Empirical Insights into the Appraisal of Tool Support for Participative Enterprise Modeling

The paper presents an experiment about modeling tools in the context of enterprise modeling in teams. A goal modeling task was set where three teams of three persons worked with a whiteboard, and three teams of three persons worked with a multi-touch table. The participants’ ratings of the tool were compared between both manipulation groups. Moreover, the participants explained their ratings in individual interviews. Results indicate that multi-touch tables can be expected to be equally accepted by modeling teams, and uncover further potentials of the tool.