Organisational Semiotics (OS) aims to provide new methodologies, techniques and tools to the development of information systems and organisations by applying semiotic theories and studies, therefore offering a new perspective on the field, which incorporates technical and social aspects. In order to apply semiotics to Information Systems (IS) and Information technology (IT) different approaches...

Software Evolution is a fact in industrial life. More than that, maintenance is one of the most expensive phases on software life cycle. Additionally, social and organizational aspects are increasingly gaining greater importance for information systems development. In this context, Organizational Semiotics has been considered a promising tool, providing the framework MEASUR for requirements gat...

Ontology Charting (OC) is an Organisational Semiotics (OS) technique for the representation of requirements for information systems and organisations, based on semiotic theories and studies, incorporating technical and social aspects. The application of semiotics to the design of Information Systems (IS) competes with other methods and this paper presents a comparative analysis of these methods...

The current paper explores the possibilities of an improvement of the interaction of an ACT-R actor with its environment including other actors. This is done in the framework of a project aiming at a multi-actor simulation environment based on the ACT-R architecture. Two objections against traditional cognitive architectures like Soar and ACT-R, namely the lack of physical grounding and the lac...

In this paper we present a collaborative work between computer and social scientists resulting in the development of annotation software for conducting research and analysis in social semiotics in both multimodal and linguistic aspects. The paper describes the proposed software and discusses how this tool can contribute for development of social semiotic the-

Gunther Kress’s multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm linguistics, which originally framed his work, reached out to inform other fields, such as those education, museum studies, well humanities sciences more broadly. This article brings together our insights in relation a concept from theory, that design. Drawing research, we reflect on conceptualisat...

Active perspective-taking (PT) has been argued to improve performance on social coordination tasks (Galinsky, Wang, & Ku, 2005). In most such tasks individuals are free to use any natural form of communication, making it difficult to differentiate between the effects of the empathic and cognitive aspects of PT. The Experimental Semiotics research paradigm (Galantucci & Garrod, 2011) provides so...