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@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 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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