January 25, 2004
discussion visualization
From the Dana Centre
"dana4throom takes the comments that have been posted in one of our discussion boards and creates a person icon for each of these comments."
You can click on the user name to find out more about the user or click "more" to read the comment on the discussion boards. It's cute but not very practical unless it does more than than simply create a person icon. For example, it would be very cool if a lot of the people icons grouped together for an active discussion. Even better would be visual feedback that reflected the tone of the discussion. If there were lots of smilies in the comments, the people icons could look like they're laughing. If comments were very long, people icons could be standing on top of a soap box. The possibilities are almost limitless...