Robert Markley

Well I went to Robert Markley's talk on Friday night and it was actually very interesting. He stated taht people respond differently to complex, embodied experiences differently than they do to text. This is the reason that the "talking heads," as he called them, were on his website rather than text. It is a more involved experience to actually see people talk than to read a script of what they said. He tried to incorporate this thought into the creation of his DVD-ROM. This is the reason that it is DVD-ROM instead of just a plain DVD - it's interactive and you can navigate around the DVD by yourself and on your own time. Overall, it was a very interesting talk and opened my mind to some things that I've never really thought of before.