[Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?

[mhward]

I¹m not sure if this will help, but AProf Judy Kay and her team here at
Sydney have created a tool to visually report on group work processes.
Details at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/tr/tr582.pdf
I know she is often looking for projects for her graduate students, and
maybe would be willing to work on a modification of that.

M-H


On 22/04/09 2:16 AM, "gus andrews" <gus.andrews at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment
> threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are
> responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of
> software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create
> visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and
> another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.)
> 
> I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for
> his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will
> work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the
> connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would
> take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which
> his software could crunch.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Gillian "Gus" Andrews
> Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education
> Teachers College, Columbia University
> www.gumbaby.com
> www.youtube.com/user/themediashow
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