The last weeks involved exploration again, this time focused on direct manipulation and agents. Discussions, prototypes, and of course iterations created the base of this exploration.

Goal of exploration:
- create WYSIWYG functionality: appearance = behaviour
- create complex/abstract behaviour (interaction, emergence, if-then, etc)
* explore & analyse possibilities
* explore user interaction & understanding

Direct manipulation
* program 1 object
* wearables -> behaviour = complexity

Lemmings behaviour
* objects interact via simple command objects
* wearables + interaction = complexity

Manipulating the agent
* program different objects to activate each other
* “The Incredible Machine”: creating complex system = complexity

Infect the agents
* program different objects to change each other
* system, cause and effect = complexity

Follow up directions
* direct manipulation & users => focus on user userstanding & robot understanding
combine dresses, what happens?
user learns by doing, robot also learns?

* direct manipulative interaction => focus on manipulating interaction
user (unconscious?) designs a complex system
lemmings/TIM principle

* dress changes behaviour <-> behaviour changes dress
concrete vs abstract
changeable dress vs behaviour IS the dress

* shift from ‘understanding inner workings’ to ‘understanding perceivable behaviour’
behaviour ‘behaves’, user changes something, behaviour changes
user forms mental model, does not have to be correct -> understanding should ‘match’

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