Interactivity & Human Computer Interaction Brief 01

INTERACTIVITY & HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION!

Medium Is the Message!

INTERACTIVITY Brief 1

Comparing  Itunes and Grooveshark

Fig.3 Grooveshark Interface Screen Shot

Itunes is a music downloading site consisting of a grey background with black lettering and a blue background in the side Interface bar, It’s interface is not simple and easy to navigate through compared to grooveshark, Its labelling is quite confusing and too much is crammed into it and not much colour making it look quite bland and very official looking. You must buy the song before you can listen to it in full It only allows you to use one computer to download song onto,. If another computer is used to download songs on it will ask to format your device and delete everything on your device if you proceed, but once the songs have been downloaded onto your advice you can listen to the songs anywhere as long as you have battery power. Grovesharks interface has a much more stylistic look and is friendlier looking as well as more easy to interactive with. Grooveshark allows the users to create a free account to listen to music with, allowing the user to create free playlists for them self’s, but also is possible for the user to pay extra money for extra settings such as being able to change the background. Though the songs are only accessible when there is access to the internet, and the songs are not downloadable.

Fig.3 Grooveshark Interface Screen Shot

Comparing both ITunes and Grooveshark to radio, brings up pros and cons on both sides. With Radio allowing the user the aility to interact more with both the coosing of the next song as well as competitions, Itunes and Grooveshark only really offer the ability of listening to music and not much more. Wth the radio there is a DJ aslo choosing music so it offers a variety of music that you yourself may of not ever heard of and would of never known to search for. The radio only offers songs when you have access to a radio channel and it changes in ditiffrent areas and songs that will be played are never defiant where as on both itunes and Grooveshark the user always has contoll and less limited access to songs the users liking than on the radio it’s more randome.

Image References:

Itunes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/29/itunes_11_released/

Grooveshark Screen shot: http://grooveshark.com/