Euterpe - Tool support for analyzing cooperative environments

Abstract

This paper describes a tool EUTERPE that offers support for analyzing cooperative environments. The support is based on a formal analysis of the task model and can be done both on a logical and a visual level. An analysis of a cooperative environment requires a model that can formally describe the task world and that allows meaningful analysis to be done. Euterpe uses a logical model that is based on Groupware Task Analysis that describes the task world including cooperative aspects. By modeling the task world in logic and deriving graphical representations from it, several ways of analysis become possible.