Friday 2 September 2011

Interaction

Philosophy and Exploration

I wanted to explore what the essence of interaction is.

My first thought was: What happens if you take interaction away? What are we left with? No matter how much we give to the world we would never get anything back in return. We could never be anything more then observers like a deist god. I think this suggests that a major component of interaction is purpose.

Next I thought of interaction as a conversation as the assignment brief suggests. When speaking to someone we have a certain level of control over the conversation. However it is the variation in response that makes the conversation interesting. In this case variability is shown to be a component of interaction.

I hope to produce a design that focuses on providing a purpose to the user. This means that they should have a reason to continue interacting with it for more than 20 seconds. Its response should also be variable to the user's actions.

Future Flickrites?

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