Welcome to the homepage of the Conversation Pivots research at the University of Michigan School of Information.
The basic idea of the Conversation Pivots is to be able to move from one item to a set of related items. For example, when examining the page for a module in Drupal.org, you could easily navigate to recent discussion related to the module, and from there back to other modules that are mentioned in that discussion. We hope this research could be the first step towards a revolution of online conversations.
Demo site can be accessed here -- http://drupal.cms5.si.umich.edu
Pivots Module@Drupal: click here
README.pdf: download here
The general idea: download here
screenshot: download here
Presentation: download here
CREDITS:
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Daniel Zhou (danithaca at gmail dot com): main developer of the pivots module. He is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Paul Resnick: advisor and main architect of the pivots idea. He is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Michael Hess: consultant and technical support.