White Papers
At Daden we believe in contributing to the market place in which we operate. We are therefore always keen to share our thoughts and ideas with other companies and professionals through articles, white papers and thought pieces. Below you will find a selection of our current writings – just follow the link for each to our download page.
Visual Analytics Survey Report
This survey report shows the results of an on-line survey we ran as part of our development of Datascape, our 3D immersive visual analytics application we were of course interested in what applications analysts were already using, what they liked about them, what they didn't, and what people might like to see in a 3D visual analytics application.
Download the Visual Analytics Survey Report. |
Immersive Visual Analytics
This white paper reflects on our experiences of data visualisation, following a journey from 2D and 2.5D visualisations to fully immersive 3D visual analytics.
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Virtual Worlds and the Built Environment
This white paper explores the current use and future opportunity of virtual worlds to help model the physical world and looks at why virtual world technology offers a complementary approach to existing tools, and possibly the best long-term solution to the challenges of built environment visualisations.
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Virtual Worlds for Training and Education This white paper describes the variety of ways in which virtual worlds are being used for training and education. Case studies and metrics are presented, and the typical considerations for a virtual world training/education project described.
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Future of Virtual Worlds
An updated (2010) white paper that looks at where virtual worlds have come from, and where they might be going in the future. In particular the idea of the virtual world as a 3D UI to a variety of generic business applications is described.
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Chatbots for Customer Advantage
An updated (2010) white paper that describes how chatbots work, the roles that they can fulfil within an organisation, and the business benefits of using them.
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Virtual Authoring Tool Survey Report - A survey report indicating that educators want to be able to easily create 3D training exercises themselves without needing the help of technologists nor expert knowledge of how to build the "sets" in their chosen virtual world. The survey asked questions about current uses of immersive worlds for learning, experiences of PIVOTE (Daden's existing system) and users' requirements for the future development of authoring tools.
Download the Virtual Authoring Tool Survey Report. |
