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=== Assistant: Got it. ===
Got it. Let’s frame this as the opening of a course where the participants are actors, but grounded in Digital Design (MA/MSc) so it feels intentional, contemporary, and academically solid.

Below is a course start module you can actually run on day one.

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Embodied Digital Design: Acting, Presence, and Interaction

==== This course treats actors as digital designers.Instead of starting with screens, tools, or software, we begin with the body, voice, perception, and interaction as primary design instruments. ====

Actors already design experiences:
* They design attention
* They design emotion
* They design interaction
* They design meaning in time

Digital design simply extends this into technological spaces.

==== By the end of this course, actors will be able to: ====
# Use acting techniques to design interactive digital experiences
# Translate performance principles into UX, UI, and interaction design
# Understand the body as an interface
# Create performative digital prototypes (live, recorded, or simulated)
# Critically reflect on presence, absence, and agency in digital systems

==== Core Question: ====

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===== - Presence Mapping:Actors enter a space and alter presence without movement, only intention. =====
* Latency Exercise:One actor responds with delayed timing to simulate digital lag.
* Signal vs Noise:Minimal gestures communicate maximum meaning.

===== - Presence → UX clarity =====
* Timing → System response
* Gesture → Input method

==== Core Question: ====

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===== - Meisner-style repetition, but one partner is a “system” =====
* Improvised scenes with fixed rules (algorithms)
* Breaking character = system error

===== - Improvisation → Adaptive systems =====
* Rules → Algorithms
* Listening → Feedback loops

==== Core Question: ====

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===== - Branching scene performance =====
* Audience interrupts the actor
* Actor must adapt while maintaining emotional truth

===== - Non-linear storytelling =====
* Interactive narrative design
* Game and immersive media logic

==== Core Question: ====

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===== - Acting for camera vs live space =====
* Acting for sensors (motion, sound, biometric)
* Performing for an imagined user

===== - Surveillance culture =====
* Data-driven design
* Ethics of digital presence

==== - Practical Project (60%)A performative digital artifact (interactive scene, prototype, VR moment, AI dialogue, or live system) ====
* Reflective Critical Paper (40%)Connecting acting theory with digital design theory

==== : ====

If you want, next we can:
* Adapt this specifically for MA vs MSc
* Add theory references (Stanislavski, Goffman, UX theory, HCI)
* Turn this into a validated university syllabus
* Design a final showcase or exhibition

Just tell me where this course is being taught and who it’s for.