Visualizing change

There is a beautiful presentation on “visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors” from the Collaborative User Experience Research group at IBM (via Object Learning). I think the diagrams have a particular Tufteian beauty.

I would love to have a tool like this for the OpenACS source. Sort of like colored diff in cvsweb but extended over all versions. Of course in CVS you have the added complication of branching an merging but even so it would be cool. I love things that expose the history of documents and foster that sense of shared ownership and collaboration and it's hard to imagine something more effective than this tool.

03:59 AM, 17 Mar 2004 by Jeff Davis Permalink | Comments (0)

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