While writing a paper, I used IOGraph to visualize my mouse movements. The darker circles represent areas where my mouse was resting and the lines represent mouse movements from point A to point B. During this session, I was mostly writing, and my mouse was stationary. I wonder what educational uses such a visualization has. For example, I use Scrivener as my writing platform because it minimizes distractions and allows me to focus on writing (rather than editing). If I were to use a tool that wasn’t distraction-free (e.g., MS Word), I imagine I would be seeing a lot more activity around the editing toolbars. Thus, using the visualization as a way to reflect on the writing process might be an interesting exercise.
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i love this, going to need to make my own. Just goes to prove making a text is a distributed activity (to use actor-network research terminology). Thanks for posting this, i wan tto make my own now,
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