Between playing a game and enjoying a narration there is a semiotic and semantic common ground: interpretation and meaning-making. A semiotic methodology to describe situated gaming practices will be presented in three phases. At first, the intuitive concept of "meaning" will be discussed and substituted by the generative semiotic notion of "content". Then the structuralist semiotic notion of "...

At last year’s OHS workshop, I have introduced a semiotic approach to hypermedia on a broader basis [11]. This year’s contribution shall be dedicated to (still theoretic but somewhat more concrete) thoughts concerning content based retrieval (CBR) and navigation (CBN) which were inspired by a quote from W.B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919.

Mind is based on intelligent cognitive processes, which are not limited by language and logic only. The thought is a set of informational processes in the brain, and such processes have the same rationale as any other systematic informational processes. Their specifics are determined by the ways of how brain stores, structures, and process this information. Systematic approach allows representi...

This contribution gives an overview about different approaches to semantic spaces. It is not a exhaustive survey, but rather a personal view on different approaches which use metric spaces for the representation of meanings of linguistic units. The aim is to demonstrate the similarities of apparently different approaches and to inspire the generalisation of semantic spaces tailored to the repre...

This book provides a semiotic analysis of computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs. Since computer programs are well defined and rigid, applying semiotic theories to them will help to reorganize the semiotic theories themselves. Moreover, semiotic discussion of programming theory can provide possible explanations for why programming has developed...

in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI. Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza. order to produce usable concepts, models and methods for the benefit of non-. research projects at the intersection between semiotics and HCI. In order to be of any scientific value, semiotic engineering must provide. www2.serg.inf.puc-rio...

Formal models of natural language often suffer from their excessive complexity which, in our opinion, may be due to the underlying approach itself. In th is paper we introduce a semiotic model of language which is only linearly complex. The existence of such a model is conform w ith the experience th a t language is a real-tim e complex phenomenon.

Learning objects are considered as complex signs, since they convey meaning through a physical support and are related to real or conceptual object. In addition, it is possible to define a sequence of learning objects that can be modeled as having a narrative structure the advantage of this proposal is that, from the structural theory of narrative, content and expression can be treated separate...

A semiotic perspective of mathematical activity provides an alternative way of conceptualising the teaching and learning of mathematics. For it rejects the wholly psychological perspective that focuses exclusively on mental structures and functions. It also rejects the straightforwardly assessment or performance focussed perspective that is concerned only with student behaviors. Instead it offe...

The existing diversity of languages for special purposes leads to their their commonly highly complex and thoroughly differentiated terminologies. Getting an overview has become almost impossible without appropriate terminology management systems. Existing terminology management systems cannot effectively accommodate regular changes, updates of or additions to multilingual terminologies. While ...