Semiotics is considered fundamental to an understanding of human±computer interaction, and of all computer artifacts. Informatics should therefore be viewed as technical semiotics (or semiotics engineering). In particular, interaction between human and computer is characterized by features of communication, a sort of communication, however, that lacks decisive communicative features. It must be...

Due to the increasing sophistication of the Internet, the role of computers as mediators becomes more apparent through their interfaces. Despite being a symbolic machine, only in the last decade Semiotics has attracted the attention of researchers in studying interfaces and human-computer interaction. This paper summarises some of the main contributions in the field of Semiotics and Interfaces,...

It is not only because of a certain eclecticism in mathematics education research that semiotic ideas have begun to take root there: it is also because of the dawning recognition that key areas of interest in mathematics education genuinely have a semiotic nature. For this, one need only point to research focused on meaning, communication, language, and culture (e.g., Presmeg, 1997; Ernest,1997...

In this paper, we present Semionics, a contribution to the field of Computational Semiotics, and propose its use in order to build and simulate models of organizations. Computational Semiotics refers to a research area where semiotic techniques are used in order to synthesize semiotic processes in computers and computer-based applications. Semionics is the main technology developed by our resea...

In this paper, we discuss the value of semiotics to inquire tangible user interfaces (TUI) in humancomputer interaction (HCI). Drawing on Peirce’s three types of representation – icon, index, and symbol (Peirce, Houser, & Kloesel, 1998) – we analyze signification processes in the design of tangible UIs. As a case study, we draw on several prototypical interfaces and analyze their semiotic struc...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the theoretical foundations of an approach for intelligent systems development. Derived from semiotics, a classic discipline in human sciences, the theory developed provides a mathematical framework for the concept of knowledge and for knowledge processing. As a result, a new perspective to study and to develop intelligent systems emerges. A taxonomy of ele...

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 The...

The integration of knowledge extracted from different models described by domain experts or from models generated by machine learning algorithms is strongly conditioned by the lack of an appropriated framework to specify and integrate structures, learning processes, data transformations and data models or data rules. In this work we extended algebraic specification methods to be used in this ty...

This paper introduces a Semiotic Appoach to Hypertext Theory. Having been applied to Informatics only in recent years, Semiotics promises a broader understanding of Hypertext as a structure of signs. The rapid visualization of the World Wide Web seems to justify this approach. Using the methodology of applied Semiotics and Graph Theory, the author analyses the challenges and restrictions of Hyp...

This talk presents implications from Experimental Semiotics for dialogue systems. Experimental Semiotics investigates human communication by forcing participants to create new communication systems, or adapt existing systems in new ways to achieve joint goals. The key results in this field show the importance of interaction, indirect representation, iconicity, and systematicity in the represent...