Lecture on Interactive Design

On thursday 6th march we had a lecture that was to show us what interactivity design represents to us in our everyday life.
We were given a hand out to read on comment upon it on our journal.
So my notes are as follows:

Interactivity is all around us and is a deep part of our lives.
Complexity of information and human interaction makes the design task more challenging.

What is interaction design?

Designing of interactive products or services to support the way people communicate nd interact in there everyday lives.
(sharp, rogers & preece 2007)

• who the users are?
• what activities are being carried out?
• where te interaction is taking place?

You need to explain what interactions are avalible, things the users can do with the environment that are in and around the types of activities avalible.

we were told to have a look at some soft-cinema by Lev Manovich and Andreas Kateky.

"The old computing is about what the computers can do! The new computing is about what people can do!"
-we are creating new worlds.
computer systms and software arethe new millenium.
"To connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information fromt he internet to the relevent place in physical space."

(www.semapida.org/community/learnmore)