BPMVE YouTube Channel

You might want to look at the BPMVE YouTube channel, where I post videos of our demonstration software.

A widget of this channel is also situated on the right of this blog.

Ross

My Latest Papers

For those interested, I have updated my eprints at QUT to include my latest papers.

Ross

Ten Billion Reasons for Serious Research Funding

Found a blog entry here that is predicting a ten billion dollar industry for Serious Games.

This number will start to rival the size of the games industry as a whole, which is $11.7 billion as of 2008.

Would be good if the prediction comes true. I might finally get some substantial funding for my BPM research in this area. :-)

Ross

Interactive Visualisation to Facilitate Expert Knowledge

Came across this tool for structuring arguments over at the Independent Newspaper. You can register and add arguments for the main topic, and vote for the arguments posted by other people.

Might be useful for eliciting expert information for Business Process Modelling. Using software tools for gathering such consensus-based information from clients, may help with some of the problems with modelling software and business systems. Such collaborative software can be used to obtain a more accurate estimate of the way people do work in an enterprise.

Ross

Augmented Virtuality for Processes

Google Earth with real time updates is now a possibility in the near future, with research being performed at Georgia Tech. A nice YouTube video is shown here of research into augmenting 3D Google Earth locations with camera updates, that are processed to show pedestrian and car movements in an area.

This is useful for showing process information updates in real time in a virtual setting.

We can now see that the various representation spaces for information: virtual world, image/video and augmented reality, seem to be heading towards a unified whole representation. Such a multi-space can be used to freely move in an out of 3D representations as we see fit, or to embed one within another - eg. Second Life as a 3D rendering on your physical desk using Augmented Reality technology.

So, the console view of your company's information, may indeed be spatially laid out in future, within a world visualisation like Google Earth.

Ross

Kant and the Art of Visualisation

I often think of Kant's ideas of the sublime while I muse about Visualisation and Computer Graphics. In short, Sublime is the feeling when in the presence of something that invokes awe, and may be akin to religious experience. I spoke at MS Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast, Qld just this Tuesday about the same thing. Computer Graphics has a peculiar place in Computer Science, along with maybe Audio Signal Processing, in that we can create algorithms that have a direct emotional impact on the viewer.

I like to tell my Real-time Rendering Students at QUT that their job is to create imagery that evokes an enjoyable experience in the player/viewer.

BTW, just found a blog on Beautiful Visualisation. Go have a read, it looks good, maybe even sublime...

Ross

Virtual Thin Clients

From the Yesha blog, a great link to an article about the use of LLMedia to show the output from a desktop application on a prim in SL.

This introduces all sorts of possibilities in the area of visualising running process applications, as you can show the application running in real time on a "terminal" in the Virtual Environment.

Now, if only we could open up the event streams in an OS to the Virtual Environment message passing scripts, then we could have some very interesting thin client, virtual application servers.

Ross