Interactive Media

The Semiotics of Embodied Interaction

By: Shaleph O'Neill

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The author discusses the existing theoretical approaches of semiotically informed research in HCI, what is useful and the limitations. He proposes a radical rethink to this approach through a re-evaluation of important semiotic concepts and applied semiotic methods. Using a semiotic model of interaction he explores this concept through several studies that help to develop his argument.

He concludes that this semiotics of interaction is more appropriate than other versions because it focuses on the characteristics of interactive media as they are experienced and the way in which users make sense of them rather than thinking about interface design or usability issues.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Operating Systems Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Arts & Entertainment Design, Industrial & Commercial Arts, Illustration Graphical & Digital Media Applications Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design & Usability

Language & Linguistics Linguistics

Introduction	p. 1
Brave New Media World	p. 1
McLuhan and the Environmental Thesis	p. 2
The Anti-Determinist View	p. 3
On-line Social Networks	p. 4
The Need for New Theory	p. 5
The Aim of this Book	p. 6
References	p. 7
Media, Mediation and Interactive Media	p. 9
The Root of Media?	p. 9
Two Different Ways to Think about Media	p. 10
Artistic and Creative Media	p. 11
Communications Media	p. 13
The Rise of Interactive Media	p. 14
Remediation	p. 16
Immediacy	p. 17
Hypermedia	p. 18
The Essential Characteristics of Interactive Media	p. 19
The Technological Convergence of Multiple Media Forms	p. 20
The Digitization, Abstraction and Simulation of Old Media	p. 22
The Interactive Authoring and Interpretation of Meaning	p. 23
Summary	p. 25
References	p. 26
Approaching Interaction	p. 27
Interactive Media Today	p. 27
Human Computer Interaction	p. 28
The Conventional View of Perception and Cognition	p. 29
Mental Modeling	p. 30
The Human Processor Model	p. 31
Execution and Evaluation	p. 32
The Changing Face of HCI	p. 32
Phenomenology and HCI	p. 33
Being-In-The-World	p. 34
Ready-To-Hand Vs Present-At-Hand	p. 35
Computers and Cognition	p. 36
Embodiment	p. 37
Semiotics and HCI	p. 39
Computer Semiotics	p. 39
Semiotic Engineering Research Group (Serg)	p. 41
Current Semiotic Approaches in HCI	p. 42
Summary	p. 43
References	p. 45
Affordance: A Case of Confusion	p. 49
The Many Faces of Affordance	p. 49
Gibson's Original Concept of Affordance	p. 49
Norman's Concept of Affordance	p. 51
Affordance in Technology Design	p. 52
Clarification Or Further Confusion?	p. 54
Affordance in Information Systems	p. 56
Re-Evaluating Gibson's Original Concept of Affordance	p. 58
Saving Gibson from 'The Argument from Illusion'	p. 59
Distinguishing between Direct and Mediated Perception	p. 61
Providing an Adequate Theory of Knowledge as Skill Acquisition	p. 62
Summary	p. 64
References	p. 65
Semiotic Theory	p. 67
Signs and Signification	p. 67
Peircean Semiotics	p. 68
Context and Cultural Codes	p. 70
The Structure of Texts	p. 73
Layers of Meaning	p. 74
Communication	p. 76
Semiotics and Interactive Media	p. 77
Summary	p. 80
References	p. 81
Semiotics and Screen Based Interaction	p. 83
The Semiotic Screen	p. 83
Screen-based Media	p. 83
Graphics, Symbols, and Pictograms	p. 86
Visual Grammar	p. 89
Moving Images	p. 92
Case Study: Remediating Creativity	p. 95
Painting as Interaction	p. 95
Interaction as Painting	p. 97
Zones of Interaction	p. 99
Sense Making During Interaction	p. 101
Discussion	p. 102
Summary	p. 104
References	p. 105
Semiotics and Interactive Environments	p. 107
Products and Spaces	p. 107
Product Semiotics	p. 109
Architectural Semiotics	p. 111
Wayfinding	p. 114
Wayfinding, Architecture, and Interactive Media	p. 116
Case Study: The BENOGO Project	p. 117
Recreating a Botanic Garden	p. 117
Discussion	p. 122
In Relation to Presence	p. 123
Immediacy and Zones of Interaction	p. 124
Summary	p. 125
References	p. 126
Being-with-Media	p. 129
Preparing the Ground for Developing a Theory	p. 129
The Problem of Reality	p. 130
Clearing the Conceptual Ground	p. 133
Bringing It All Together	p. 134
Thrownness and the Mediating Environment	p. 135
Authenticity and Mediation	p. 136
Being, Affordance and Mediation	p. 138
Summary	p. 140
References	p. 141
Embodied Semiotics	p. 143
Non-representational Interaction in a Thoughtless World	p. 143
The Problem of the Semiotic Threshold	p. 145
Semiosic Primitives and Embodied Schemas	p. 146
Semiotics and Embodied Cognition	p. 147
A Motor Theory of Language	p. 149
Semiosis, Embodied Cognition, and Conceptual Blending	p. 150
Blending as Semiosis	p. 152
The Spectrum of Embodied Semiotics	p. 153
Towards Understanding Interactive Media	p. 157
References	p. 159
Understanding Interactive Media	p. 161
Interactive Media Design	p. 161
Emotional Text	p. 161
Do Not Disturb	p. 165
Kensho	p. 170
Tactophonics	p. 172
Concluding Thoughts	p. 177
Signing Off	p. 177
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