Using Semiotic Profiles to Design Graphical User Interfaces for Social Media Data Spaces on Mobile Phone Screens

Abstract

Abstract-Providing an intuitive and user friendly interface is a challenging task. This challenge is even harder when it comes to mobile phones as such devices have limited interaction possibilities and smaller display size. The present work will develop a study about semiotic profiles as a way to improve techniques for designing graphical interfaces using large social media data spaces such as GeoNames, Eventful and DBpedia in the context of mobile phones screens.

Evaluating Web and Mobile User Interfaces With Semiotics: An Empirical Study

“…Finally, this study suggest that determinants related to the syntactic, pragmatic, social, and environment levels of the SIDE framework, which require further investigation to make the SIDE framework more effective in evaluating mobile interfaces. As mentioned in the related work section, although some studies have analyzed mobile interface using semiotics [61], [62], [68], no specific framework or model or heuristics have so far been developed in literature. This means that the findings of this study can serve as a starting point for developing a new (or upgrading the existing) framework aimed at mobile interfaces.…”

“…Despite the widespread adoption and use of mobile devices and tablets, very few studies have so far analyzed mobile interfaces with the use of semiotics, even though signs play a key role in a mobile context. The available studies focus on: adopting semiotic concepts to design a graphical interface for mobile phones [62]; proposing an analytical approach to analyze interface signs (icons) for mobile user interfaces [63]; exploring the semiotic engineering theory in the design of mobile user interfaces to control mobile robots [64]; simplifying the mobile interfaces by increasing the spatial and temporal indexicality from a semiotic perspective [65]; evaluating the multimodal design of a language learning app (Memrise app) through semiotic analysis [66]; analyzing a wearable app based on the SAPAD (Semiotic Approach to Product Architecture Design) model to improve the application's interactions for elderly people [67]; and presenting a semiotic analysis of mobile interfaces, based on Eco's revised KF model [49], to show how mobile signs represent information and an interface functions [68].…”