End-user (further) development: A case for negotiated semiotic engineering
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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 Theoretical Computer Science. In HCI, specifically, the most popular, although often superficial and restricted, use of Semiotics has been the famous classification of signs into icons, indices and symbols proposed by Peirce. However, just as Cognitive Psychology has the power to provide the foundations of full-fledged theories of HCI, so does Semiotics. Semiotic Engineering is the first proposed theoretical account of HCI in general based on semiotic theories (mainly Eco’s and Peirce’s).
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