A man in a hut high above the North Wales coast points his telescope towards a similar hut 15 km to the west. He suddenly sees an array of shapes being hoisted up a mast above the hut. He notes the shapes and the angles of their display and creates the same array on the mast above his hut. And 15 km to the east someone is carefully watching and will repeat the display. This is the 1820s and the...

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the present article intends to study badr shakir al sayyab poetries in descriptive – analytical method by place semiotics which is paid attention by linguists. the outcome is that the study of place semiotics assists us to find the place beauties in sayyab poetries and discover the hidden treasures inside his poetry by the cities and villages he met his beloved. this article has been done based...

Semiotics is considered fundamental to an understanding of human±computer interaction, and of all computer artifacts. Informatics should therefore be viewed as technical semiotics (or semiotics engineering). In particular, interaction between human and computer is characterized by features of communication, a sort of communication, however, that lacks decisive communicative features. It must be...

Due to the increasing sophistication of the Internet, the role of computers as mediators becomes more apparent through their interfaces. Despite being a symbolic machine, only in the last decade Semiotics has attracted the attention of researchers in studying interfaces and human-computer interaction. This paper summarises some of the main contributions in the field of Semiotics and Interfaces,...

It is not only because of a certain eclecticism in mathematics education research that semiotic ideas have begun to take root there: it is also because of the dawning recognition that key areas of interest in mathematics education genuinely have a semiotic nature. For this, one need only point to research focused on meaning, communication, language, and culture (e.g., Presmeg, 1997; Ernest,1997...

In this paper, we present Semionics, a contribution to the field of Computational Semiotics, and propose its use in order to build and simulate models of organizations. Computational Semiotics refers to a research area where semiotic techniques are used in order to synthesize semiotic processes in computers and computer-based applications. Semionics is the main technology developed by our resea...

In this paper, we discuss the value of semiotics to inquire tangible user interfaces (TUI) in humancomputer interaction (HCI). Drawing on Peirce’s three types of representation – icon, index, and symbol (Peirce, Houser, & Kloesel, 1998) – we analyze signification processes in the design of tangible UIs. As a case study, we draw on several prototypical interfaces and analyze their semiotic struc...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the theoretical foundations of an approach for intelligent systems development. Derived from semiotics, a classic discipline in human sciences, the theory developed provides a mathematical framework for the concept of knowledge and for knowledge processing. As a result, a new perspective to study and to develop intelligent systems emerges. A taxonomy of ele...

Semiotic engineering Semiotics is a discipline devoted to studying signs and signification, which includes processes of representation, interpretation, sense making, and – for a number of semioticians – communication. Its object of investigation is thus strongly connected with that of various subareas of Computer Science such as: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and even The...