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Interaction Experiments

A small week for public signifiers, adaptive hierarchy, and room-scale interface voice. The goal is to make implicit interaction visible and discussable through form, copy, and layout instead of treating sensing as an invisible technical layer.

These are not just demos about what a system sees. They are about what a system says back, how it says it, and who that language quietly assumes.

Week Plan

1. Calm Signifier

Prototype how one sensed classroom state can be communicated in calm, helpful, or creepy ways. This first experiment is live now and uses Pretext to route text inside a constrained public sign.

2. Adaptive Reading Field

A stable interface that adapts hierarchy instead of moving the map. It adds plain language, cultural bridge cues, and deeper-learning layers without breaking muscle memory.

3. Dynamic Slides

A live lecture deck where the slides themselves are Pretext-driven fields. Plain language, theory, glossary, and compare layers can be turned on without collapsing into a generic slide theme.

This module sits between interaction design theory and text systems: what the room senses is not enough. What matters is how the room speaks back, and how it supports different readers without moving the ground beneath them.

Live Prototype

Calm Signifier

Room-state controls on the left, public sign on the right. Switch between calm, helpful, and creepy system voices while the same sensing inputs stay fixed.

Prototype Pretext Public Text

Adaptive Reading Field

Stable navigation, adaptive hierarchy, and a Pretext-driven type field. Compare safe support layers against an intentionally bad over-adaptive version that moves the map.

Prototype Adaptive UI Cultural Bridge

Interaction Experiments Slides

A controller view and an isolated audience deck that explain Pretext, public signifiers, adaptive hierarchy, and new smart-object interface paradigms through dynamic typographic slides.

Lecture Pretext Slides Dynamic Deck
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