Our exhibit on adaptation is the fruit of many discussions and evolutions. Initially, the group was composed of the two Bens, Michael, and myself. That was a really cool idea to play with, especially in reference to the 'powers of ten' video that has been shown in many a high school science class. At this point, Michelle joined the group, and we discussed The Tipping Point , a book mentioned by Prof. Resnick in class. However, we realized that it would be a pretty difficult theme to represent easily and coherently, so we started to veer towards the idea of adaptation and changes.
Adaptation can be the result of trial-and error.
Many systems can successfully adapt to change in this manner. We found it quite difficult to emphasize different ways of looking at adaptation. We knew that we wanted to incorporate different representations of adaptation, and make those representations appealing to our target age group. Ideally, the random sentence generator would also be able to associate what it generates with what the user has typed beforehand, thereby providing some type of continuity. The AdaptiveMusic exhibit posed a bit of a problem at first.