Psychology and visualization, part 2

I showed three psychology faculty the visualization I had created on mapping shifts in emotional or cognitive states. They lots of interesting feedback on possible uses for describing what they called resilience. The way the moving line disappears could reflect a constantly changing measure of resilience, or something to that effect. Someone noticed that the decay rate of the tail was constant, which it doesn't have to be; in real life, the ability to "erase the past" as it were changes through time. (Whoever pointed this out had an excellent eye.)

I think with this alone I have enough to go on for the next several weeks. To link it to advocacy, I think we might just need to present an individual's graph alongside someone else's. As they pointed out, measures of normalcy are statistical. Rae Macapagal was interested in visualizing a triangulation method used to visualize and determine compatibility. Chei Billedo was interested in love as a biochemical process. (I should probably forward her the talk by Helen Fisher about love on TED Talks.)

Maybe we could do some of cross-cultural comparisons? I wonder what kind of data is available.

I'm beginning to suspect that just about any data, in the hands of a good information designer, can be made not only interesting, but a point of departure for a social justice and advocacy agenda.

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