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This animation shows how one can express (or imply) a complex set of emotions with a very small set of words. This is one of the important questions of our research -- when so much of the value of informal knowledge has to do with unstated, shared and understood information, how can one extract the complex meaning of something like this? How can one classify, organize and present such information?

You might even say that a piece like this has to "grow" on you before you understand it. Much of the tacit knowledge in human organizations is like this animation; it's not easy to classify or even describe, but you know what it means (and how to use it) when you see it.

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