Computer systems are increasingly being used for communication and coordination of work, while object-oriented modelling techniques aim at modelling the problem domain of the computer system. Current techniques have been developed with respect to easy implementation, while we argue that further development of the modelling techniques should also be based on knowledge about human work in organis...

potentiality, Quality is closer to a blend of Firstness and Thirdness, than to pure Firstness. Such a treatment seems to be compatible with Peirce’s categorical scheme, since, as Potter (1997: 94) stresses, the categorical structure which Peirce uses is ‘highly subtle and complex, admitting of various combinations’. For Murphey, there is a transition from the notion of meaning as a qualitative ...

This work introduces a first proposal on how to use semiotics in order to improve software engineering methods, when intelligent autonomous systems are targeted. First we investigate the current flaws in software engineering, concerning intelligent autonomous systems. Then we propose a knowledge taxonomy, based on semiotic ideas, aiming a tool to understand the information domain of intelligent...

The difficulty in reading and interpreting textual information interferes in the quality of the interaction of pre-linguistic deaf in the web. This article aims at determining whether the use of new communication strategies improves interaction of the deaf. The stage of data collection and observation involved the participation of eight volunteers. Two sessions of observation of interactions we...

Human evolution unfolded through a rather distinctive, dynamically constructed ecological niche. The human niche is not only generally terrestrial in habitat, while being flexibly and extensively heterotrophic in food-web connections. It is also defined by semiotically structured and structuring embodied cognitive interfaces, connecting the individual organism with the wider environment. The em...

We introduce the notion of open learner models as artifacts and resources, situated in school level to illustrate a context of multiple user types. We suggest a new direction for research, focussing on open learner models as a facilitator of communication from a semiotic engineering perspective.

This paper introduces new extensions to the semiotic model that allow the model to account for image features that characterize an audio, visual or audio-visual object. The treatment in this paper emphasizes visual content description. The framework and the associated construct of image features characterizing the visual object “binding” to conceptual terms used to describe the visual object is...

The translation of web content into Libras (Lingua Brasileira de Sinais – Brazilian Sign Language), although adequate, cannot always be implemented, due to its high cost. Thus, the present study aims to identify and propose solutions for the potential communication breakdowns in the interaction of bilingual deaf users in corporate systems on the web. The analysis of the interaction took place a...

Collaborative systems are growing more and more popular. However, evaluating this type of systems is still a difficult task. Many evaluation methods have been proposed to deal with this challenge, but most of them are not yet consolidated. Semiotic Engineering is an explanatory theory about HCI that proposes three different methods that can be applied to evaluate collaborative systems: MIS, MAC...

Semiotic Engineering is a semiotic theory of HCI that views humancomputer interaction as a contingent process of designer-to-user metacommunication. The theory currently has two evaluation methods, Communicability Evaluation and Semiotic Inspection. The aim of our research is to do a critical analysis of both methods in order to align them with each other, especially in ontological and epistemi...