My definition of Interactive
My definition of interactive is similar to The Art of Interactive Design: I agree that interaction happens between two things, no matter use sounds, lights or touch. One actor’s action will be used as input of another actor. In my opinion, interaction is the transition of input and output. The project are build to receive input from people and then gives output to people, which can possibly cause new input from people.
Projects researched
The two projects that I researched were philosophy of mind and reaDIYmates.
Our project is something about human-being’s mind and consciousness and I think before we set framework to our project, we need to know what is mind and consciousness and how could they work. From the book, I think functionalism is the best way to explain our project. We can use the ideas from functionalism. For example, it says mental event is a kind of physical event and there are some interaction between them, which is similar to my understanding of interaction. So I assume that our mind can be like a state machine and that is the reason why we can use machine to imitate our mind.
The reaDIYmates is the one my teammate introduces to me. it is close to be interactive. I think it works like a Turing Machine. All the input from humans will be learned repeatedly by machine. After many times, machine can give a very good output just as people expect. And I think this technology allows machine to do more complex things in the future.
Our project
Our project named MiniMi uses some ideas from the definition of Interaction and functionalism. It will study people’s personalities, preferences and psychology states and then rebuild a new machine character. This machine, the AI, has very similar “mind” to its master. And according to our design, MiniMi is completely rational. Therefore, MiniMi can help people do most rational decisions, which is like our SloganL: we know you more than you know yourself. Because the MiniMi understands all its master need, , people only need use simplest words to interact with it and it will give the best output that people really need.
