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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Discussing Groupware
Message-ID: <2625@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 01:28:28 GMT
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wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Der Grouch) writes:

>Patently false.  Most meeting-support tools carry some kind(s) of
>emotion-level indicators.  Gibbs et al (project NICK at MCC/STP) even went
>so far as to include explicit iconic emoticons for things like "I'm pleased"
>and "I'm bored."

It should be possible to send your basic brainwave pattern across.  You
could have strip charts for everyone in the conversation and see who
is paying attention with theta waves, who is just meditating with 
alpha waves, and who is surfing on righteous waves.  Anyone who takes 
their meter off doesn't get waves from anyone else.