After reading this chapter I realized that a strongly interactive system is really like having a good conversation. Both sides have to listen think and speak well for it to feel alive. If one side fails it just becomes boring or frustrating. So for a system to be truly interactive it has to respond to the user in a way that feels meaningful not just random or automatic. I liked how Crawford explains that interaction is not the same as reaction like with a fridge or a movie you can only watch but you don’t actually talk to it. That made me think about my p5 sketches because sometimes I make things move or change when the mouse touches them but it feels kind of one-sided. I realized that to make them more interactive I could have the objects respond in different ways depending on how you interact with them like changing speed direction color or even start a little animation that is unique for each action. I also liked thinking about giving each object its own “voice” like the dice in my project could react differently to the same input so it feels more alive and less predictable. I want to experiment more with letting the user affect not just the movement but the behavior and appearance over time so it feels like the sketch is listening and thinking a little bit before it reacts. Overall reading this made me want to make my sketches feel more like a real conversation between me and the code rather than just me controlling it.