A-signifying Semiotics

Experimental Semiotics: A Review

In the last few years a new line of research has appeared in the literature. This line of research, which may be referred to as experimental semiotics (ES; Galantucci, 2009; Galantucci and Garrod, 2010), focuses on the experimental investigation of novel forms of human communication. In this review we will (a) situate ES in its conceptual context, (b) illustrate the main varieties of studies th...

Literary Semiotics A Critical Approach

Instrument Semiotics

In this and the following companion paper, Tearing Interfaces Apart, we shall present a theoretical semiotic analysis of interfaces and demonstrate how this analysis can be coupled to an empirical analysis of a work domain and its changing needs for information. The work domain is maritime maneuvering and navigation. We do this by exploiting two senses of the concept “analysis”. “Analysis” mean...

Emotions: a computational semiotics perspective

Rodrigo Gonçalves [email protected] Ricardo Gudwin [email protected] Fernando Gomide [email protected] Electrical and Computer Engineering School (FEEC), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) CP. 6101 CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil Abstract The discussion about the importance of emotions in the rational behavior of human being is not new. Neither is the discussion...

Experimental Semiotics

In the last few years, researchers have begun to study novel human communication systems in the laboratory (Experimental Semiotics, ES). The first goal of this article is to provide a primer to ES, which we will do by reviewing the experimental paradigms developed by experimental semioticians, as well as the main research themes that have emerged in the discipline. A second goal is to illustrat...