This paper presents an assessment of the Semiotic Inspection Method aimed at understanding its costs, benefits, advantages and disadvantages from the evaluators’ perspective. We applied a questionnaire to novice evaluators and interviewed the authors of the method (representing the experts’ evaluators). An analysis of the responses shows interesting insights and characteristics of the method.

The objective of this article is to present a semiotic analysis of void— which in this article is the spacio-temporal empty space existing in any representation—in order to consider the representation of quality and to show how this is essential in human representation yet difficult to process computationally. First, a summary of reference to void is presented through a comparison between Weste...

3 "Humans are no longer the only and lonely ones that are capable of, and to some degree dependant on, the interpretation of signs." Frieder Nake

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...