Semiotic Engineering Research Group

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.

A Journey Through Cultures: Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems

"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)

Luciana Salgado, Carla Leitão and Clarisse de Souza are members of SERG, the Semiotic Engineering Research Group at the Departamento de Informática of Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio).

Posted on Jan 11, 2012

- Para os que lêem português, sugerimos a leitura do Capítulo Interação em Sistemas Colaborativos, do livro Sistemas Colaborativos (Mariano Pimentel & Hugo Fuks, Eds. - Elsevier-Campus/SBC, 2011). A autora, Raquel Prates, apresenta uma visão de interação pautada em Engenharia Semiótica e metacomunicação.

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Posted on Jan 1st, 2012

New publications by SERG members on their way. Watch for the following:

* Clarisse de Souza, The semiotic turn, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Available online 3 December 2011, ISSN 1045-926X, 10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.11.008. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X11000796)

* Luciana Salgado, Carla Leitão and Clarisse de Souza are  preparing a book about Salgado's Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors for Springer's HCI Series.

* Clarisse de Souza is the author of a chapter on Semiotics and HCI, written for The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction.

Posted on Oct 14th, 2011

Alexander Repenning, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and creator of AgentSheets, is visiting SERG and ADDLabs from Oct 18-21. The two Brazilian labs are partners of AgentSheets and the  Center for Lifelong Learning & Design (L3D) in the Scalable Game Design Brasil Project.

Alex will be giving a talk at PUC Rio on Oct 20th, at 11 AM (Location: RDC 511, room for 45 people).

Posted on September 1^st, 2011

Para os que lêem Português, sugerimos duas monografias da série "MCC" do Departamento de Informática da PUC-Rio. Uma reporta uma experiência detalhada de engenharia semiótica da metacomunicação (processo de design da mensagem do designer) em aplicação demonstrativa de aplicação de apoio para o ensino de "redes de sensores sem fio".

Branco, A. ; Motta, J.A.M.; de Souza, C.S. (2011) Utilizando Engenharia Semiótica na Construção de uma Ferramenta de Simulação para RSSF. MCC 06/11. C.J.P. Lucena (Ed.) Monografias em Ciência da Computação. Departamento de Informática. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. 20 p. ( Agosto de 2011)  ISSN: 0103-9741

ftp://ftp.inf.puc-rio.br/pub/docs/techreports/11_06_branco.pdf

A outra reporta um estudo sobre como a mensagem de metacomunicação do AgentSheets© pode ser recebida por usuários novatos, no que tange ao conceito de agentes.

Ferreira, J.J ; de Souza, C.S. (2011) Agentes no AgentSheets: Como o AgentSheets comunica o conceito de agentes. MCC 09/11. C.J.P. Lucena (Ed.) Monografias em Ciência da Computação. Departamento de Informática. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. 19 p. ( Agosto de 2011)  ISSN: 0103-9741

ftp://ftp.inf.puc-rio.br/pub/docs/techreports/11_09_ferreira.pdf

 

Posted on July 21st, 2011

Five full papers by SERG Members and Alumni in the scientific program of IHC+CLIHC'2011, the 10th Brazilian HCI Conference (IHC'2011) held jointly with the 5th Latin-American HCI Conference (CLIHC'2011) in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco.

Posted on July 5th, 2011

On June 28th the Scalable Game Design Brasil Project (Clique para a Computação!)  was officially launched by the president of Universidade Federal Fluminens.e (UFF), Prof Roberto Sales, at COLUNI - Colégio Universitário Geral Reis, Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Besides the president of UFF, the Associate Dean of the Science & Technology Center of PUC-Rio, Prof Luiz Silva Mello, the Director of COLUNI, Prof Iduína Chaves, students, parents, researchers and other invitees attended the ceremony. See the pictures online at PICASA. See also Prof Cristina Garcia's interview for the O Fluminense (local newspaper, in Portuguese).

Scalable Game Design Brasil is an international collaboration project headed by Prof Alex Repenning (L3D Colorado University, Boulder and AgentSheets), Prof Ana Cristina Garcia (ADDLabs, UFF) and Prof Clarisse de Souza (SERG, PUC-Rio).

Updates on July 5th, 2011

This year, the 10th Brazilian HCI Conference (IHC'2011) will be held jointly with the 5th Latin-American HCI Conference (CLIHC'2011) in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco. Visit the conference website for more information.

Posted on May 2nd, 2011

Along with ADDLabs, SERG pioneers a Scalable Game Design Project in Brazil. The project started in 2010, in partnership with COLUNI - Colégio Universitário Geral Reis, Universidade Federal Fluminense. We carried out a short-term extra-class program for interested 9th-graders introducing Computational Thinking with AgentSheets. The results of this initiative are reported in a paper to be presented at IS-EUD'2011 in Italy.

The principal investigators in this project are: Alexander Reppening (Computer Science Department, Colorado University at Boulder + AgentSheets), Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia (Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense + ADDLabs) and Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza (Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio + SERG).

Posted on Apr 6, 2011

Luciana Salgado presented her PhD thesis on April 4th, 2011. The work was approved and recommended by the following examiners:

• Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia (UFF)
• Maria Elizabeth Sucupira Furtado (Unifor)
• Fernanda Araújo Baião Amorim (Unirio)
• Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa (PUC-Rio)
• Alberto Barbosa Raposo (PUC-Rio)

Posted on Apr 6, 2011

Ingrid Monteiro presented her MSc dissertation on Marchl 16th, 2011. The work was approved and recommended by the following examiners:

• Simone Bacellar Leal Ferreira (Unirio)
• Alberto Barbosa Raposo (PUC-Rio)