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Week Seven Summary:

Tutorial Two:

Today we again discussed mouse interactions and started to think about our own interactions which we will be producing. Ben instructed us to start making story boards to think about our interactions then choose one and specifically think about what each mouse movement does.

Here are my story boards which I quickly made before class:

With this interaction you throw the ball with the mouse which causes the smaller balls to bounce around until they become static. 

Answering Questions:

1.) Takes the user 5 seconds to learn the interactions
2.) they are learning that throwing the ball causes the smaller balls to react and go every where
3.) It is still interesting as you dont know where the balls go

With this interaction you have a alpha object which there are millions of tiny objects which in a sense run away from the mouse object you move creating a nice visualization.

1.) User is learning about how the smaller objects move away when the mouse is moved around them

2.) they learn in 2 seconds

3.) it is still interesting after you learn the interaction as its like they have a mind of their own.

With this interaction it is more like a game where you have to "swat" the balls.

1.) user learns to swat the ball
2.) learn the interaction in 2 seconds
3.) it is still interesting as it requires you to hit the ball.













After that ben told us to go through and choose one and look at each mouse movement in more depth,

Here is my chosen interaction, the alpha object moves around as the smaller ones move away as if it is living and has its own mind.

If you click the mouse the objects start to head to the Alpha object in a vertex form.

As you release the right click they all spread out from the alpha  object.










From this I will start to create my interaction on processing