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Short Paper: Towards Enhancing Business Process Monitoring with Sonification

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Abstract

State-of-the-art business process monitoring systems usually base on different types of real-time visualizations, in which data is typically presented using various graphical elements such as speedometers. However, these systems have several drawbacks, such as the inability to constantly monitor process executions while at the same time working on other things. This is why this paper proposes to enhance visual process monitoring with techniques from the area of sonification (the presentation of data using sound). Even though sonification has already successfully been evaluated in several domains for real-time monitoring, there is so far no comprehensive research for its usage in business process monitoring. This paper proposes sonification techniques and user interactions that can be implemented in future applications.

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This work was partially supported by the Commission of the European Union within the ADVENTURE FP7-ICT project (Grant agreement no. 285220).

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Tobias Hildebrandt

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  2. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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  3. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Petia Wohed

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Hildebrandt, T. (2014). Short Paper: Towards Enhancing Business Process Monitoring with Sonification. In: Lohmann, N., Song, M., Wohed, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 171. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06257-0_42

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