This document discusses the concept of interaction between people and technology. It explores how interactive media like interactive television allows viewers to engage more directly by letting them change the channel or view, participate in quizzes, or control the narrative. The document suggests that as technology evolves, media will allow for more participatory culture where consumers can interact, create and participate rather than just consume and spectate passive content. It poses questions about how people currently engage with television, games, and streaming media.

1. Ghosts in the Machine
Miles Metcalfe

2. What is interaction?

4. People
• Is this interaction?
• What is interaction?

6. Things
• Users of tools
• Cornerstone of design
• Foundation of culture

7. Interactive media

8. Image: Mortal Coil

9. Interactive television
• You can turn it off
• Quiz Call and the like
• Change the view
• Change the script

10. Performance
• Live
• Recorded

11. Pop quiz

12. Do you...?
• Watch TV?
• Watch scheduled TV?
• Pay the licence fee?
• Press the red button?

13. Do you...?
• Play computer games?
• Use the web?
• Download TV?
• iPlayer or P2P?
• Remix TV or create machinima?

14. Participatory culture
• Consume
• Spectate
• Interact
• Create
• Participate

15. Future narrative
• The fireside story that adapts in the telling
• Quiz Call
• Predetermined paths of a computer game
• 36 Dramatic Situations, 7 Basic Plots

16. Comments, questions?