Video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMgI6R4iHs.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Video: Collaborative BPMN Process Modeller
Friday, February 15, 2013
CFP: TAProViz’13 Workshop at BPM 2013
TAProViz’13, 2nd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Process Visualization, Beijing, China - 26 August 2013
In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2013)
Web Site: http://www.wst.univie.ac.at/topics/taproviz13
Workshop Goals
The representation of business process models has been a continuing research topic for many years now. However, many process model representations have not developed beyond minimally interactive 2D icon-based representations of directed graphs and networks, with little or no annotation for information overlays. In addition, very few of these representations have undergone a thorough analysis or design process with reference to psychological theories on data and process visualization. This dearth of visualization research, we believe, has led to problems with BPM uptake in some organizations, as the representations can be difficult for stakeholders to understand, and thus remains an open research question for the BPM community. In addition, business analysts and process modeling experts themselves need visual representations that are able to assist with key BPM life cycle tasks in the process of generating optimal solutions.
With the rise of desktop computers and commodity mobile devices capable of supporting rich interactive 3D environments, we believe that much of the research performed in computer human interaction, virtual reality, games and interactive entertainment have much potential in areas of BPM; to engage, provide insight, and to promote collaboration amongst analysts and stakeholders alike. We believe this is a timely topic, with research emerging in a number of places around the globe, relevant to this workshop.
This is the second TAProViz workshop being run at BPM. The intention this year is to consolidate on the results of last year's successful workshop by further developing this important topic, identifying the key research topics of interest to the BPM visualization community.
Workshop Theme
Visualizations can make the structure and dependencies between elements in processes accessible in order to support users who need to analyze process models and their instances. However, effectively visualizing processes in a user-friendly way is often a big challenge, especially for complex process models which can consist of hundreds of process components (e.g., process activities, data flows, and resources) and thousands of running process instances in different execution states.
Many challenges remain to be addressed within the broad area of process visualization such as: scalability, human-computer interaction, cognitive aspects, applicability of different approaches, collaboration, process evolution, run-time requirements of process instances and applications, etc.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Visual Metaphors in Processes
• Visual Design and Aesthetics for Processes
• Visualization of Dynamic Data in Processes
• Change Visualization for Processes
• Interface and Interaction Techniques for Process Visualization
• Visualization Techniques for Collaboration and Distributed Processes
• Visualization of Large-scale Processes
• Cognition and Perception in Process Visualization
• Evaluation and User Studies of Process Visualization
• Visual Modeling Languages
• Analysis Techniques and Visualization for Processes
• Process Visualization of Large Screens
• Mobile Process Visualization
• Visualization Tools and Systems for Processes
• Visualization Techniques for Processes
• Process Visualization and Sonification
• Virtual World Process Visualization
• Immersive Process Modeling Approaches
• 3D Process Visualization Approaches
Format of the Workshop
The ½ day workshop will comprise accepted papers and tool presentations. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.
In addition, there will be a joint meeting of the participants, to continue the development of a process visualization research community that will continue to work together after the workshop.
Intended Audience
Researchers, practitioners and software vendors in the BPM space performing research into using graphics and interaction techniques to provide process visualizations across many topics will find this workshop to be of interest.
Important Dates
• Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 25 May 2013
• Notification of Acceptance: 25 June 2013
• Camera-ready version: 23 July 2013
• TAProViz Workshop: 26 August 2013
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above.
Three types of submissions are possible:
• (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature research results
• (2) position papers reporting research that may be in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated
• (3) tool reports
Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages.
Only papers in English will be accepted and must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in the « LNBIP» format. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).
All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Hard copies of these proceedings will be shipped to all registered participants approximately four months after the workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be distributed during the workshop.
Submitted papers will be evaluated, in a double blind manner, on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and the relation to the theory and application of process visualization.
Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair site.
Registration
Accepted papers imply that at least one of the authors will register for «(BPM2013)» and present the paper at the TAProViz workshop.
Workshop Co-Chairs
• Ross Brown
«r.brown@qut.edu.au»
Information Systems Discipline, Science and Engineering Faculty
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
«http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/brown8/»
• Simone Kriglstein
«simone.kriglstein@univie.ac.at»
SBA Research, Vienna, Austria
«http://cs.univie.ac.at/simone.kriglstein»
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
«stefanie.rinderle-ma@univie.ac.at»
Research Group Workflow Systems and Technology
University of Vienna, Austria
«http://cs.univie.ac.at/stefanie.rinderle-ma»
Program Committee
• Ralph Bobrik (Switzerland)
• Michael Burch (Germany)
• Massimiliano De Leoni (Netherlands)
• Remco Dijkman (Netherlands)
• Phillip Effinger (Germany)
• Kathrin Figl (Austria)
• Hans-Georg Fill (Austria)
• Sonja Kabicher-Fuchs (Austria)
• Jens Kolb (Germany)
• Wendy Lucas (USA)
• Silvia Miksch (Austria)
• Margit Pohl (Austria)
• Rune Rasmussen (Australia)
• Manfred Reichert (Germany)
• Irene Vanderfeesten (Netherlands)
• Eric Verbeek (Netherlands)
• Günter Wallner (Austria)
Monday, February 11, 2013
Update: Bug Workaround for Infinite Mario Game Research
Guenter has come back regarding a reported bug in Infinite Mario regarding their game research experiment at: http://bit.ly/Y4UBUk.
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This is a weird problem. It seems to occur with Windows 7 with Java SE7. I
don't know where the problem really is but I have two workarounds.
a) Starting Firefox in Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibility mode (right
click on Firefox Icon -> Properties -> Compatibility-> Check the "Run this
program in compatibility mode for" box) fixes the problem
b) Changing the color depth of Windows 7 from 32bit to 16bit also
circumvents the problem.
I will also put a notice on our website.
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Ross
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Help Needed: Game Research - Infinite Mario
Please consider assisting my colleagues Simone Kriglstein and Guenter Wallner in their games research project.
Guenter and I are currently running a user study on playing behaviour in Infinite Mario and we are searching for people who want to play the game online.
The game can be accessed at: http://bit.ly/Y4UBUk
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Opportunity: Games Startup at Right Pedal Studios, Brisbane
Posted by my Colleague Matt Ford on Facebook
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Hi all-- let me put in an extra plug for us freaking overwhelming Right Pedal Studios with awesome teams and game proposals before their 20 Jan deadline. I want this promising new fund to realise just how much potential this community has. The more great applications there are, the more benefits we will harvest. To get honest advice about this opportunity, contact me at matthew@fordfam.com, and/or go to the Mana Bar event on the 8th to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/468788233158922/
I'm not a RPS investor; my stake is with *you* as devs, and I think for many this is a great opportunity. Let's not pass it up.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
CFP: HCIS - 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centric Information Systems
HCIS - 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centric Information Systems
in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13), Valencia, Spain, 17-21 June 2013
HCIS Link: http://www.wst.univie.ac.at/communities/hcis/2013/
The HCIS workshop is focused on human orientation and human factors in the context of Information Systems (IS) research. The workshop aims to support investigations and novel solutions for human integration into IS, and interaction of humans with IS in general. In continuing the successful series of the HC-PAIS workshop series, the HCIS 2013 workshop will also provide a platform for discussing research on human orientation in different types of IS, such as Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS), Business Process Management Suites (BPMS) and Workflow Systems (WfS). The workshop aims to offer a portal for researchers, discussions, and contributions of interdisciplinary research dedicated to the investigation of particularly human-centric activities and processes that demand human judgment, human skills and competencies, human experiences, and discernment. The HCIS workshop appreciates diversity in the chosen research methodology (reaching from e.g. empirical research to action research, and design science research), and welcomes technical, empirical, experiential, and exploratory contributions.
Workshop topics
Contributions to further human factors in alliance with IS in general, or specific IS such as PAIS, BPMS, WfS are welcome.
- Human orientation and human factors in IS
- Human resource modeling in IS
- Human-centric functionalities and services in IS
- Motivation, satisfaction and performance of humans working with IS
- Work life quality of humans working with IS
- Creativity in IS
- Teams, groups, and social collaborative processes in IS
- Role conflicts, role motivation, compliance behavior in IS
- Visualization, personalized visualization and representation
- Context-integration, customization in IS
- Security and Privacy in human-centric IS
- (Organizational) Culture, gender, and diversity in IS
- Process innovation and process adaptation for human-centric IS
- Cognitive theory reflection in IS
- User properties in the context of process modeling and IS
- User-centric automatisms and feedback loops in IS
Important Dates
| Workshop paper submission: | 27th February 2013 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 20th March 2013 |
| Submission of camera-ready papers: | 27th March 2013 |
| Workshop: | 18th June 2013 |
Submission
Accepted papers of our workshop will be published in the joint Springer LNBIP proceedings.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format until the 27th February (11:59 pm) 2013 via Easychair «https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcis2013». The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format and should not exceed 12 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format, exceeding 12 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the workshop, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at «http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0». Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.
Authors of the submitted HCIS workshop papers will receive the notification of acceptance until the 20th March 2012. The accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNBIP series.
Registration
Accepted papers imply that at least one of the authors will register for the CAiSE’13 and present the paper at the HCIS workshop. Also please keep in mind that everybody attending the CAiSE’2013 workshops, will have to register for CAiSE 2013.
Workshop Chairs
Sonja Kabicher-Fuchs «sonja.kabicher-fuchs@univie.ac.at»
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma «stefanie.rinderle-ma@univie.ac.at»
Jan Recker «j.recker@qut.edu.au»
CFP: 9th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'13)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL TRACKS
9th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'13)
July 29-31, 2013
Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel
Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
ISVC provides a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and
practitioners to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments
and applications in visual computing. We seek papers contributing to the state
of the art and practice in the four central areas of visual computing: (1)
computer vision, (2) computer graphics, (3) virtual reality, and (4)
visualization. Of particular interest are papers that combine technologies
from two or more areas. For a list of topics, see http://www.isvc.net
ISVC'13 will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with all
aspects of visual computing. In addition to the main program, the symposium
will include several keynote presentations, special tracks, and a poster
session. A selection of best papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (ISI/SCIE
indexed) and the Computers and Graphics journal(ISI/SCIE indexed). Also, a
"best paper" award ($500) is sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
(MERL). The symposium's proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Important Dates
Special track proposals: February 1, 2013
Paper submissions May 10, 2013
Notification of acceptance June 10, 2013
Final camera ready paper June 28, 2013
Advance Registration June 28, 2013
ISVC.13 Symposium July 29-31, 2013
Keynote Speakers
Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mel Slater, University College London, UK
Serge Belongie University of California, San Diego, USA
Anthony Hoogs, Kitware, USA
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University, USA
(Area 1) Computer Vision Area Chairs:
Porikli Fatih, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)
(Area 2) Computer Graphics Chairs:
Zordan Victor, University of California at Riverside, USA
Klosowski James, AT&T Research Labs, USA
(Area 3) Virtual Reality Chairs:
Joaquim Jorge, Technical Univ of Lisboa, Portugal
Luo Xan, Qualcomm Inc., USA
(Area 4) Visualization Chairs:
Chen Min, University of Oxford, UK
Gotz David, IBM, USA
Submission Procedure
Papers submitted to ISVC'13 must not have been previously published and must
not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A complete
paper should be submitted in camera-ready format. The length should match that
intended for final publication. The page limit is 12 pages. In submitting a
paper the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final
manuscript in time for inclusion into the proceedings and will present the
paper at the symposium.
Special Tracks
Proposals are invited for special tracks on any topic relevant to the
symposium. Special tracks are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in
special areas relevant to the symposium theme. A special track may span
multiple sessions, depending on the quantity and quality of the papers
submitted. All papers accepted in a special track will be published in the
symposium proceedings. If you are interested in organizing a special track,
please email a special track proposal to admin@isvc.net by February 1, 2013.
Each special track proposal should include the following information:
1. Title
2. Scope and Topics
3. Names of organizers and contact information
4. Initial special track committee
5. Anticipated number of papers
For a list of special tracks organized in previous years, please visit
George Bebis
ISVC'13 Steering Committee Chair
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