Interactivity , Interaction Design and Installation

Interactivity , Interaction Design and Installation November 4, 2008

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“…Interaction is the most common acticity between humans. They are interactive living beings who make objects, talk with each other, write texts and pass these on to others…”
-Masaki Fujihata, Hierarchies of Communication, ZKM

We are in this class: Introduction to Digital Media, interactivity happens with digital media.

“Computer is just a tool. It still depends on the users to use it in a good or bad way”

“Technology shapes our life. New form of interactive technology will enable new practices of works, entertainment, etc.”

We have 4 roles in the interaction process:

Audience – broadcast mode of communication
User – functional system, e.g. Product design, software
Participant – active role to co-create something
Player – performative role to assert identity

Relation between the action taker and feedback to the action taker…

Forms of Interactivity with new media

One form of interactivity relies on replicating the interpersonal and its value for the appropriation of meaning.
New Media forms are thus modeled on Providing the possibility of exchange and interplay

The second form of interactivity privileged in new media forms is their capacity to provide complete environments. The objective of these new media forms is a kind of immersive state.

The third direction in the development and use of interactivity was a kind of representation of difference from the forms of interaction that past media forms presented.
It promise of change and empowerment intersected with the audience’s desire for greater control of its media forms.

Principles of New Media (by Lev Manovich)

Numerical representation – created from scratch on computers, converted from analog media (digitzation)
Modularity – object-oriented authoring software, structured programming practice
Automation –
Variability
Transcoding

This is super abstract right?

Take a simpler way, let’s explore different kind of interactive media.