Improving remote collaborative process modelling using embodiment in 3D virtual environments

  • Authors:
  • Erik Poppe;Ross Brown;Jan Recker;Daniel Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • APCCM '13 Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 143
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Identifying, modelling and documenting business processes usually require the collaboration of many stakeholders that may be spread across companies in inter-organizational settings. While modern process modelling technologies are starting to provide a number of features to support remote collaboration, they lack support for visual cues that are present in co-located collaboration. In this paper, we examine the importance of visual cues for collaboration tasks in collaborative process modelling from distributed remote locations. Based on this analysis, we present a prototype 3D virtual world process modelling tool that supports a number of visual cues to facilitate remote collaborative process model creation and validation. We report on a preliminary analysis of the technology and also describe the future direction of our research with regards to the theoretical contributions expected from the evaluation of the tool.