of business processes.
However, in practice, process models can be difficult to understand. The main goal of this …

Factors influencing the understandability of process models: A systematic literature review

A Dikici, O Turetken, O Demirors - Information and Software Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Context Process models are key in facilitating communication in organizations and in
designing process-aware information systems. Organizations are facing increasingly larger …

From representation to mediation: a new agenda for conceptual modeling research in a digital world

JC Recker, R Lukyanenko… - MIS Quarterly …, 2021 - eprints.qut.edu.au
The role of information systems (IS) as representations of real-world systems is changing in
an increasingly digitalized world, suggesting that conceptual modeling is losing its …

Understanding the actualization of affordances: A study in the process modeling context

E Bernhard, J Recker… - Proceedings of the 34th …, 2013 - eprints.qut.edu.au
The affordances concept describes the possibilities for goal-oriented action that technical
objects offer to specified users. This notion has received growing attention from IS …

Factors of process model comprehension—Findings from a series of experiments

J Mendling, M Strembeck, J Recker - Decision Support Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
In order to make good decisions about the design of information systems, an essential skill is
to understand process models of the business domain the system is intended to support …

Assessing representation theory with a framework for pursuing success and failure

A Burton-Jones, J Recker, M Indulska, P Green… - MIS quarterly, 2017 - JSTOR
Representation theory (RT) is one of few long-standing, native theories in the Information
Systems discipline. Over the past 30 years, RT has spawned a wide program of research …

[HTML][HTML] Animation as a dynamic visualization technique for improving process model comprehension

B Aysolmaz, HA Reijers - Information & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Process models are widely used for various system analysis and design activities, but it is
challenging for stakeholders to understand these complex artifacts. In this work, we focus on …

Information systems as representations: A review of the theory and evidence

J Recker, M Indulska, P Green… - Journal of the …, 2019 - aisel.aisnet.org
Abstract Representation theory proposes that the basic purpose of an information system
(IS) is to faithfully represent certain real-world phenomena, allowing users to reason about …

Cognition matters: Enduring questions in cognitive IS research

M Davern, T Shaft, D Te'eni - Journal of the Association for …, 2012 - aisel.aisnet.org
We explore the history of cognitive research in information systems (IS) across three major
research streams in which cognitive processes are of paramount importance: develo** …

Cognitive diagram understanding and task performance in systems analysis and design

MM Mandelburger, J Mendling - MIS Quarterly, 2021 - research.wu.ac.at
Abstract Models play an important role in Systems Analysis and Design (SAD). A
diagrammatic model is defined as a map** from a domain to a visual representation in …