Name
Abstract | ||
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We evaluate diagramming techniques for systems analysts and programmers from a cognitive perspective. This focuses on how people process information from system diagrams and how diagrams support the cognitive limitations of systems analysts and programmers. The paper increases awareness of the analyst's need for different information views during the systems development process and provides steps for improving the comprehension and communication of diagrammatic information. The examples provide ways to develop better diagrams given current tools for their development. We hope that future diagramming tools will reflect the cognitive limitations of the analyst by actively highlighting and dynamically governing the flow of graphic information across multiple information processing views. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
1995 | 10.1016/0378-7206(95)00024-Q | Information & Management |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
system representation diagram,system views,time charts,motivation,network charts,tables,systems analysis and design,cognitive evaluation,graphs,diagrams,system diagramming methods | Information system,Structured systems analysis and design method,Information processing,Diagrammatic reasoning,Computer science,Knowledge management,Systems design,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Cognitive evaluation theory,Cognition,Comprehension | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
29 | 2 | Information & Management |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 1.19 | 19 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerald L. Lohse | 1 | 1160 | 193.20 |
| Daihwan Min | 2 | 21 | 3.35 |
| Judith S. Olson | 3 | 2074 | 487.85 |