We could explicitly be collecting also emotions people have about various issues and discussions and visualize them. So to make it easier for people to feel what others feel and understand where they are coming from. Maybe even before we get into discussion and comments.

Maybe this could be initially just a form of a comment, where you could have a comment "hurt", or "happy" or something similar.

We could also aggregate those feelings and display how they are changing through time.

We could assign them to points as well.

During meetings, in projector view, this could be a form of a backchannel, that during discussion offline, the projected screen could have hearts and smileys and other symbols floating around as feedback to the people speaking, so that you could get a glimpse of the temperature of the room just by looking at the screen.

This idea of focusing on emotions is used in Taiwan.