1st blog

Here is the 1st blog for Cart 453 here is the address for my team's Blog
http://453group.blogspot.com/

5.3

We have to built in the interactive designs not only the programming and programs to make it function in an actual sense, but also we must program is so that it does what we intend it to do. Because more often then not the electronic devices do not do what we intended of them to do. In the article they mention the “Cruise system” in a car and how they were worried about the correctness of the system in regard to what the user intended. As for the “Cruise system” all devices of the Interactive Design need control-function and control-interaction. So Interactive Design is not only about functionally but also usability of a device/product. Both aspects have to be design on the blue prints even before thinking about production.


5.4

Function: What it does as we use it ?

Behavior : How it does it ?

Interaction is more related to a product’s behaviours, then it’s function. Computational devices tend to act and therefore creating an interaction. The example given is the old engine car compared to our contemporary computational cars. It is not the function that differentiate the two, it is rather their behaviours, while the old engine car would overheat easily, new computational car distribute the heat in an evenly fashion (I would think) Because the interface of the computational cars was developed as well as it’s functions, it respect more of what we intend a car to be doing.


What is a Digital Nomad ?

To me a digital nomad would be an individual surrounding itself mostly with interactive devices and choosing one device over another depending on it’s behaviours rather then on it’s functionality. To me a Digital Nomad is not an individual of the future, they exist in the present. Anyone who is constantly looking for new gizmo's or trying to replace the old ones with newer version is in my book a Digital Nomad. It is almost as if technology is necessary for this individual to survive, they need to move from one piece of technology to another just like the nomads to change of location when the resources rarefy.

X-Box:

What differentiate an X-Box 360 from the old X-Box ? I would believe that it serves the same function then it’s predecessor, but it has a ton of new features and there fore interact differently thus behaving differently. What would be the function of an X-Box, they describe it as an home-entertainment system, it is no longer a gaming console like the Atari, Nintendo or Sega console. The X-Box can now replace your DVD player and other electronic devices. It is no more only gaming entertainment, it tries to surpass every other type of home entertainment and put it all in a box. What makes an X-Box is not neutral, it as been designed to serve a purpose and more often then not it will be used to serve the purpose it as been built for, a simple example would be the X-Box controller built primarily for right-handed, thus giving the left-handed player a disadvantage ( I would believe).