Books about Semiotic Engineering
A new book on cultural dimensions of Semiotic Engineering is due August 31, 2012. Check the Publishers' website for:
A Journey through Culture ... (Springer 2012) |
A Journey Through Cultures: Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems Springer's Human–Computer Interaction Series |
"A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a ‘design for each’ or a ‘design for all’ strategy. A Journey Through Cultures takes a very different approach. Proponents of CVM – the Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors perspective – the authors invite HCI practitioners to think of how to expose and communicate the idea of cultural diversity. A detailed case study is included which assesses the metaphors’ potential in cross-cultural design and evaluation. The results show that cultural viewpoint metaphors have strong epistemic power, leveraged by a combination of theoretic foundations coming from Anthropology, Semiotics and the authors’ own work in HCI and Semiotic Engineering." (Publishers' back cover text)
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 This book is a comprehensive introduction to Semiotic Engineering. Published by The MIT Press in 2005, it is now also available as an Amazon's Kindle Edition About the art on this book's cover |
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This book presents a detailed description and discussion of the Communicability Evaluation Method and the Semiotic Inspection Method, with an extensive Case Study that demonstrates how the methods can be used in technical (professional) and scientific (research) contexts. We recommend it for advanced HCI courses. We recommend it for advanced HCI courses. |
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This book contains the best introduction to Semiotic Engineering, the theory and its methods, available in Portuguese. We recommend it for Graduate and Undergraduate HCI courses. |
