Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI

Leito, Carla Faria; Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius de

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“…The Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) [12,14,16,18] is a qualitative inspection method grounded in Semiotic Engineering that allows the evaluation of the communicability of a computer system through the analysis of its static, dynamic and meta-linguistic signs. The goal is to identify communication breakdowns that may take place during the user-system interaction and to reconstruct the designers' meta-message conveyed by the user interface.…”

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“…The designer-to-user message is comprised of signs [11,12,16]. A sign is anything that stands for something else, to somebody in some respect or capacity [17].…”

Section: "Here Is My Understanding Of Who You Are What I Have Learnementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Semiotic Engineering classifies the signs in three different types [12,16,18]: static, dynamic and meta-linguistic. Static signs express and mean the system's state.…”

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“…On the other hand, when the user fails to understand the communication intended by the designer, a communication breakdown takes place that may hinder or even preclude the use of the system [11,12]. Semiotic Engineering has two qualitative and interpretive methods to assess the communicability of a user interface [11,12,16]: the Communicability Evaluation Method (CEM) [12,13], which involves user observation, and the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) [12,14,16,18], which involves user interface inspection. While CEM focuses on the reception of the meta-communication message by the users, SIM focuses on its emission by the designer.…”

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Cross-Communicability: Evaluating the Meta-communication of Cross-Platform Applications

Maués

Barbosa

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract. Evaluating cross-platform systems is challenging due to the different constraints and capabilities of each platform. In this paper we extend the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM), a Semiotic Engineering evaluation method, to evaluate cross-platform systems. We introduce the term cross-communicability to denote the quality of the meta-communication of the system as whole, taking into account the user traversal between the different platforms. To assess crosscommunicability, we describe a novel approach to conduct the SIM, which introduces a contrastive analysis of the designer-to-user meta-communication messages of each platform, based on a semiotic framing of design changes initially proposed for End-User Development. The results from an analytical study indicate that this approach is capable of identifying and classifying several potential communication breakdowns particular to cross-platform systems, which in turn can inform the design or redesign of a cross-platform application.

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“…The designer-to-user message is comprised of signs [11,12,16]. A sign is anything that stands for something else, to somebody in some respect or capacity [17].…”

Section: "Here Is My Understanding Of Who You Are What I Have Learnementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Semiotic Engineering classifies the signs in three different types [12,16,18]: static, dynamic and meta-linguistic. Static signs express and mean the system's state.…”

Section: "Here Is My Understanding Of Who You Are What I Have Learnementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: "Here Is My Understanding Of Who You Are What I Have Learnementioning

confidence: 99%

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Cross-Communicability: Evaluating the Meta-communication of Cross-Platform Applications

Maués

Barbosa

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…Para avaliar os princípios de comunicação e colaboração que a introdução do módulo "Atividade Recente" efetiva aos participantes dos cursos, analisando a metacomunicação da interface com os usuários, aplicamos as estratégias da Engenharia Semiótica [De Sousa, 2005], [De Souza and Leitão, 2009], para medir o nível de percepção desta ferramenta quanto ao sincronismo proposto neste trabalho.…”

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Um Esquema de Sincronismo para Ambientes Virtuais de Ensino e Aprendizagem

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Castro

2013

Simpósio Brasileiro De Informática Na Educação

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IntroduçãoAtualmente idealizamos a Web como uma plataforma onipresente de desenvolvimento e disponibilidade de serviços. Entretanto, em algumas regiões isso ainda não é verdade, o que causa um enorme contraste entre aquelas localidades e outras que possuem estrutura adequada para uso da Internet. No topo disso, há domínios onde o acesso aos recursos disponibilizados pela web tem se tornado essencial, caso da Educação a Distância (EAD) que comumente utiliza Ambientes Virtuais de Ensino e Aprendizagem (AVEAs) desenvolvidos segundo a arquitetura cliente-servidor para acesso através da web.O esquema apresentado neste artigo possibilita aos AVEAs acesso a recursos locais quando em situações instáveis de acesso a Internet, e uma vez que a conexão esteja restabelecida, possibilita também a sincronização periódica dos recursos globais. II Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (CBIE 2013) XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE 2013)

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Assessing the Design of Hypermedia Interfaces: Differing Perspectives

Laitano¹

2017

Designing Interactive Hypermedia Systems

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Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI

Cited by 121 publications

References 22 publications

Cross-Communicability: Evaluating the Meta-communication of Cross-Platform Applications

Cross-Communicability: Evaluating the Meta-communication of Cross-Platform Applications

Um Esquema de Sincronismo para Ambientes Virtuais de Ensino e Aprendizagem

Assessing the Design of Hypermedia Interfaces: Differing Perspectives

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