An analysis of deictic signs in computer interfaces: contributions to the Semiotic Inspection Method

Interacting with Digital Memorials in a Cemetery: Insights from an Immersive Practice

“…Obituaries in the application mainly serve the purpose of locating the remains of the deceased in the physical world. Therefore, they can be considered deictic signs [11], similarly to the link to the Google Maps image of the location of the grave (at the bottom of the interface). By returning to the main page of de Santos Marquise's memorial profile and clicking on the "messages" button, the user is led to a page where there are six messages -four of which were written by the participants of this research during the immersive practice.…”

“…The answers from the surveys were also contrasted with a semiotic analysis of the application Memoriall considering the sign categories proposed by Peirce [21] and adopted to describe computer interfaces by de Souza et al [8] and Lopes et al [11], among other practitioners of Semiotic Engineering. However, as the main objective of the study was not the reconstruction of the designer's metamessages, we did not follow a specific semiotic method; instead, we read the screens from Memoriall scaffolded by the sign categories adopted in Semiotic Engineering to describe computer interfaces.…”