Developing bulletin board visualizations (.pdf) by Rehman Mohamed and others
Great presentation: an overview of existing visualizations of on-line discussions, own visualization and evaluation results.
- First evaluation results: people find it useful, increased participation from lurkers and peripheral participants. Possible explanation: peripheral users tend to loose an overview of a discussion, so it’s difficult to jump in; visualizations make it easier.
- Further research questions: “Do visualizations raise communication levels over an extended periods? Do visualizations encourage contributions from particular user groups who were previously quite?”
- This research correlated with our knowledge mapping work. And, of course, I’m also thinking about visualizing weblog conversations…
Using FOAF to support community building, Brian Kelly (check his profile for a collection of FOAF tools)
Good “initiation” overview of FOAF and links to FOAF tools, not much new for me :) Usual concerns: why making your relations explicit, privacy and multiple identities, manual entry… (See also: Clay Shirky and danah boyd on explicit relations).
Tags: knowledge mapping, networking, transparency, WBCArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/03/25.html#a1141; comments are here.
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