On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:13 +0100, Artem Baguinski wrote:
> i was trying to contrast interactive and non-interactive (automated).
>
> the most interactive way to change all foo's to bar's would be to find
> them in the text, delete and type new values in.
>
> less interactive would be to ask editor to replace them and let it ask
> you about each foo.
>
> least interactive and most automated is to ask to replace all.
As you say this is the definition of interaction used in HCI, but I
think what came out of another discussion here is that perhaps this is
not 'true' interaction... That is, action + reaction does not equal
interaction. The two actors have to both be acting in order for it to
be interactive. Maybe others understand this better and will clarify
the difference between action and reaction.
Some would say no program is interactive yet but I think for example a
chess playing program is interactive (unless it's not well written and
the algorithms it is following are obvious).
alex
Received on Wed Jan 09 2008 - 10:41:59 GMT