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Playing
Humans especially like to play during their childhood. Playing gives them an opportunity to practise skills. Yet play is also a social behaviour through which humans relate to one another. There are countless theoretical approaches as to why humans play. At any rate, playing is a typical behaviour of animals and humans.
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Ada’s play behaviour
Ada’s play behaviour best demonstrates the fact that Ada does not function according to a set programmed schema, but reacts in a goal-oriented and situationally dependent way. Ada tries to get the visitors to play and manoeuvre them into the correct «position» for the game. She accomplishes this by making use of her various light signals as well as corresponding sounds. In so doing, she has to learn which type of signals lead to success and which do not.
She knows various games: a game involving movement (similar to «catch»), a game of strategy and a game using music. If visitors fail to react to one game, then she abandons it and tries again later.
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