Comments on: What is Interaction? Are There Different Types?

By: Max Song

Max Song — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:21:50 +0000

This is a great piece, thank you for sharing. I’ve recently entered the world of computer programming, and could really appreciate your metaphors of

coding as a learning system interacting with a linear system.

Synthetic biology, on the other hand, and bioengineering are examples of a learning system interacting with a closed feedback loop system (a cell).

It is profoundly interesting what learning systems find “entertaining” though. From this perspective, ideas of pushing gamification are pretty low on the order chain. It seems more of a deception, that a simple feedback loop can control the attention of the learning system involved in it.

The highest order that you listed, conversing, is mostly limited to humans nowadays. And somewhere in there is the idea of subterfuge, or of not being able to completely understand something. As argument, imagine if that a computer program repeated broke the expectations of a user- the user would suspect that the program was “intelligent”. Or the challenges of interacting with other people, and the immense world of politics, of continuous anticipation and frustration.

Thanks again for the article, it has given me something great to think about

By: Ussene Omar

Ussene Omar — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:11:18 +0000

I ejoyed it very much, and would to say that classroom interaction is crucial in particular for learning. what i have seen these days is that some language techers care about the classroom interation if so they lack awareness of it……!

By: marie

marie — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:17:59 +0000

not alot of help thanks!

By: madaksi siraji youngdool

madaksi siraji youngdool — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:23:48 +0000

it is nice

By: Ernest Edmonds

Ernest Edmonds — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:47:08 +0000

Enjoyed it too. My paper below will probably be of interest in exactly the same area, as it covers the same issues.

Ernest

Edmonds, E. A. (2007). Reflections on the Nature of Interaction. CoDesign: International Journal of Co-Creation in Design and the Arts. Taylor & Francis Group, UK: September 2007, Vol. 3 Issue 3. pp 139-143.See http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a772640193

By: See-ming Lee

See-ming Lee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:52:44 +0000

Great article, Hugh.

I find it particularly insightful that most of what we seen today is mostly reactive and lacking true interactive component.

Your analysis of of the different types of systems is very interesting. Thanks!

By: Rolfe A. Leary

Rolfe A. Leary — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:35:22 +0000

Very interesting view of ‘interaction’. I’ve focused on biological interactions, and followed the works of Edward F. Haskell, who generalized the arrow diagrams in Einstein and Infeld (EofP), page 17, to produce an interaction based mathematical coordinate system (see cover of Main Currents in Modern Thought 7(2), 1949). Most biologists/ ecologists (like E.P.Odum) have used Haskell’s coaction cross tabulation of (+,-,0) that gives 9 types (groups). Others of us have used the mathematical coordinate system that includes both type, as well as intensity, of interaction (RALeary, Interaction theory in forest ecology and management, 1985; Mattson and Addy, Science, 1975; and others). I’m not certain if there is any overlap with the explanation of ‘interaction’ in this excellent piece. Just found it. Need more time to digest. Very nice website. Glad I found it.

By: Ivan Walsh

Ivan Walsh — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:45:50 +0000

Thank you for this excellent article.

By: jeremy yuille

jeremy yuille — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:22:11 +0000

fantastic work! sorry I can't comment deeper, on iPhone.

one thing I'm really digging here is the way you've integrated cybernetics into the interaction model. it's been left out for too long, and is an important antecedent; though not all consuming, as some would argue.

this will be a great reading for students. thanks again.