Interactive

in-ter-ac-tive ( n t r- k t v) adj.

1. Acting or capable of acting on each other.

2. Computer Science. Of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.

Interaction - Interaction is a response experience in which both actor and reactor are engaged in a mutually affecting experience. This means that the system is comprised of two interactive partners. In the case of interactive media, one partner may only be mildly interactive (such as a computer) and only programmatically so. While most of the computer actor’s actions are the result of predetermined programming, if the variations are ample enough, it can be said that this actor is interactive (making it an interactor).

The future of computer interaction will necessarily include the computer as an interactor and not simply as the medium within which people interact. The question to answer is this “How does one go about making the computer an interactor?