Interactive Problem Structuring with ICZM Stakeholders

Structuring managerial problem situations

Structuring the Space of Interactive System Properties

We provide a structured classification of properties to guide the principled design of interactive systems. This classification is motivated by an existing software quality framework, which we extend with respect to the usability of the software product. We distinguish between high-level categories of product usability and criteria within those categories which can be represented and ultimately...

Understanding behaviour in problem structuring methods interventions with activity theory

This article argues that OR interventions, particularly problem structuring methods (PSM), are complex events that cannot be understood by conventional methods alone. In this paper an alternative approach is introduced, where the units of analysis are the activity systems constituted by and constitutive of PSM interventions. The paper outlines the main theoretical and methodological concerns th...

Problem Structuring and Information Access in Design

In order to design proper information systems for designers, it is important to understand how they enrich their knowledge base during the design process, what triggers their queries for information, what strategies they use and what factors influence their behaviour in relation to information seeking. Exploring these questions requires a closer look into the design process and the factors that...

Problem structuring using computer-aided morphological analysis

General morphological analysis (GMA) is a method for structuring and investigating the total set of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, usually non-quantifiable, problem complexes. Pioneered by Fritz Zwicky at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s and 40s, it relies on a constructed parameter space, linked by way of logical relationships, rather than on causal relationsh...