There are two models based on Semiotic Engineering aimed to assist designers in modeling the interface: Manas and MoLIC. This work shows the result of the application of these models in two collaborative systems and contrasts the results between models and within each model, assessing which aspects were represented by each model and in what level of abstraction, as well as the possibility of a ...

In this paper we are trying to clarify, with the aid of some semiotic notions, the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis model” and “design model” in sofware engineering. In our experience, these confusions are the root of some difficulties that practitioners encounter when doing modeling, and sometimes lead to bad engineering practices. When software engineers say “analysi...

Hypertext theory makes use of the same set of terms that have been explored in decades of semiotic investigation, such as sign, text, communication, code, metaphor, paradigm, syntax, etc. Building on approaches that have succeeded in applying semiotic principles and methodology to computer science, such as computer semiotics, computational semiotics, and semiotic interface engineering, this dis...

This paper aims to reflect on the role of Culture of Participation in fostering an Ethics of Design, as a means of true innovation in contemporary society. Participation often stands on commonalities, empathy and the desire to share our own beliefs and world views. The design of artifacts has as its first, though implicit purpose, to convey a message. Our economy relies even more on knowledge-i...

The central thesis of this paper is that Rasmussen framed his approach to Cognitive Systems Engineering from the perspective of a Triadic Semiotic Model. This frame became the context for integrating multiple intellectual threads including Control Theory, Information Theory, Ecological Psychology, and Gestalt Psychology into a coherent theoretical framework. The case is made that the triadic se...

An analysis of two-party integrative negotiation reveals the potential of this type of bargaining for being interpreted as a conceptualization process. Past research on a semiotic model of human processing shows the possibility of a definition of a uniform representation of knowledge. In this paper we suggest that by combining the above results integrative negotiation can be positioned as an ab...

Information can be interpreted as in-formation, which refers to the potential of the form for a mediation of meaning. In this paper we focus on reasoning information and consider the question how form involved in reasoning can be used for an analysis of accounting narratives in corporate disclosures. An evaluation of experimental results is included.

This article takes semiotic as a practical approach toward the study of advertising. An attempt has been made in this research to investigate the ideology or hidden languages in two 'OMEGA' watch ads which selected from time magazine issued 2002. Advertisers believe that a very crucial way to a successful advertisement is the use of photographic style. It may play a major role in catching the a...

The work on Conceptual Modelling performed by our group at PUCRio is surveyed, covering four mutually dependent research topics. Regarding databases as a component of information systems, we extended the scope of the Entity-Relationship model, so as to encompass facts, events and agents in a three-schemata specification method employing a logic programming formalism. Next we proceeded to render...