This article presents issues of communicability that can impact in the interaction of pre-linguistic bilingual deep deaf user in Web Organizational Information Systems. Thus, we seek to contribute to the development of more accessible systems to this user's profile, seeking its inclusion in the organizational environment. The analysis of interactions occurred in the Intranet of a science and te...

ion and explanation A CR approach to the explanation of concrete phenomena such as semiosis analyses them as conjunctions of structures and causal powers co-producing specific effects. To do this it abstracts these structures, identifying them and considering their respective causal powers and liabilities. Having done this, it then moves back towards the concrete, combining the abstracted const...

In the present talk I intend to discuss the validity of a model (or better, a class of models) of learning and deuterolearning processes in cognitive systems, constructed combining set-theoretical and proof-theoretical concepts. This class of models is based on ideas coming from different disciplines: 1) Gregory Bateson’s systemic-relational theory of learning and change; 2) G ̈odel’s incomplete...

This paper intends to show how a semiotic model akin to a dyadic semiotic can contribute to knowledge representation issues. In particular we hope that it offers a viable alternative to triadic semiotic models usually evoked to build conceptual structures and knowledge representations.

Addressing integrative possibilities between psychology and anthropology, this paper aims to design conceptual linkages between semiotic-cultural constructivist psychology and the anthropological theory of Amerindian perspectivism. From the psychological view, it is the interdependence between the structural and processual dimensions of the personal culture that makes parallels with Amerindian ...

This paper presents a semiotic approach to the phenomenon of appropriation, focusing on the tension between technology design and the users’ practice. On the one hand, we focus on how the technology itself, through its design, guides its users. On the other hand, we investigate how users appropriate technology, developing specific practices to meet their own needs, resisting the guidance offere...