A FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING HUMAN ERROR BEHAVIOR IN CONCEPTUAL DATABASE MODELING

被引:18
作者
BATRA, D [1 ]
机构
[1] FLORIDA INT UNIV,COLL BUSINESS ADM,DEPT DECIS SCI & INFORMAT SYST,MIAMI,FL 33199
关键词
HUMAN ERROR; CONCEPTUAL DATABASE; LOGICAL DATABASE; DESIGNER TRAINING; END USER TRAINING;
D O I
10.1016/0378-7206(93)90035-R
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
A framework is developed to explain human error behavior in modeling conceptual databases. The framework is based on the notion of directness distance or 'gulf suggested in recent literature. It specifies four aspects of 'gulf in the context of conceptual database design - syntax, mapping, rules, and consistency. Based on the model, six types of errors are suggested - syntactic, abstraction, simplification, overload, convergence, and divergence. These are then matched to errors found in four empirical studies on database representation. Four types of errors - convergence, abstraction, simplification and overload - were typically found in these studies. The paper provides design guidelines to prevent these errors.
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页码:121 / 131
页数:11
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