A semiotic theory of systems derived from language would have the purpose of classifying all the systems of linguistic expression: philosophy, ideology, myth, poetry, art, as much as the dream, lapsus, and free association in a pluridimensional matrix that will interact with many diversified fields. In each one of these discourses it is necessary to consider a plurality of questions, the essenc...

In this paper I present the view that inquiry in education can profit from insights from semiotics. Semiotics holds that cognition, or semiosis, is the building up of structures of signs from experience. We create a personal world, an Umwelt, that determines what we perceive and know. The environment also “affords” various structures and these affordances offer special ways to interact with the...

Silveira, Milene S.; de Souza, Clarisse S.. Designer-to-User MetaCommunication in Human-Computer Interaction: help system design and development. Rio de Janeiro, 2002. 147p. DSc. Thesis Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro This work is based on the Semiotic Engineering theory of Human-Computer Interaction. This theory views the application interface as...

Recent theoretical developments in information quality research have focused on defining, understanding and assessing data quality. The frameworks are intended to further theoretical knowledge as well as inform practice. Prior experimental work on the impact of data quality upon management decision-making is not based explicitly on theoretically-grounded data quality frameworks. As a result, re...

Semiotic perspectives on HCI take human-computer interaction as a special case of computer-mediated human communication. Through the interface, systems designers communicate to users their design vision as well as how the system can or should be used for a variety of purposes. To date, there hasn’t been enough empirical research in HCI exploring this complex phenomenon. This paper reports an em...

The following paper discusses the challenges faced in designing a flexible, easy-to-use, cross-platform software tool for modeling, analyzing and retrieving meaning from multimedia data. In a project currently being undertaken at the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI), at the National University of Singapore (see http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/), social ...

Taking the example of two 1960s popular spy films this paper explores how social semiotics can make a contribution to the analysis of film music. Following other scholars who have sought to create inventories of sound meanings to help us break down the way that music communicates, this paper explores how we can draw on the principles of Hallidayan functional grammar to present an inventory of m...

Abstract Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, this case, speakers Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest /i/ backing is invoked signal negative affect. demonstrates h...