In this paper, we discuss the process of analysis and design of a user interface to support dialogue and negotiation between players of participatory simulations. The underlying context is an interdisciplinary project, named SimParc [8], about participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. This project is inspired by the ComMod MAS/RPG approach [...

Evaluating cross-platform systems is challenging due to the different constraints and capabilities of each platform. In this paper we extend the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM), a Semiotic Engineering evaluation method, to evaluate cross-platform systems. We introduce the term cross-communicability to denote the quality of the meta-communication of the system as whole, taking into account the ...

The paper considers the principles and basic stages of decomposing georeferenced documents oriented to the problems of markup and semantic search. The paper justifies the necessity to develop a multimodal semiotic system and discusses verbal-visual knowledge representation in digital libraries. To represent knowledge, verbal-visual thesaurus is proposed. The thesaurus includes verbal, verbal-vi...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Semiotic approach to forming of Theory of Computer Visualization. Such theory (or rather theories) should be the foundation of design, development, and evaluations of specialized visualization systems. The semiotic analysis of visualization is defined. The paper contains the scheme of the semiotics analysis during designing of visualization systems. T...

Information visualization design is generally ad hoc, using trial and error, and perhaps drawing on experience with prior visualization systems. This paper suggests a di erent approach: general design principles based on a combination of algebraic abstract data type theory, semiotics, and social theory. Major concepts include semiotic spaces to describe systems of related signs, semiotic morphi...

FLOYD MERRELL (b. 16 November 1937). Academic Status: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Mail Address: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, West lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: . Personal Office Tel: (765) 496-2265. Fax: (765) 496-1700. Educational Background: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1972. Research Interests: (1) Spanish an...

Biosemiotics delves into the examination of meaning, communication, and signs within every living microorganism. This research endeavors to interpret Qur'anic passage "wajalna minal maa' kulla syai'in hayyin," which translates "we make water molecules as a source life." Its objective is discern elucidate microbial presence molecule by scrutinizing term الْمَاۤءِ 'water' in surah al-Anbiya' verse 30...

Hypertext theory makes use of the same set of terms that have been explored in decades of semiotic investigation, such as sign, text, communication, code, metaphor, paradigm, syntax, etc. Building on approaches that have succeeded in applying semiotic principles and methodology to computer science, such as computer semiotics, computational semiotics, and semiotic interface engineering, this dis...

In this article I trace the historical development of Peirce’s semiotic rhetoric from its early appearance as a sub-discipline of symbolistic to its mature incarnation as one of the three main branches of the science of semiotic, and argue that this change in status is a symptom of Peirce’s broadening semiotic interest. The article shows how the evolution of Peirce’s theory of signs is linked t...

In this paper we discuss the semiotic functions of the psychological borders that structure the flow of narrative processes. Each narration is always a contextual, situated and contingent process of sensemaking, made possible by the creation of borders, such as dynamic semiotic devices that are capable of connecting the past and the future, the inside and the outside, and the me with the non-me...