Evaluation of the intuitiveness of MIoTA

The objective of the MIoTA (Modeling IoT Applications for Air Conditioning Facilities) modeling method is to facilitate the configuration of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the field of air conditioning facilities. The corresponding MIoTA tool incorporates a domain-specific modeling language (DSML) and its meta-model for air conditioning facilities and was developed in an industrial case study. Various functionalities support the modeling and development processes. Therefore, no specific IT skills are required at the application level. It is important that models created with MIoTA are readily accepted and correctly understood. This necessitates the use of an intuitively understandable notation. The current MIoTA tool and notation have been formally tested by domain experts who assisted in their development. In this paper, we conduct an experiment to assess the intuitiveness of working with the tool with users who have no prior experience with it and are no experts in the domain. The majority of the participants perceived MIoTA as useful and intuitive, and the results allow us to derive potential improvements.

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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Evaluation of the intuitiveness of MIoTA},
author = {Benjamin Nast and Kurt Sandkuhl},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3804/paper10o.pdf},
year  = {2024},
date = {2024-09-11},
urldate = {2024-09-11},
booktitle = {BIR-WS 2024: BIR 2024 Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, 23nd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2024)},
abstract = {The objective of the MIoTA (Modeling IoT Applications for Air Conditioning Facilities) modeling method is to facilitate the configuration of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the field of air conditioning facilities. The corresponding MIoTA tool incorporates a domain-specific modeling language (DSML) and its meta-model for air conditioning facilities and was developed in an industrial case study. Various functionalities support the modeling and development processes. Therefore, no specific IT skills are required at the application level. It is important that models created with MIoTA are readily accepted and correctly understood. This necessitates the use of an intuitively understandable notation. The current MIoTA tool and notation have been formally tested by domain experts who assisted in their development. In this paper, we conduct an experiment to assess the intuitiveness of working with the tool with users who have no prior experience with it and are no experts in the domain. The majority of the participants perceived MIoTA as useful and intuitive, and the results allow us to derive potential improvements.},
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}