Recitation 4: Individual Reflection by Robin Luo

For me, interaction is the occurrence of entities reacting and responding to one another. My definition is mainly influenced by Zach Lieberman’s Interactive Art article.

Two projects I looked into was Tactile Headset and this Nike installation. The Tactile Headset are two white spheres hanging from a ceiling by metal chains and vibrates in a pattern. The Nike installation is a basketball hoop in front of an LED wall which lights up in different ways when you shoot. 

I think the Nike installation aligns better with my definition of interaction because each entity communicates with each other. With the Tactile headset, it continually vibrates and it doesn’t communicate with the user. The main interaction is the user’s reaction or experience of it. With the Nike installation, the LED panels light up when the user shoots a basket and doesn’t react when the user doesn’t react with it. This isn’t the case with the Tactile headset. 

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For my group, we created a beanie which records your dreams and allows you the ability to watch them. We simply thought it would be interesting for us the ability to watch our dreams because most of the time we forget them when we wake up or we only remember portions of it. It relates to my definition of interaction because it allows us the ability to react and respond to our subconscious. Although we can’t physically see our subconscious mind, our device we will be able to interact with it in a more concrete form by seeing and hearing it. Because our subconscious isn’t responding to our present actions because they are a part of ourselves that we can’t consciously control, it can’t communicate to us directly in the present moment. However, our devices bridges and lets us communicate the present moment or our conscious moments with moments that are not so we are able to “respond” to it.   

  

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