It was a pretty simple task, but I think it was a really good example of accessibility and how to adjust for people’s needs. The task of ordering ourselves by height was fairly simple, although as the professor pointed out there were ways that we did the task that differed between each other; I primarily compared my height to others and put myself in place without needing to say much. Not to mention there was a major element of collaboration, with people asking others who was taller between them.

Ordering ourselves by our birthdays while being unable to talk was far more of a challenge, and I found it particularly interesting in how people found different alternatives to communicate with one another. But it was also interesting to me how we made mistakes, as we had different ways of understanding as well. I ended up in the wrong order because, when communicating with the people around me, we were using our fingers to show the day of our birth. I put up both hands twice, then 5 fingers for 25. But the people around me were using one hand to signify the 10th digit. I ended up thinking about the entire thing a lot more than I probably should have because of that.