Fundamentals: Color, shape, sound and location

4 day view of newsgroup as a whole

• upper left corner image is the oldes, lower right image is the newest (timewise) threads are all one hue
• individual messages are different saturations--each person is a particular saturation
• the size of the messages is proportional to the width of the message in the display
• the vertical order of the threads is based on which messages were most recently read
• the middle bar represents the location in the thread where the user has read up to.
• messages to the right haven't been read; messages to the left have been read.

  missing: sense of temporal aspect of threads in relation to one another

View of 4 newsgroups

• # of messages posted shown on y axis
• time of day on x axis
• date shown on z axis

  page last updated 3/27/2001