TY - GEN
T1 - How cognitively effective is a visual notation? On the inherent difficulty of operationalizing the physics of notations
AU - van der Linden, Dirk
AU - Zamansky, Anna
AU - Hadar, Irit
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The Physics of Notations [9] (PoN) is a design theory presenting nine principles that can be used to evaluate and improve the cognitive effectiveness of a visual notation. The PoN has been used to analyze existing standard visual notations (such as BPMN, UML, etc.), and is commonly used for evaluating newly introduced visual notations and their extensions. However, due to the rather vague and abstract formulation of the PoN’s principles, they have received different interpretations in their operationalization. To address this problem, there have been attempts to formalize the principles, however only a very limited number of principles was covered. This research-in-progress paper aims to better understand the difficulties inherent in operationalizing the PoN, and better separate aspects of PoN, which can potentially be formulated in mathematical terms from those grounded in user-specific considerations.
AB - The Physics of Notations [9] (PoN) is a design theory presenting nine principles that can be used to evaluate and improve the cognitive effectiveness of a visual notation. The PoN has been used to analyze existing standard visual notations (such as BPMN, UML, etc.), and is commonly used for evaluating newly introduced visual notations and their extensions. However, due to the rather vague and abstract formulation of the PoN’s principles, they have received different interpretations in their operationalization. To address this problem, there have been attempts to formalize the principles, however only a very limited number of principles was covered. This research-in-progress paper aims to better understand the difficulties inherent in operationalizing the PoN, and better separate aspects of PoN, which can potentially be formulated in mathematical terms from those grounded in user-specific considerations.
KW - Cognitive effectiveness
KW - Operationalization
KW - Physics of notations
KW - Visual notations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976608084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976608084
SN - 9783319394282
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 448
EP - 462
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 17th International Conference, BPMDS 2016, 21st International Conference, EMMSAD 2016, Held at CAiSE 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Schmidt, Rainer
A2 - Bider, Ilia
A2 - Guerreiro, Sérgio
A2 - Guédria, Wided
PB - Springer
T2 - 17th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2016 and 21st International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2016 held at Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016
Y2 - 13 June 2016 through 14 June 2016
ER -