In going through these readings,  I found the ideas in Krueger’s Responsive Environments to be very compelling.  The idea that this newly evolving field of responsive environments is one that is limited to certain fields is a bit ridiculous.  He talks about how in the early stages, computer scientist were not taken seriously by the art community and vice versa.  I think that this field is vastly changing our preconceived notions of design and how we view and interact with it that it needs a multidisciplinary approach in order to give it the richness that it is demanding.  There is so much to master both technical and design wise that needs to go into these projects to make them successful.  He also brings in the idea that “response is the medium”.  He forgoes the notion that what the “artist” creates is a pure aesthetic form.  Here the artist is designing the situation and all of the possibilities of what can happen.  He is designing a system that can accept inputs and translate them into outputs through a continuous feedback loop with the interactive user.  Here the interaction and response is valued beyond the pure aesthetic of how the system looks or how it appears when it reacts.  Krueger’s projects began to think past a simple one to one reaction and response system and started to treat the screen as a virtual space in which an input can be free from the constraints on the real physical world.  I think that this is an interesting notion.  However, I do not totally agree with the letting go with the aesthetic of the system in lieu of a better response.  I think that both should be considered equally.  One will be more apt to interact with something if it is better designed or appealing to approach.  This will make people more willing to use something or to begin to treat is past a simple novelty.