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Figure 1.
Response without transitions.
make, but it does take up a lot of space; the sceptical reader can find more
in (Sengers 1998).
As our excerpt begins, the Patient notices the schedule of daily activities
which is posted on the fence, and goes over to read the schedule. The Overseer,
noticing that the Patient is at the schedule and that the user is watching the
Patient, goes over to the schedule, changes the time to 10:00, and forces the
Patient to engage in the activity for that hour: exercising.
The goal of this part of the plot is to communicate to the user the daily
regime into which the Patient is strapped. The Patient does not have auton-
omy over its actions; it can be forced by the Overseer to engage in activities
completely independently of its desires. The specific behavioral change from
reading the schedule to exercising, then, should show the user that the agent
changes its activity because (1) it notices the Overseer, (2) the Overseer en-
forces the scheduled activities; (3) the activity that is currently scheduled is
exercising.
Without transitions, the Patient's response to the Overseer is basically
stimulus-response (Figure 1). The Patient starts out reading the schedule. As
soon as the Patient senses the Overseer, it immediately starts exercising. This
