The semiotic approach to information systems development has proved over the years as a reliable framework for analyses, and it has been mainly focused on the development of organizational information systems. However, the usefulness of the approach extends beyond the organizational context to other areas of systems development. This paper presents a semiotic analysis of persuasive technologies...

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...

We might visualize a semiotic system that depended, in the absence of the power of speech,, upon the ~pperception by the hu.m,an participants o-f contextually defined logical relations among themselves in space. Let us say: the relative position of each participant to another -in a gathering, and to items in· a fixed environment. The 'elements' of the semiotic would be stated by their existenti...

An original approach to modelling internal structure of artificial cognitive agents and the phenomenon of language grounding is presented. The accepted model for the internal cognitive space reflects basic structural properties of human cognition and assumes the partition of cognitive phenomena into conscious and 'non-conscious'. The language is treated as a set of semiotic symbols and is used ...

The desideratum for the concept of a semiotic web is proposed. It combines both the recent semantic web and the pragmatic web initiatives but surpasses them in being faithful to Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic approach to inquiry. I will address some conceptual shortcomings of the semantic and pragmatic web proposals, and suggest that in a semiotic web, one can to operationalise its basic ideas i...

This document describes the working environment developed by ESCoM laboratory (Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Médias, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) during the ASA-SHS project (Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop for Human and Social Sciences). ASA-SHS is a R&D project financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR, Programme Blanc 2008) and targets to develop strategies of ...

Any description of the emergence and evolution of different types of meaning processes (semiosis, sensu C.S.Peirce) in living systems must be supported by a theoretical framework which makes it possible to understand the nature and dynamics of such processes. Here we propose that the emergence of semiosis of different kinds can be understood as resulting from fundamental interactions in a triad...

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...

We provide a conceptual analysis of ideas and principles from the systems theory discourse which underlie Pattee's semantic or semiotic closure, which is itself foundational for a school of theoretical biology derived from systems theory and cybernetics, and is now being related to biological semiotics and explicated in the relational biological school of Rashevsky and Rosen. Atomic control sys...

Aesthetic experience, as a cognitive activity is a fundamental part of the interaction process in which an agent attempts to interpret his/her environment in order to support the fundamental process of decision making. Proposing a four-level interactive model, we underline and indicate the functions that provide the operations of aesthetic experience and, by extension, of aesthetic judgment. Pa...