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Exploring the Communication of Cultural Perspectives in Death-Related Interactive Systems

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Carla Faria Leitão,

Vinícius Carvalho Pereira,

Cristiano MacielAuthors Info & Claims

IHC '17: Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Article No.: 26, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3160504.3160527

Published: 23 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

This paper analyzes the communication of cultural issues in death-related interactive systems, based on the exploration of an app that supports visits to cemeteries. The inspection, analysis and discussion of the results are grounded on the theoretical and methodological bases of Semiotic Engineering. The main contribution of the paper is to help designers of systems in this domain: a. define the interface mediation between users and contents from a foreign culture; and b. organize and express these contents.

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