Recognition of Paper-Based Conceptual Models Captured Under Uncontrolled Conditions

Schuster

Prinz

2019

JoIS

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Permanent reachability via mobile communications technologies has become a ubiquitous phenomenon. The traditional boundaries between peoples’ different contexts in their lives become blurry and begin to dissolve, if they are not actively maintained. Such boundary management activities allow to individually determine which communication request are considered acceptable in a particular context. Existing research in this field has a used a fixed set of pre-specified contexts to examine boundary management activities and identify different boundary profiles. Based on results from context-aware computing and mental model research, we argue for an open-ended, individual set of contexts to be considered for boundary management. Consequently, we develop an open structure elaboration technique to allow for individual specification of contexts and the information necessary to create a boundary profile, as identified in related work. The method is validated in an exploratory study, which was designed to verify the hypothesis that boundary management should be based on individually specified contexts, and show the feasibility of the proposed method. The results indicatively confirm our assumptions and show that the method can be used to elicit the required information.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Method for Formative Multi-Context Boundary Profiling

Schuster

Prinz

2019

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“…The modeling cards bear visual markers that can be recognized and uniquely identified in the picture. The optical marker recognition engine (Oppl et al 2017) used for this purpose is based upon the ReacTIVision system (Kaltenbrunner and Bencina 2007). Based upon the coordinates of each marker, the cards contained in the image can be identified and extracted.…”

Section: Transition From Modeling To Enactmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alignment of Multiple Perspectives: Establishing Common Ground for Triggering Organizational Change

Stary

2019

Designing Digital Work

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This chapter introduces methodological support for transitioning from existing to envisioned work processes via direct actor involvement. It suggests direct actor involvement in the alignment and validation of novel work practices, in particular when digital workflows or instruments are involved that fundamentally impact the modes of individual operation and collaboration. Alignment is required for consolidating various inputs for further processing. In particular, actively involving process participants in process modeling creates a challenge for consolidated digital work design. Process participants are not expected to have modeling skills and usually, they prefer to externalize their knowledge through diagrams that are as simple as possible in terms of both syntax and semantics (‘natural modeling’). Alignment leads to accommodation of novel perspectives on a work process according to the participants’ individual mental models, allowing their implementation in organizational practice after validation.

“…It, however, cannot be assumed to be fully developed for all modeling participants. Appropriate forms of representations and scaffolds can thus help to mitigate deficiencies in this area and allow including people without prior modeling experiences in work articulation and design activities (Oppl et al 2017). In this light, we here introduce a method based on structure elaboration techniques (Groeben and Scheele 2000) that scaffolds the articulation process and still leads to models that represent both, the functional and interactional aspects of work processes.…”

Section: Sorting Out: Cards As Carrier Of Functions and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Value-Oriented Articulation

Stary

2019

Designing Digital Work

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Holiday application procedure: An employee fills in a holiday application form. He/She puts in a start and end date of his/her planned vacations. The responsible manager checks the application and informs the employee about his/her decision; the holiday request might be rejected or approved. In case of approval the holiday data are sent to the human resource department (HR) which updates the days-off file.