Exploring the role of the semiotic engineering in interaction co-design

  • Authors:
  • Hanna-Liisa Pender;David Lamas

  • Affiliations:
  • Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia;Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 Chilean Conference on Human - Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper explores the use of semiotic engineering in interaction design processes. The role of semiotics in HCI has been extensively explored and evaluation methods have been developed to facilitate the pragmatic application of semiotics to human-computer interaction. These methods can be applied in both formative and summative evaluation strategies and, especially when used in for formative evaluation purposes, they adequately feed back into the design process. However, with the growing emphasis on co-design, we see the need of supporting the design process with a frame of reference informed by the semiotic principles, thus shifting the contribution of semiotics to interaction design i.e. from an evaluation standpoint to a design decision role. We build upon a case study to explore the interplay between the semiotic inspection method and the interaction design process laying the ground for future work in this direction.