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Raquel Oliveira Prates - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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IHC - Intermediated Semiotic Inspection Method
Proceedings of the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems - IHC 2018, 2018Co-Authors: Erica Rodrigues De Oliveira, Raquel Oliveira PratesAbstract:Semiotic Engineering is a consolidated HCI theory that perceives an interactive system's interface as a designer-to-user communication. In this context, the relevant quality property to be considered is communicability. Currently, there are two consolidated Methods to evaluate the communicability of a system, Communicability Evaluation Method (CEM) and Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM). In this work, our purpose is to formally present the Intermediate Semiotic Inspection Method - ISIM, as a Method to evaluate communicability. The ISIM was proposed to allow for the communicability evaluation from the perspective of indirect users. It was described within the context of educational systems, in a case study to analyze the professor's perspective on systems aimed at their students. However, ISIM has been more broadly used in different contexts, and with different participants. In this article our goal is to formally present ISIM, describing the necessary steps to its application. We also present an analysis of the studies that have applied the Method. Based on our analysis we discuss how consolidated the ISIM is, and the different aspects it can evaluate in comparison to SIM and CEM.
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IHC - Assessing the semiotic Inspection Method: the evaluators' perspective
2012Co-Authors: Soraia De S. Reis, Raquel Oliveira PratesAbstract:This paper presents an assessment of the Semiotic Inspection Method aimed at understanding its costs, benefits, advantages and disadvantages from the evaluators' perspective. We applied a questionnaire to novice evaluators and interviewed the authors of the Method (representing the experts' evaluators). An analysis of the responses shows interesting insights and characteristics of the Method.
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semiotic Inspection Method in the context of educational simulation games
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2010Co-Authors: Daniela C C Peixoto, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Rodolfo F ResendeAbstract:Software process simulation is increasingly being used as an approach for analyzing complex business, for supporting management planning, for helping with software process training and learning and for supporting the software process improvement. In addition to providing to users a simulation tool that supports all these aspects, it is also important to consider some other requirements during the tool's design, such as efficient and effective communication of the designer's message to the user. In this way, we show how semiotic concepts can be used in the analysis and generation of knowledge through the application of the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM), a semiotic engineering evaluation Method. In this paper we present a scientific application of SIM to a Software Engineering simulation game focusing the analysis on feedback aspects and issues. The results go beyond the system analyzed and point to considerations regarding simulation games used in educational contexts.
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Investigating the Applicability of the Semiotic Inspection Method to Collaborative Systems
2009 Simposio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, 2009Co-Authors: Bernardo A. M. Mattos, R.l. Santos, Raquel Oliveira PratesAbstract:Evaluating collaborative systems is still an openissue being investigated by the HCI and CSCW communities.One of the various relevant aspects to be considered in theevaluation is the quality of the interaction. In that direction there have been proposed Methods that adapt or extend consolidated single-user usability evaluation Methods. However, these Methods have not yet been widely used and consolidated. In this paper we investigate the applicability of an Inspection Method based on the Semiotic Engineering theory for HCI – the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) – to collaborative systems. One of the motivations of this investigation is that, in theory the Method does not require adaptations to be applied to collaborative systems. The results confirm that the Method can be directly applied to collaborative systems, identifying relevant interactionproblems.
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the semiotic Inspection Method
Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006Co-Authors: Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Carla Faria Leitao, Elton Jose Da SilvaAbstract:This paper describes semiotic Inspection, a semiotic engineering evaluation Method. It briefly identifies the essence of theory-based evaluation Methods in HCI. Then it provides a detailed description and illustration of this Method, which is based on a semiotic theory of HCI. It discusses its theoretical stance in semiotic engineering compared to the communicability evaluation Method, as well as the perceived advantages and disadvantages of semiotic Inspection. Finally, it points at the next steps in the semiotic Inspection research agenda.
Elton Jose Da Silva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the semiotic Inspection Method
Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006Co-Authors: Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Carla Faria Leitao, Elton Jose Da SilvaAbstract:This paper describes semiotic Inspection, a semiotic engineering evaluation Method. It briefly identifies the essence of theory-based evaluation Methods in HCI. Then it provides a detailed description and illustration of this Method, which is based on a semiotic theory of HCI. It discusses its theoretical stance in semiotic engineering compared to the communicability evaluation Method, as well as the perceived advantages and disadvantages of semiotic Inspection. Finally, it points at the next steps in the semiotic Inspection research agenda.
Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the semiotic Inspection Method
Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006Co-Authors: Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Carla Faria Leitao, Elton Jose Da SilvaAbstract:This paper describes semiotic Inspection, a semiotic engineering evaluation Method. It briefly identifies the essence of theory-based evaluation Methods in HCI. Then it provides a detailed description and illustration of this Method, which is based on a semiotic theory of HCI. It discusses its theoretical stance in semiotic engineering compared to the communicability evaluation Method, as well as the perceived advantages and disadvantages of semiotic Inspection. Finally, it points at the next steps in the semiotic Inspection research agenda.
Kasper Hornbaek - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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must evaluation Methods be about usability devising and assessing the utility Inspection Method
Behaviour & Information Technology, 2014Co-Authors: Guðrun Hulda Jonsdottir Johannessen, Kasper HornbaekAbstract:Whereas research in usability evaluation abounds, few evaluation approaches focus on utility. We present the utility Inspection Method (UIM), which prompts evaluators about the utility of the system they evaluate. The UIM asks whether a system uses global platforms, provides support infrastructure, is robust, gives access to rich content, allows customisation, offers symbolic value and supports companionship among users and between users and developers. We compare 47 participants’ use of UIM and heuristic evaluation (HE). The UIM helps identify more than three times as many problems as HE about the context of activities; HE helps identify 2.5 times as many problems as UIM about the interface. Usability experts consider the problems found with UIM more severe and more complex to solve compared to those found with HE. We argue that UIM complements existing usability evaluation Methods and discuss future research on utility Inspection.
Rodolfo F Resende - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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semiotic Inspection Method in the context of educational simulation games
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2010Co-Authors: Daniela C C Peixoto, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Rodolfo F ResendeAbstract:Software process simulation is increasingly being used as an approach for analyzing complex business, for supporting management planning, for helping with software process training and learning and for supporting the software process improvement. In addition to providing to users a simulation tool that supports all these aspects, it is also important to consider some other requirements during the tool's design, such as efficient and effective communication of the designer's message to the user. In this way, we show how semiotic concepts can be used in the analysis and generation of knowledge through the application of the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM), a semiotic engineering evaluation Method. In this paper we present a scientific application of SIM to a Software Engineering simulation game focusing the analysis on feedback aspects and issues. The results go beyond the system analyzed and point to considerations regarding simulation games used in educational contexts.
