Semiotic engineering methods for scientific research in HCI

• Main Author: De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius.
• Other Authors: Leitão, Carla Faria.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics (Online), # 2.
• Subjects: Human-computer interaction.; Semiotics.
• Online Access: Abstract with links to full text

Semiotic engineering was originally proposed as a semiotic approach to designing user interface languages. Over the years, with research done at the Department of Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, it evolved into a semiotic theory of human-computer interaction (HCI...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Essence of semiotic engineering
• Brief historical perspective
• Metacommunication perspective
• Semiotic engineering methods
• Semiotic inspection method
• Preparation
• Analysis of metalinguistic signs
• Analysis of static signs
• Analysis of dynamic signs
• Comparison of segmented metacommunication messages
• Final evaluation of system's communicability
• Communicability evaluation method
• Preparation
• Application
• Tagging
• Interpretation
• Semiotic profiling
• Case study with audacity
• A semiotic inspection of audacity
• Preparation for the inspection
• Analysis of metalinguistic signs
• Analysis of static signs
• Analysis of dynamic signs
• Collating and comparing analyses
• The quality of metacommunication in audacity
• A communicability evaluation of audacity
• The evaluation setting
• Tagging and interpretation
• Semiotic profiling
• Findings and conclusions
• Internal articulation
• Cross-articulation
• External articulation
• Lessons learned with semiotic engineering methods
• The near future of semiotic engineering
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• References.