Modeling interaction and media objects

Abstract

Interaction of users with computational devices has to meet the u sers intention on one side and needs to be specified in a formal manner which can be uniquely interpreted by computers. Thus, we need a model of interaction which meets the intensional understanding of users and which has an extensional description that is directly implementable. In this paper we develop a model for interaction on the basis of the notion of interaction objects. We show further how this notion can be specialized to internet-based interaction. In the later case we use media objects for interaction.