Abstract:
This study looks at interaction at a fundamental structural level, elucidating basic
elements of how interaction works among adaptive organisms. This understanding
then points to how to develop suitable interfaces for interaction among people and
intelligent-adaptive-machines or artworks. I first consider how sensory processes
derive from basic biological needs for energy, and that communications, and thereby
interaction, develop from reciprocal behaviours of organisms in their environment. I
then consider how we might think about the quality of an immersive interaction. Finally
I illustrate these considerations in discussing the interfaces used in a range of
interactive artworks.
