The Process model of communication

The famous Disney have figure out a special multi touch sensor which is the Botanicus Interacticus. Botanicus Interacticus is a new technology for designing highly expressive interactive plants , which both living and artificial. The designer had take interaction from computing devices and places it in the physical world using plant as an interactive medium.
This project is very special and simple. the instrumentation of small house living plant is simple and does not bring any damage to the plants. It requires only a single wire placed anywhere in the plant soil. After placing the wire in the plant soil, it allow the user to interacte by using gestures as sliding finger on the stem of the orchid, the wire will detect the gestures and touch and estimate the amount of touch contact. 
(http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/hci_botanicus_drp.htm)

The unique new project had let think of the process model of communication by Claude Shannon(1948)

sender :  The information source selects desire message or the originator of message.

encoder : The transmitter converts the message into signals.

decoder : The place of the signal which converts or decode the signals into message. The reverse process of encode.

receiver : The place to organize the signal that had been decode and  send to the final destination.

final destination : A destination for message from sender.

The sender’s messages converted into signals like waves or Binary data which is compact able to transmit the messages through cables or satellites. The decoder converts the binary data or waves send to receiver to organize into message that is understandable to the final destination to show out the message from the sender. Based on the final decoded message, the receiver gives feed back to sender. but if there are noise distressing the message it will affect the communication. The noise may affect the  process of communication which result receiver may not receive the correct message.

refer to the technology of Botanicus Interacticus

sender       :   People

encoder     :  Mostly use 'house plants' or small plant are used. 

channel     :   The wire that connect to the plant soil that carries multiple frequencies 

noise          :  Unrecognized  gestures or the distraction of the wire. 

reception  :   a chip and computer that control the signals

receiver     :  Programme that detects the signals and change it into specific sound

destination : Screen or speaker.

feedback   : The sound and graphic that present on the screen and speaker.