Advance Program - Workshop

6. Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Organizers
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Simone D. J. Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Ernest A. Edmonds, LoughBorough University, UK
Raquel O. Prates, UERJ/PUC-Rio, Brazil

Semiotics is the discipline that studies signs, communication, and signification systems and the cultural processes involved in them. Our goal is to bring together researchers/ practitioners of HCI and Semiotics to discuss how the fields can provide a new interdisciplinary research agenda in HCI.

The workshop will consider the following:

• Does Semiotics provide HCI with new insights?
• How can Semiotics contribute to delineate the resourceful communicative mechanisms that will help users grasp the intended meanings conveyed by HCI designers through the interface of software applications in general?
• How can Semiotic approaches complement or contribute to user-centered approaches by tackling specifically with the communicative aspects of interaction?

Send a 2-4 page position paper to the organizers. Participants will be selected based on their position paper and the diversity of the approaches and of the participants. Limited to 15 participants.

Accepted position papers will be placed on a web site for participants to read prior to the workshop, and be prepared to discuss their positions. Position papers should be sent electronically (in HTML or Microsoft Word format) to Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza at clarisse@inf.puc-rio.br. See: http://peirce.inf.puc-rio.br/chi2000ws6/

Contact
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Pontificia Universidade Catolica
do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
R. Marques de Sao Vicente, 225
Gavea - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
Brazil 22453-900
Tel: +55+21+274-2731, ext. 4344
Fax: +55+21+511-5645
Email: clarisse@inf.puc-rio.br