Beryl Graham Wrote wrote:
> As for a taxonomy of 'levels of interaction 'something I've
>found useful as a curator and a consumer of interactive new media
>art is a very rough and crude metaphor of 'conversation'. Is this
>artwork:
>1. A monologue?
>2. A choice of monologues? (navigate through choices)
>3. A dialogue with a fruit machine? (push buttons, get responses/ rewards)
>4. A dialogue with a voicemail system? (audience can leave own
>'message' within a template)
>5. A real conversation? (complex, equal, elaborating, responsive,
>developing, creative)
Some mad(ish), to quote the Crumb link, IBMers came up with:
1. Scripted - set points at which a program can branch in response to input.
2. Responsive - a system of distributed components each of which respond
independently to stimulus (events).
3. Behavioral - different possible responses to stimuli are selected on the
basis of a combination of it's own state and the external events.
4. Learning - similar to 3 but has memory of events and can change it's
responses.
5. Intentional - a further layer of interpretation of the input
(perception) is interposed between the stimulus and the behavioral response
so as to provide the program with ideas about the user - their likely next
move or their desired outcome or perhaps it decides they are experts or
amateurs. It might apply intentions to the program itself - for example it
might decide to get terse/verbose or become deep/superficial.
see http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part1/sparacino.html for the
excellent IBM paper - apologies in advance to IBM in the likely event that
I have misrepresented anything!
Of course no interaction with a machine can currently approach the
complexity of human interaction. Perry Hoberman's recent exhibits depend
upon both interactions with the programme and interactions between other
people using the exhibit. Perhaps it would be useful to differentiate these
somehow when discussing 'interactivity'. (Winteractivity? - apologies to
Mac and UNIX users ;-)
Dave Franklin.
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