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...

This paper presents a formalisation of Peirce’s notion of ‘sign’ using a triadic relation with a functional dependency. The three sign components are then modelled as concepts in lattices which are connected via a semiotic mapping. We call the study of relationships relating to semiotic systems modelled in this manner a semiotic-conceptual analysis. It is argued that semiotic-conceptual analyse...

This paper is an effort to discuss the concept of glocalization from a semiotic point of view. In order to carry out a semiotic analysis of globalization or glocalization, first globalization needs to be defined from a semiotic perspective. Therefore, first an explanation of globalization and glocalization in semiotic terms is provided. Some believe the ongoing process in the world cannot be be...

This chapter presents a Modeling Language for Interaction as Conversation, named MoLIC, which is grounded in semiotic engineering. We will explore several alternative design solutions to illustrate the use of the language in diverse scenarios.

Background: Empathy in the context of patient care is defined as a predominantly cognitive attribute that involves an understanding of the patient's experiences, concerns, and perspectives, combined with a capacity to communicate this understanding and an intention to help. In medical education, it is recognized that empathy can be improved by interventional approaches. In this sense, a semioti...

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...

To design interfaces, researchers in HCI have often set up ethnographic and ethnomethodological analysis of face-to-face situations that developers tried to emulate in on-line platform. Nonetheless, the observation of a group of designers producing an e-learning platform shows that this painting from nature/ after nature methodology is completed by a study of already mediated forms of interacti...

In this paper we discuss a set of conceptual issues regarding the synthesis of semiotic processes within artificial systems, and its technological offspring, the semionic networks. We start by putting in context what is this thing semiotic synthesis, and how and why it differs from semiotic analysis. We follow proposing the concept of a "semion", as both an elementary entity with semiotic proce...

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...

Online help systems are typically used as a last resource in interactive breakdown situations. In this paper, we present a method for building online help based on design models according to a semiotic engineering approach. We show the benefits of having designers explicitly communicate their design vision to users, and we also point at the need to foster a new culture for online help. We show ...