Homework day 1-Nicole

Circuit 1

Circuit 2

Circuit 3

Question 1 One example of how we interact with technologies on a day to day basis is the way we control our televisions. For most occasions, the remote that comes with that TV we have is our medium of control. We indicate the TV of what programs we’d like to watch at any given time by pressing the remote. As a result, the TV provides us entertainment and information within our demands. In this case, TV is a tool that we use, and subsequently interact with, to satisfy our curiosity and relieve our stress. 

Another more advanced example may be Siri. We can instruct Siri to perform certain operations on our phone, conduct research online, or just chat with us. The way we apply our voices to implant demands, combined with the way Siri completes our demands using its advanced mechanisms, constitutes an interaction. 

In either case, the way human take certain actions upon a specific technological product and collect certain responses in return would probably define interaction. 

Question 2

• Wires: conducts electricity
• LED: double terminal electronic component. It signals presence of electricity when it’s connected to a circuit.
• Resistor: reduce the flow of current(with a variable resistor, the amount of resistance can be controlled)
• Multimeter: is able to measure current, voltage and resistance in numerical values
• Capacitor: since it can store a certain amount of electricity before releasing them all at once, it can stabilize the flow of electricity.
• Switch: Activate/deactivate the circuit and its designated output
• Transistor & relay: a device with above or equal to 3 terminals; it may switch or amplify currents
• Integrated circuits: a chip that contains multiple groups of circuits. 
• Breadboard: contains holes that grips the ends of wires; can be used to module complex circuit

Question 3 Interaction is greatly improving social living standards and elevating human’s dominance in the natural world. People like Marco Polo satisfied their desire to learn about another at the cost of great financial sacrifices and life threats centuries ago, while they may also combat severe natural disasters or unfriendly natives; however, if I’d like to learn about a foreign country today, I may turn on a culturally oriented television program to do so. As Lieberman explained in the video, his target audience is an artist whose mobility was deprived, sinking in the very despair his physical conditions have created for him. In the past, no one has the slightest chance to resolve the cruelty of our physicality. In neither way can an artist like him obtain the luxury to pick up a spray bottle again. However, this situation is changed by Lieberman’s interactive craft. It might be a small step for the society, but a dramatic twist for this individual’s life. In no way should interactive technology’s growing potential in nourishing lives be ignored. In the future, technology, under its current rapid developments, would further benefit human beings in ways yet imagined.