What Does DEMO Do? A Qualitative Analysis about DEMO in Practice: Founders, Modellers and Beneficiaries

Our goal in this exploratory study is to gain insights about the actual use of DEMO. As we aim at understanding how the use of DEMO influences its context of use and is influenced by it, the study is based on a qualitative approach. 13 stakeholders acquainted with DEMO were interviewed. As DEMO is an artefact, design science literature is relevant to reflect upon the observation of DEMO in practice. We investigated and analysed the views of DEMO founders, DEMO modellers and DEMO beneficiaries about DEMO definition, purpose and scope, results, ease and context of use. We used a subset of criteria of progress for information systems design theories to observe DEMO. Interview results are then exposed and analysed.