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A semiotic analysis of sounds in personal computers: Toward a semiotic model of human-computer interaction

  • Yoonjae Nam und Joohan Kim
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 4. November 2010
Semiotica
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 2010 Heft 182

Abstract

We compared three types of auditory interface in personal computing environments: verbal messages, earcons, and auditory icons. We applied Peirce's sign theory to the three auditory interfaces to conceptualize verbal messages as “dicent symbol legisigns,” earcons as “dicent indexical legisigns,” and auditory icons as “remantic iconic sinsigns.” Based on theories of the triple triangle model for sign production (Kim, Semiotica 132: 75–100, 2000), we suggested that (a) the three auditory interfaces demand different levels of mental effort for interpretation and (b) the extent to which users are able to interpret the auditory signs of a computer correctly correlates to the communicability of its interface.


Corresponding author: Joohan Kim

Published Online: 2010-11-04
Published in Print: 2010-October

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