Communication Lab

I did the communication lab with Natalie. It was easily my favorite lab so far. It was fun using the four different types of communication. We took turns being the person who was trying to figure out the problem and the one trying to explain it with whatever limitations were set on us. Personally, I liked being the one trying to figure it out because I could look at every one of the different clues that I was given by Natalie's body language, her hand signs, etc.
Natalie has a picture on her blog of Activity 3 and the Kennex (however you spell that) structure that I built along with the one she made through my written instructions. That was the hardest one. Somehow, the instructions I gave lead her astray and her final piece was very different from mine.
Below are the guiding questions and the post-lab questions:

1. Which type of communication was your strongest?

I think the one from Activity 1 was the strongest because we had the most methods of communication. It was the one that worked the best, her drawing was almost identical to mine.


2. Which type of communication was the most difficult for each of you?

For me, Activity 3 was the most difficult because it was hard to know how my written instructions would be interpreted. I thought I was giving clear instructions that would have Natalie make the exact same structure as mine, but it turns out that she interpreted them different from mine.


3. Which type of communication types do you think will be the most important for your mission to the space station? Why do you think so?

I think gestures without sound (like Activity 2) and purely written instructions (like Activity 3) will be the most important for our mission. I think that because although I don't know what exactly we will be doing on our mission, it could be a possibility that we find ourselves in a situation where we have to be silent and the only method of communication we can use is gestures so we don't make any noise. I also think that it could be just as likely that we get separated or find ourselves in a different situation where we have to resort to leaving written instructions/advice for each other and don't get to see or talk to the people that we are leaving them for.