Week 5

A user's mental model regarding an object's personality and surrounding interactions is the way in which a person would expect for something to work. In regards to project 4 the person would expect for the object's personality and interactions to be like those of a person, since the user probably hasn't interacted with anything with a personality that isn't a person. The user only has experience with interacting with people on this level thus the user would expect the object to interact as a person would.

This mental model may contrast with the programmers implementation model since the user is envisioning a humanistic interaction with this object while the designer is constructing a program. The user would expect the object to act as a human would act, yet for this type of interaction to take place the designer would have to develope something on the scale of artificial intelligence, which I doubt they intend to do for a key chain or refridgerator.