The Semiotic Engineering Of Human Computer Interaction

Author : Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262042207

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The Semiotic Engineering of Human-computer Interaction by Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza Pdf

A theory of HCI that uses concepts from semiotics and computer science to focus on the communication between designers and users during interaction. In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. Semiotics is the study of signs, and the essence of semiotic engineering is the communication between designers and users at interaction time; designers must somehow be present in the interface to tell users how to use the signs that make up a system or program. This approach, which builds on--but goes further than--the currently dominant user-centered approach, allows designers to communicate their overall vision and therefore helps users understand designs--rather than simply which icon to click. According to de Souza's account, both designers and users are interlocutors in an overall communication process that takes place through an interface of words, graphics, and behavior. Designers must tell users what they mean by the artifact they have created, and users must understand and respond to what they are being told. By coupling semiotic theory and engineering, de Souza's approach to HCI design encompasses the principles, the materials, the processes, and the possibilities for producing meaningful interactive computer system discourse and achieves a broader perspective than cognitive, ethnographic, or ergonomic approaches. De Souza begins with a theoretical overview and detailed exposition of the semiotic engineering account of HCI. She then shows how this approach can be applied specifically to HCI evaluation and design of online help systems, customization and end-user programming, and multiuser applications. Finally, she reflects on the potential and opportunities for research in semiotic engineering.

Author : Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa,Karin Breitman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319562919

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Conversations Around Semiotic Engineering by Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa,Karin Breitman Pdf

Demonstrating the influence of Semiotic Engineering in Human-Computer Interaction, this book focuses on the work of one of the pioneers of the field - Clarisse de Souza - and her influence on this broad and wide-ranging area of research. It contains a selection of essays written by those that have worked with her over the years and will encourage readers to extend their reading and research in this area. Clarisse de Souza, widely known as the founder of Semiotic Engineering, will reach her 60th birthday in 2017, and the Semiotic Engineering Research Group that she founded will also celebrate its 20th anniversary. A key figure in HCI, Clarisse argued that human-computer interaction enables computer-mediated communication between the designer and the user at the point of interaction thus enabling and facilitating designers in understanding who their users are, and what their requirements may be. This book brings together prominent researchers who have helped to shape semiotic engineering by their insightful discussions on the theory.

Author : Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza,Carla Faria Leitão
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781598299441

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Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI by Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza,Carla Faria Leitão Pdf

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). It views HCI as computer-mediated communication between designers and users at interaction time. The system speaks for its designers in various types of conversations specified at design time. These conversations communicate the designers' understanding of who the users are, what they know the users want or need to do, in which preferred ways, and why. The designers' message to users includes even the interactive language in which users will have to communicate back with the system in order to achieve their specific goals. Hence, the process is, in fact, one of communication about communication, or metacommunication. Semiotic engineering has two methods to evaluate the quality of metacommunication in HCI: the semiotic inspection method (SIM) and the communicability evaluation method (CEM). Up to now, they have been mainly used and discussed in technical contexts, focusing on how to detect problems and how to improve the metacommunication of specific systems. In this book, Clarisse de Souza and Carla Leitão discuss how SIM and CEM, which are both qualitative methods, can also be used in scientific contexts to generate new knowledge about HCI. The discussion goes into deep considerations about scientific methodology, calling the reader's attention to the essence of qualitative methods in research and the kinds of results they can produce. To illustrate their points, the authors present an extensive case study with a free open-source digital audio editor called Audacity. They show how the results obtained with a triangulation of SIM and CEM point at new research avenues not only for semiotic engineering and HCI but also for other areas of computer science such as software engineering and programming. Table of Contents: Introduction / Essence of Semiotic Engineering / Semiotic Engineering Methods / Case Study with Audacity / Lessons Learned with Semiotic Engineering Methods / The Near Future of Semiotic Engineering

Author : Jan Brejcha
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781498702584

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Cross-Cultural Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design by Jan Brejcha Pdf

This book describes patterns of language and culture in human-computer interaction (HCI). Through numerous examples, it shows why these patterns matter and how to exploit them to design a better user experience (UX) with computer systems. It provides scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of the interaction and communication design for research experts and industry practitioners and covers the latest research in semiotics and cultural studies, bringing a set of tools and methods to benefit the process of designing with the cultural background in mind.

Author : Luiz Ernesto Merkle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computer science
ISBN : OCLC:1071404434

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Disciplinary and Semiotic Relations Across Human-computer Interaction by Luiz Ernesto Merkle Pdf

Author : Peter Bøgh Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521448689

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A Theory of Computer Semiotics by Peter Bøgh Andersen Pdf

Semiotics is the science of signs: graphical, such as pictures; verbal (writing or sounds); or others such as body gestures and clothes. Computer semiotics studies the special nature of computer-based signs and how they function in use. This 1991 book is based on ten years of empirical research on computer usage in work situations and contains material from a course taught by the author. It introduces basic traditional semiotic concepts and adapts them so that they become useful for analysing and designing computer systems in their symbolic context of work. It presents a novel approach to the subject, rich in examples, in that it is both theoretically systematic and practical. The author refers to and reinterprets techniques already used so that readers can deepen their understanding. In addition, it offers new techniques and a consistent perspective on computer systems that is particularly appropriate for new hardware and software (e.g. hypermedia) whose main functions are presentation and communication. This is a highly important work whose influence will be wide and longlasting.

Author : Cecília Baranauskas,Philippe Palanque,Julio Abascal,Simone D. Junqueira Barbosa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540747963

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Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2007 by Cecília Baranauskas,Philippe Palanque,Julio Abascal,Simone D. Junqueira Barbosa Pdf

This book is part of a two-volume work that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2007. It covers social computing, UI prototyping, user centered design methods and techniques, intelligent user interfaces, accessibility, designing for multiples devices, affective computing, 3D interaction and 3D interfaces, as well evaluation methods.

Author : Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza,Renato Fontoura de Gusmão Cerqueira,Luiz Marques Afonso,Rafael Rossi de Mello Brandão,Juliana Soares Jansen Ferreira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319428314

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Software Developers as Users by Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza,Renato Fontoura de Gusmão Cerqueira,Luiz Marques Afonso,Rafael Rossi de Mello Brandão,Juliana Soares Jansen Ferreira Pdf

This book presents the SigniFYI Suite of conceptual and methodological tools, designed to uncover meanings inscribed in software, their origins, intent and consequences to identify and trace correlating patterns; from software design and development to software use and experience. Based on the study of Semiotic Engineering, the book advances the e study of Human-Centered Computing (HCC), inviting professionals, researchers, teachers and students to reflect upon how subjective and cultural values manifest themselves through software models, programs and user interfaces. The authors weave a mesh of technical, theoretical and philosophical considerations of what it means to build and use software, exploring what we (professionals and non-professionals) mean by the pieces of software we design and develop, as well as what pieces of software mean to end-users and others. Explicitly dedicated to software designers, developers and users, Software Developers as Users is a provocative view of socio-technical communication in the digital age.

Author : Julie A. Jacko
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642216015

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Human-Computer Interaction: Design and Development Approaches by Julie A. Jacko Pdf

This four-volume set LNCS 6761-6764 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011, jointly with 8 other thematically similar conferences. The revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The papers of this first volume are organized in topical sections on HCI design, model-based and patterns-based design and development, cognitive, psychological and behavioural issues in HCI, development methods, algorithms, tools and environments, and image processing and retrieval in HCI.

Author : Shaleph O'Neill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848000360

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Interactive Media: The Semiotics of Embodied Interaction by Shaleph O'Neill Pdf

The author discusses the existing theoretical approaches of semiotically informed research in HCI, what is useful and the limitations. He proposes a radical rethink to this approach through a re-evaluation of important semiotic concepts and applied semiotic methods. Using a semiotic model of interaction he explores this concept through several studies that help to develop his argument. He concludes that this semiotics of interaction is more appropriate than other versions because it focuses on the characteristics of interactive media as they are experienced and the way in which users make sense of them rather than thinking about interface design or usability issues.

Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group LLC
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780974309125

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-computer Interaction by William Sims Bainbridge Pdf

Presents a collection of articles on human-computer interaction, covering such topics as applications, methods, hardware, and computers and society.

Author : Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza,Carla Faria Leitão
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021855

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Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI by Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza,Carla Faria Leitão Pdf

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). It views HCI as computer-mediated communication between designers and users at interaction time. The system speaks for its designers in various types of conversations specified at design time. These conversations communicate the designers' understanding of who the users are, what they know the users want or need to do, in which preferred ways, and why. The designers' message to users includes even the interactive language in which users will have to communicate back with the system in order to achieve their specific goals. Hence, the process is, in fact, one of communication about communication, or metacommunication. Semiotic engineering has two methods to evaluate the quality of metacommunication in HCI: the semiotic inspection method (SIM) and the communicability evaluation method (CEM). Up to now, they have been mainly used and discussed in technical contexts, focusing on how to detect problems and how to improve the metacommunication of specific systems. In this book, Clarisse de Souza and Carla Leitão discuss how SIM and CEM, which are both qualitative methods, can also be used in scientific contexts to generate new knowledge about HCI. The discussion goes into deep considerations about scientific methodology, calling the reader's attention to the essence of qualitative methods in research and the kinds of results they can produce. To illustrate their points, the authors present an extensive case study with a free open-source digital audio editor called Audacity. They show how the results obtained with a triangulation of SIM and CEM point at new research avenues not only for semiotic engineering and HCI but also for other areas of computer science such as software engineering and programming. Table of Contents: Introduction / Essence of Semiotic Engineering / Semiotic Engineering Methods / Case Study with Audacity / Lessons Learned with Semiotic Engineering Methods / The Near Future of Semiotic Engineering

Author : Julie A. Jacko,Constantine Stephanidis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780805849301

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Human-Computer Interaction by Julie A. Jacko,Constantine Stephanidis Pdf

This four volume set provides the complete proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction held June, 2003 in Crete, Greece. A total of 2,986 individuals from industry, academia, research institutes, and governmental agencies from 59 countries submitted their work for presentation at the conference. The papers address the latest research and development efforts, as well as highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. Those accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, including the cognitive, social, ergonomic, and health aspects of work with computers. The papers also address major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of diversified application areas, including offices, financial institutions, manufacturing, electronic publishing, construction, health care, and disabled and elderly people.

Author : Kent Norman,Jurek Kirakowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118977279

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The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set by Kent Norman,Jurek Kirakowski Pdf

Once, human-computer interaction was limited to a privileged few. Today, our contact with computing technology is pervasive, ubiquitous, and global. Work and study is computer mediated, domestic and commercial systems are computerized, healthcare is being reinvented, navigation is interactive, and entertainment is computer generated. As technology has grown more powerful, so the field of human-computer interaction has responded with more sophisticated theories and methodologies. Bringing these developments together, The Wiley Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction explores the many and diverse aspects of human-computer interaction while maintaining an overall perspective regarding the value of human experience over technology.

Author : Rémi Bastide,Philippe Palanque,Jörg Roth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540319610

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Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems by Rémi Bastide,Philippe Palanque,Jörg Roth Pdf

As its name suggests, the EHCI-DSVIS conference has been a special event, merging two different, although overlapping, research communities: EHCI (Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction) is a conference organized by the IFIP 2.7/13.4 working group, started in 1974 and held every three years since 1989. The group’s activity is the scientific investigation of the relationships among the human factors in computing and software engineering. DSVIS (Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems) is an annual conference started in 1994, and dedicated to the use of formal methods for the design of interactive systems. Of course these two research domains have a lot in common, and are informed by each other’s results. The year 2004 was a good opportunity to bring closer these two research communities for an event, the 11th edition of DSVIS and the 9th edition of EHCI. EHCI-DSVIS was set up as a working conference bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, specification and verification, and in examining the relationships between software engineering and human-computer interaction. The call for papers attracted a lot of attention, and we received a record number of submissions: out of the 65 submissions, 23 full papers were accepted, which gives an acceptance rate of approximately 34%. Three short papers were also included. The contributions were categorized in 8 chapters: Chapter 1 (Usability and Software Architecture) contains three contributions which advance the state of the art in usability approaches for modern software engineering.