Consciousness is a subjective experience. To science it matters little whether there is an agent behind conscious experience – things like holding a belief, making a decision, remembering a person, attend to an object, act in a situation –; science (in this case neuroscience) is instead concerned with describing what processes in the brain are responsible for that experience. And yet we believe...

What semiotic potential resides in a 3D virtual environment? This paper accounts for some system features of a Norwegian virtual world, Patagonia, which is part of the 3D Render Ware based ActiveWorlds. It is argued that these features constitute a semiotic resource in interplay with language. The paper suggests visual semiotics as an additional framework to discourse studies of computer-mediat...

This paper discusses the use of computer vision for interpreting human gesture. We first present the functional roles of human gesture and observe that in real life, gesture may be enhanced with physical instruments. In Human Computer Interaction, input devices such as the data-glove, are convenient tricks for computer scientists to sense human gesture but are not necessarily ecological instrum...

When designing objects, designers attempt to communicate the purpose and meaning of that object users using various factors such as visual appearance (aesthetic), practical interaction elements (product semantics) meanings beyond product (semiotics). This study sought confirm previous deductively-developed soma-semiotic framework, whose was understand ultimately predict emotional impact differe...

Computationalism should be the view that cognition is computable; therefore, computationalism can be true even if (human) cognition is not the result of computations in the brain. Semiotic systems should be understood as systems that interpret signs; therefore, both humans and computers are semiotic systems. Minds can be considered as virtual machines implemented in certain semiotic systems, pr...

Expressive AI is a hybrid practice, combining artificial intelligence (AI) research and art making, that simultaneously focuses on the negotiation of meaning mediated by an art object and the internal structure of AI systems. These two apparently disparate views are unified through the concept of affordance: negotiation of meaning is conditioned by interpretive affordances while the internal st...

Comprehension of pointing gestures is fundamental to human communication. However, the neural mechanisms that subserve the integration of pointing gestures and speech in visual contexts in comprehension are unclear. Here we present the results of an fMRI study in which participants watched images of an actor pointing at an object while they listened to her referential speech. The use of a misma...

Computationalism should not be the view that (human) cognition is computation; it should be the view that cognition (simpliciter) is computable. It follows that computationalism can be true even if (human) cognition is not the result of computations in the brain. If semiotic systems are systems that interpret signs, then both humans and computers are semiotic systems. Finally, minds can be cons...

This paper presents semiotic engineering – a semiotic theory of HCI. The theory has the advantage to integrate back end and front end design and development perspectives into a single metacommunication process that affects the user’s experience and, ultimately, the success of any system. By means of illustrative examples, we show the kinds of effects that can be achieved with the theory, and di...

This document contains: 1° the complete translation of one paper by Pasteur (see for reference Conant’s Harvard case study on spontaneous generation) 2° the same text underlined and segmented by myself; 3° a rather complete semiotic inventory of the same text; 4° a tentative draft of a paper using this semiotic treatment to answer science studies question (partially published in (51) 1993: « Pa...