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End-User Development is a research topic aimed at empowering end-users to tailor their daily applications. With time, many researchers proposed methods, tools, taxonomies, and other approaches to enable the users and the applications to deal with un-...

Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is an emerging paradigm in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) area, which characterizes the relationship between humans and technologies as a partnership. This paradigm offers new challenges for the HCI area, ...

One of the important challenges regarding the development of morally responsible and ethically qualified digital technologies is how to support designers and developers in producing those technologies, especially when conceptualizing their vision of ...

Polystore systems are a new trend in Database Management Systems, and they focus on storing and processing queries in multiple heterogeneous databases. Polystore systems have complex middleware that provides APIs for multiple types of storage engines. ...

Recommendation systems (SRs) have a major impact on what people consume daily. In order to achieve the goal of recommending relevant items, in addition to improving the accuracy of the recommendation algorithms, it is necessary to use user-centered ...

In this work, we used the results of applying the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) to popular chatbots[12, 13], which yielded eleven strategies for conveying features to users, as well as six sign classes used for designing their interaction. We ...

SPIDe is a semio-participatory methodological process initially composed for the interaction (re)design of educational software. However, some SPIDe studies indicated that it is also possible to elicit requirements through its application due to its ...

MoLIC is a language for modeling human-computer interaction as a conversation that is grounded on Semiotic Engineering theory. It was proposed as an epistemic tool aimed at supporting designers in thinking about and making decisions regarding the ...

Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is the native language of people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (D/HH) in Brazil and it does not replace the Brazilian-Portuguese written language. Considering this fact provided by law, in 2017, the High School ...

In the development process, software models are commonly used to support communication among members of the development team. The risks of miscommunication through software models relate to the model content and to how content is expressed by the ...

In the development process, software models are used to support communication among development team members. Failures of communication that is mediated by software models may generate inconsistencies in software behavior, generating rework to correct ...

Software artifacts are products created during software development. Through them, designers communicate their intent and understanding of a system to other members of the development team. And the intent will, in the end, be communicated to end users ...

Semiotic engineering is based upon the semiotic theory of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), which focuses on communication between designers and users. Semiotic engineering tries to improve users' interpretation through meta-communication and emphasizes ...

The Web 2.0, the second generation of web applications, offers innovative ways for users to access information and to add content, in a collaborative way. Our research is focused on how those systems communicates the reputation, i.e., the validity and ...

This research investigated the use of the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) in digital games, by employing it in the analysis of the following games: Ingress, Kinectimals and Just Dance Now. In the research, we analyzed to what extent SIM can be used to ...

Examples are commonly used as support to teach and learn programming. However, programming students (even the most experienced ones) neglect the study of code and the understanding of the message conveyed by it, preferring to reuse e adapt the code to ...

The increasing use of mobile devices has favored the use of mobile apps as a learning tool. With this popularity, one of the concerns of Human Computer Interaction area (HCI) is how to motivate users through the interface and interaction model, to make ...

This paper addresses privacy related to individual's personal information disclosure in the context of Social Network Sites (SNSs). We present the Privacy Design Model (PDM) - built upon Altman's theory of privacy and Semiotic Engineering theory - as a ...

Accessibility actions in Distance Education (DE) seek to contribute to the integration of deaf students in higher education. For the actions that can be proposed, it is necessary to be well acquainted of the needs of this target audience in terms of ...

Smartphones are increasingly present in people's lives and, thus, there is a growing trend of application development for these devices. The development of this type of application requires special attention to communication quality with the user. This ...