• DocumentCode
    2073329
  • Title

    Measuring and testing the effectiveness of a spatial decision support system

  • Author

    Crossland, Martin D. ; Wynne, Bayard E.

  • Author_Institution
    Southwest Missouri State Univ., Springfield, MO, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    4-7 Jan. 1994
  • Firstpage
    542
  • Lastpage
    551
  • Abstract
    A laboratory experiment was used to investigate the effects on decision-maker performance of using geographic information system (GIS) technology as a spatial decision support system (SDSS). Volunteer subjects completed a site location task that required decisions to be made based upon spatially referenced information. Significant differences were found between task solutions developed by SDSS users and those developed by non-SDSS users. SDSS users experienced shorter solution times and fewer errors for both levels of task complexity. A hypothesized interaction of SDSS usage and problem complexity with respect to solution time was confirmed.<>
  • Keywords
    decision support systems; geographic information systems; human factors; performance evaluation; decision maker performance; effectiveness measure; geographic information system; solution times; spatial DSS; spatial decision support system; task complexity; task solutions; testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wailea, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5090-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.1994.323464
  • Filename
    323464