System and method to visualize activities through the use of avatars

A computer implemented method for visualizing one or more automated activities, comprising:

• receiving by at least one computer-controlled avatar in a virtual environment one or more automated activities occurring in a real-world environment, wherein:
• the at least one computer-controlled avatar receives the one or more automated activities from a user via an interaction in the virtual environment with a user-controlled avatar that represents the user, and
• the one or more automated activities involve a system in the real-world environment;
• installing a monitoring agent in the one or more automated activities occurring in the real world environment;
• rendering the at least one computer-controlled avatar using an avatar representing an importance of the one or more automated activities received from the user;
• representing the one or more automated activities occurring in the real-world environment via the at least one computer-controlled avatar in the virtual environment, wherein the at least one computer-controlled avatar implements the one or more automated activities by interacting with a representation of the system;
• monitoring the at least one computer-controlled avatar;
• and
• altering the at least one computer-controlled avatar to reflect a change in the one or more automated activities occurring in the real-world environment, the altering including changing a color of the at least one computer-controlled avatar and a speed at which the at least one computer-controlled avatar is moving to indicate a speed at which the one or more automated activities are being executed in the real-world environment.

A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable hardware storage device and program instructions stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, the program instructions comprising:

• program instructions to receive by at least one computer-controlled avatar in a first environment one or more automated activities occurring in a second environment given to the at least one computer-controlled avatar by a user, wherein the one or more automated activities involves a real-world system;
• program instructions to render the at least one computer-controlled avatar using an avatar representing an importance of the one or more automated activities received from the user;
• program instructions to depict the one or more automated activities via the at least one computer-controlled avatar in the first environment, wherein:
• the depicting the one or more automated activities includes displaying the at least one avatar implementing the one or more automated activities by interacting with a representation of the real-world system, and
• the first environment is a virtual universe (VU) which is an interactive simulated environment accessed by users through an online interface, the users inhabiting and interacting in the VU via user avatars which are representations of the users;
• program instructions to monitor a progress of the one or more automated activities occurring in the second environment through the at least one computer-controlled avatar;
• and
• program instructions to change one or more features of the at least one avatar to reflect the progress of the one or more automated activities occurring in the second environment.