cucinaremale (“badcooking” or “cookingbadly”) is an Italian Facebook group created in 2014 which now (February 2020) counts more than 126,000 members. It was conceived to let members post their everyday culinary disasters and amusingly show solidarity with each other, while struggling a cruel world where — as the official description suggests everybody seems have become professional cook, capab...

One of the features present time is increased interest young people in tattoos on body. Tattoo a cultural phenomenon that has long history since its inception.
 The problem research lies fact at youth subculture considered as rich source innovations and discoveries art, fashion, forms leisure; variant mass culture, product media industry; form creative activity who do not find acceptance s...

This paper aims to explore the linguistic and visual choices used by writer illustrator in order create meaning fantasy picturebook One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Blue Dads (1994), written Johnny Valentine illustrated Melody Sarecky, which features a gay family. The analytical tools employed this study deconstruct meanings said are Kress van Leeuwen’s (2006) Visual Social Semiotics Painter et al.’s (...

The design process, which starts with identifying the problem in studies, is completed by conveying message of creative visual solution to target audience. images used for audience are carefully selected team. Images have a universal language and transmitted faster than written texts. layers meaning as cultural indicators their own time. For this reason, most frequently method examining interpr...

In order to explore the usability and ease of use of icon design, the icon design method based on the combination of semiotics and user cognitive psychology is raised. Based on the principle of matching the icon design knowledge and user knowledge, the icon design process is analyzed from four dimensions, namely the semantic expression of elements, the structure of elements, the interface and c...

Semiotics has been used as a theoretical basis for systematising the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of human-computer interaction. This paper focuses on the descriptive qualities of semiotics which are useful for understanding the user perspective of computer systems. The end goal is to assess the application of such semiotic description in interface design. An experiment is presented in...

The discovery of contextually relevant web services is crucial to business organisations. Pragmatics (in terms of communication acts) and semiotics (the understanding of signs), intersect at an important point in relation to textual entities. The intersection of pragmatics and semiotics provides the fabric essential to model the interaction between humans and norm-based agents by moving beyond ...

Objective: Evaluate the educational software application Semiotics and semiology of the preterm newborn. Methods: The layout and content evaluation of the application was performed with the participation of three information technology specialists, two audiovisual specialists and eleven nurses (professors and healthcare nurses). Results: Most of the items evaluated in the application received g...