Homework day 4 – Nicole

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Question 1

I once had school assignments about designing toys for pandas and designing chairs for library uses. For the panda’s toy, I sketched out my ideas with pencils, recreated them in TinkerCad, and 3D-printed them. It involves a lever which the pandas can pull to exercise their body. In the meantime, the only difference separating the chair project’s procedures from the panda project is that I transferred my downloaded Tinkercad file onto Fusion 360 in order to perform the laser-cutting process. From my observations, Cura, which is introduced in class today, is very similar to Fusion in terms of the necessary process to follow. These methods are very helpful for my future projects because they introduced rather convenient methods to manufacture a model product sufficient to be tested upon. If my users can get a firsthand experience in handling my product, they can provide the most relevant responses needed to improve my product. For example, if I am designing a suitcase, my users can then evaluate whether the suitcase is comfortably sized enough to be taken on a short term trip. 

Question 2

Besides the interchanges of actions between multiple subjects (the typical action response model) at the immediate moment of engagement, interaction affects the internal state (memory, mood, etc) of the involvers, an impact that extends to prolonged impacts and might only manifest in the future. If the mutual engagement is enduring (and if people are participating voluntarily), such changes are likely to occur. The form of interaction is typically fixed; however, any party might shape or enrich the other plus the outcomes produced in the process. 

Question 3

Audiences’ sustainable engagement over the interaction is a dominant factor. As mentioned before, the way interaction changes the internal stage of the audience partly defines interaction. Given that the audiences are acting upon their individuals wills, if the interaction slipped through their mind quickly as to be too minimal to affect their overall course of development, then the interaction is negligible and is not likely to be revisited over time. On that note, the excess of initial attraction creates a similar effect. It’s a success in stimulating the involvers’ senses, but would quickly fail to sustain that strength of reaction. The involvers can get bored at once.