old drafts

found some old draft (bookmark) posts...
this one looks interesting >
interLiving - Interactive Thread.: "INTERACTIVE THREAD is a collection of participatory design methods from a variety of disciplines that span the design process: finding out about users, generating new ideas, and selecting and implementing a design.

Each card describes a specific technique and general instructions, with a design exercise and workspace on the back. The cards can be used individually or in sequence and can be learned quickly and adopted by diverse design teams. "

wandering i / i am wondering

whether i might start again looking at this area of research again...

amazing how little interest there has been over the last 15! years

am thinking of contacting helen kennedy (who i met way back)
who is now Prof. at Sheffield University
and recently published:
The Feeling of Numbers: emotions in everyday engagements with data and their visualisation

so hoping they will be interested as my ideas relate to actually capturing people's feelings as data!

now i just need to articulate the 'mood monitor' idea

:: starting to sort things out ::

Proposal
CMC Patterns: representation and interaction [pdf]


Relevant topics:
Social Interaction
Visualisation
CMC Environments
Learning Communities (groups)


Key Places:
Sociable Media Group MIT MediaLab (smg) http://smg.media.mit.edu
Social Computing Group IBM (scg) http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing
GroupLab Calgary (glab) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab

More Places:
Group for User Interface Research (guir)
http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/#cscw
Collaborative User Experience (CUE) Research group, formerly Lotus Research, IBM Watson Research Center
http://domino.research.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/pages/cue.html?Open
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), formerly GMD
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projekte/index_en.xml#p6
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/profil/cscw_en.html


People:
Tom Erickson http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson
Judith Donath http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Judith
Bonnie Nardi http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie
Saul Greenburg
Ben Schniederman

Things:
Chat Circles, Loom2, PeopleGarden, Coterie, [smg]
Babble, Loops, [scg]
ContactMap
SpotFire

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Literature Review Papers:

Judith Donath (2002). A Semantic Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations [pdf] Communications of the ACM Volume 45, Issue 4 (April 2002)
Available: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/505248.505271 Got Review
Gives brief examples of systems developed at smg for visualising ‘conversations’ (loops2, coterie, ChatCircles and peopleGarden). The conclusion being that these systems can potentially highlight clues about communication exchanges that are not immediately apparent but which are central to understanding the interrelationships they depict.