During Thursday’s class (3/12), I aimed to track the fluidity of conversations across different tables. Specifically, I wanted to see which tables participated most frequently and which tables most frequently interacted with each other. I listed the names of one person at each table to allow the viewer to orient the room. Additionally, I connected the lines at central nodes, when the conversation was shifting across tables. I define conversation as a continuous exchange between different tables. The single lines represent when only two tables talked, most often seen when Dr. Sample asked a question and a student responded. The longest conversation occurred when discussing the topic: What does connected mean to you?. There are some limitations to my observation: 1. I did not account for two people at the same table speaking consecutively 2. I did not track the time in which conversations took place. 3. There is a lot of “noise” because of the number of conversations shown and the size of the paper on which I tracked the conversations.
