What makes interactive media interesting to you:
The reason that i have chosen to study interactive media is because i think it will grow very big in the future and has many possibilitys. The things we have seen so far is by my own thought only the beginning.
The part that interests me the moust is how we can develop different types of interactive media and how they can benefit the experience of somting. That as a user ill be able to influence something that is happening in real time. Or in other aspects gett a deeper and richer experience of somthing. I dont realy have specific field in mind right now becase media as a whole interests me.
What would you and what would you not consider interaction with respect to consciousness:
Interaction for me is a way to communicate with something and through that get some kind of direct response. But the response i get shuld be different depending on how i comunicate. That dosent mean that it has to be living thing. It culd be for example a digital game or a machine.
Something that i do not consider as interaction is a action where the reciving part dosent consider your act. For example if you push a button to turn on a light there is no interaction thats just the value of on and off. But if you have a dimmer you can manipulate the light with different strength, you have different choises and consequenses.
These are just my philosofical thoughts about interaction and i´m well awere that other people would dissagre.
I agreee with you Kamil and the thoughts about what makes interactive media so interesting. I also think we have only seen the beginning of something completely new in this field of area and thats really exiting. What interaction is och isn't often lies in the eyes of the user of course. For me it usually starts with an action which leads to a reaction. So personally just switching a button to make a room light up is interaction for me. But again like you said aswell, I understand not everyone would agree with me.. :-)
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