Social software is a growing reality worldwide and several authors are discussing its use to promote social interaction in learning contexts. Although problems regarding privacy, reputation, and identity are commonly reported in social software, an explicit concern regarding peoples’ values is not a common practice in its design and adoption, in part, due to the lack of research in this subject...

This article combines the vocabulary of semiotics and category theory to provide a formal analysis of information visualisation. It shows how familiar processes of information visualisation fit the semiotic frameworks of both Saussure and Peirce, and extends these structures using the tools of category theory to provide a general framework for understanding information visualisation in practice...

A theoretical framework for grounding language is introduced that provides a computational path from sensing and motor action to words and speech acts. The approach combines concepts from semiotics and schema theory to develop a holistic approach to linguistic meaning. Schemas serve as structured beliefs that are grounded in an agent’s physical environment through a causal-predictive cycle. Spe...

This paper presents results of an ongoing interdisciplinary study to develop a computational theory of creativity for engineering design. Human design activities are surveyed, and popular computer-aided design methodologies are examined. It is argued that semiotics has the potential to merge and unite various design approaches into one fundamental theory that is naturally interpretable and so c...

Visual communication, especially advertising, must be multi-faceted and multidimensional in order to gain positive attention response from the community. The ads have a visual narrative composed of elements having their own meaning forming overall for narrative, both verbal or non-verbal. structure can described exposed through decomposition social semiotic interpretation seen relationship it s...

In the following, elementary constituents of models in computational semiotics are outlined. This is done by referring to computer simulations as a framework which neither aims to describe artificial sign systems (as done in computer semiotics), nor to realize semiotic functions in “artificial worlds” (as proposed in “artificial semiosis”). Rather, the framework referred to focuses on precondit...

What does specificity of visual media mean as concerns semiotic theory of signification today? Not much, apparently. Whereas in the text analytic semiotics of the Sixties and Seventies, media specificity was seen as a dominant “code” which therefore was to be given primary focus and which gave rise to specialised semiotics of “Cinema”, “Theatre”, “Architecture”, etc., this seems later to have b...