Skip to content

Home

Jump to bottom
John W. DuBois edited this page Oct 6, 2019 · 26 revisions

The Rezonator Project

Welcome to Rezonator!

In our wiki we post our goals, plans, and functions that we intend to develop for Rezonator.

Rezonator is a project to explore the dynamics of resonance and engagement in dialogue. We strive to capture the expressive complexity and creativity unleashed when people resonate in conversational interaction. We try make the process of inquiry interesting and fun, for players and researchers alike.

  • Rezonator is an open-source project, offered under the MIT License.
  • For our public-facing website, go to Rezonator.com. Here you can download the latest release of Rezonator.

Rezonator is both a tool for linguistic research and a word game engine. Unifying factors that link Rezonator's functions as research tool and word game engine include:

  • built on the fundamental principles of dialogic resonance (DuBois 2014, Towards a Dialogic Syntax)
  • sensitivity to dynamic aspects of language in conversational interaction
  • attention to details of linguistic form and meaning
  • focus on intuitive visualization of language in use
  • commitment to an insightful user experience

As a research tool, it is designed for:

  • resonance analytics
  • discourse analysis
  • anaphora/coreference
  • concordance search
  • linguistic analysis
  • data visualization

As a word game engine, the focus is on building:

  • intuitive visualization of the dynamics of language in inteaction
  • appealing game play
  • a generalizable platform for creating a wide variety of games
  • ease of incorporating open-ended levels
  • capture of timestamped information about user actions
  • support for dialogue analytics
  • crowd-sourced game play data
  • create Games With a Purpose (GWAP)

As a word game engine, Rezonator captures salient information about user actions - including timestamps for every mouseclick or touch gesture. We seek to reveal clues about human perceptions of the nature of engagement in dialogue, by offering rich support for intuitive experimental design, as well as crowd-sourced data analytics for dialogue. The goal is to more deeply understand the linguistic, cognitive, and interactional processes that underlie the dynamics of engagement in interaction.

To learn more about Rezonator, check out the following (or see the sidebar):

  • Roadmap: Plans for Rezonator development
  • Fundamentals: Basic structures that underlie the design of Rezonator
  • Functions: Features and functionality of Rezonator
  • Resources: Links to selected resources that may be useful for building Rezonator
  • Research: Research tools and strategies, including Rezonator Analytics
  • Data: Types of data for use with Rezonator
  • Languages: Extending Rezonator to apply to additional languages
  • Games: Design principles and game concepts for games of resonance
  • Community: Opportunities to contribute to the Rezonator community
Clone this wiki locally