I’ve been away for a bit, but found some things of interest on my travels. I got this one from a cafe paper in Vietnam.

This table is a project created by the students at UIUC to give peoples conversations visual representation.  Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. A projector displays the data on a table in front of the participants.

It follows that increased self-awareness leads to behavior modification. Applications are endless. There seem to be a few of these experiments kicking around, each new version is more sophisticated. The UIUC site is definitely worth checking every now and then to see what they are up to.