Título: Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI: Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
Autor: Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Sinopse: 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI: Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics”, de Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, publicado pela editora Morgan & Claypool Publishers, em 2009 e com 122 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Páginas: 122
Ano: 2009
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1598299441
ISBN13: 9781598299441
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Os livros da editora Morgan & Claypool Publishers oferecem uma experiência de leitura focada em temas técnicos e científicos, com ênfase em explicações detalhadas e rigorosas. O catálogo privilegia obras que abordam desde fundamentos matemáticos e físicos até aplicações práticas em tecnologia e computação, sempre com linguagem clara e didática, adequada a estudantes avançados e profissionais. A variedade inclui textos que vão do tratamento teórico de conceitos complexos, como integrais e sistemas multiagentes, até análises aplicadas em redes de datacenters e eletrônica computacional. O tom é predominantemente informativo e analítico, com ritmo que equilibra exposição conceitual e exemplos práticos, o que favorece o aprendizado aprofundado e o uso como referência técnica.
