Semiotic Engineering Research Group

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Semiotic Engineering Research Group

The Semiotic Engineering Research Group (SERG) is an academic center of advanced research involving Semiotics and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Although research in Semiotic Engineering started back in the early nineties, the group as such was created in 1996 by Prof. Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, at the Department of InformaticsPUC-Rio.

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SERG News

Posted on Apr 21, 2012

Luciana Salgado's research on cultural dimensions of Semiotic Engineering will soon be available as a book published by Springer. A Journey through Cultures introduces and discusses Cardoso's Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors for guiding the design of cross-cultural systems. The book is co-authored by Carla Leitão and Clarisse de Souza and is expected to be on shelves by August 2012.

 

Cover of Luciana Salgado's book

 

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Featured Papers and Presentations

Featured in April, 2012

 

Clarisse de Souza's chapter on Semiotics and HCI for the Encyclopedia of HCI has been published. Check it out at:

http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/semiotics_and_human-computer_interaction.html

The chapter includes commentary by Alan Blackwell.

 

A Special Issue of the Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, in memory of Piero Mussio, includes an article on Prof. Mussio's Semiotic Turn. The article was written by Clarisse de Souza upon invitation from Prof. Stefano Levialdi, co-editor of JVLC.

See more at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X11000796

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