Gabriela Trindade Perry: HCI, Design Cognition, Flex

Linko is meant to help you build linkographies, which were made popular amongst design researchers after the work of Gabriela (:0) Goldschmidt.

There´s really not much to a linkography: it´s a map of links. But it has a great power to illustrate protocol data. To illustrate how linkographies are well acepted in this research filed, follow this search on Science Direct´s database.

I am using linkographies to depict some of my data, and that was the drive behind my decision of writting a software to do this. They are hard to draw by hand, as you have to focus your attention on a procedural task: linking protocol segments. As I´m not trying to reach Nirvana, I didn´t even gave it a try :0)

So here´s where Linko comes to play. The idea is to feed it with a csv file exported from excel, and voila, you have your graphs.

You can of course use it, but you´ll need to compile it with Flex 3.5. I could write a version that loads a local file, so there won´t be the need to re-compile it to build every graph, but I´ll do that later (now I have to re-turn my attention to the analysys, the coding fun is over!).

The images bellow shows two image generated by Linko, with the useTime parameter to true (the first) and false (the second).

And you see the software in action here (I suggest you turn fullscreen on, by hitting F11 on your keyboard).

And you can download the source here.