Down below are ideas of interactive artifacts that I have thought of for each of these fictional stories.
1) The Winter Market By William Gibson
- For this fiction reading I was thinking of a device similar to a music box in which you can wind up and play Lise’s thoughts but instead have it relate a certain memory with a certain sound because it seems like the narrator does not want her to be dead and wants to believe that she is still there. Since he has an album with all her raw thoughts, it can be possible to connect with program and create unique music representing Lise and there can be buttons that you can press to hear it and you can listen for messages. Although a problem with this is that it would not be real Lise anymore because she is technically not going to be the same as before, and maybe to the narrator that is really the most important part.
2) Newton’s Sleep By Ursula K. Le Guin
- In this reading, the main characters weren’t sure if people were having hallucinations or if what they were seeing was real and I feel like an interactive artifact for this situation could be like a screen that shows a certain scene but when you walk through the image it signals the device to switch a scene and that way it could represent two sides of the views. It would be similar to a t.v. or projector in the way that it shows an image but I want it to recognize a person and be able to react to that as a sign to project a vision of the persons memory and make it realistic. There can be views from different parts of the land they are in showing reality and hallucination, but it might be hard to tell which is which since they all show the same place.
3) The Fish of Lijiang By Chen Qiufan
- The man of this story is constantly talking about the changes in Lijiang from 10 years ago to the present and brings up the idea of time and how it feels to be caught up in it. For this story I was thinking that there can be a bunch of mirrors (kind of like a house of mirrors you see at the fairs) but as you walk through each one they change some aspect of you (could be looks, dress, facial emotions, etc) through the connection with a computer to reflect in the mirror. It can help you see the time you have lost and experience the changes through and through. It is like reliving your life.