Storyboard Augmentation of Process Model Grammars for Stakeholder Communication

Nardella Kathleen, Brown Ross, Simone Kriglstein

2014

Abstract

Process models are often used to visualize and communicate workflows to involved stakeholders. Unfortunately, process modeling notations can be complex and need specific knowledge to be understood. Storyboards, as a visual language to illustrate workflows as sequences of images, provide natural visualization features that allow for better communication, to provide insight to people from non-process modeling expert domains. This paper proposes a visualization approach using a 3D virtual world environment to visualize storyboards for business process models. A prototype was built to present its applicability via generating output with examples of five major process model patterns and two non-trivial use cases. Illustrative results for the approach show the promise of using a 3D virtual world to visualize complex process models in an unambiguous and intuitive manner.

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Kathleen N., Ross B. and Kriglstein S. (2014). Storyboard Augmentation of Process Model Grammars for Stakeholder Communication . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-005-5, pages 114-121. DOI: 10.5220/0004668101140121


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@conference{ivapp14,
author={Nardella Kathleen and Brown Ross and Simone Kriglstein},
title={Storyboard Augmentation of Process Model Grammars for Stakeholder Communication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={114-121},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004668101140121},
isbn={978-989-758-005-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Storyboard Augmentation of Process Model Grammars for Stakeholder Communication
SN - 978-989-758-005-5
AU - Kathleen N.
AU - Ross B.
AU - Kriglstein S.
PY - 2014
SP - 114
EP - 121
DO - 10.5220/0004668101140121