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The role of the user in Interaction Design through a semiotic perspective

The role of the user in Interaction Design through a semiotic perspective

Panel:
[TO] Architectural, urban and visual semiotics (chaired by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos)
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Speaker:
Erika Rodriguez Martinez
ICONOS, Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación y Cultura
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Nowadays, Interaction Design has focused on analyzing users who directly use the different products that currently exist, whether objects, images, fashion, multimedia, furniture, apps and so on, which act as semiotic vehicles within a complex interactive process.The users are in different social and cultural settings that are semiospheres where the texts are concentrated, produced and they constantly are reconfigured. The dynamics of these spaces influence the behavior of users, causing their sociocultural needs, desires, beliefs and motivations to change continually. Under this changing context, the view is complex, the interactions are not linear and for this reason, semiotics contributes to the understanding of the interactive processes to analyze the dynamics and continuous changes that influence the creation of new designs.The semiosphere where the design texts are produced do not remain isolated, but rather interrelate with others, an interaction is established between two or more semiospheres when a translation process takes place through alosemiotic texts, encouraging greater dynamism and a changing scenario where users transform their thinking and environment, creating increasingly complex texts on which Interaction Design must focus to understand the production and reproduction of discursive semiotic processes.In conclusion, the proposal is to adopt a semiotic perspective during Interaction Design processes to see users as agents of change that influence in the production of design discourses. Furthermore, this perspective lets to know and to deeply understand the semiosis develops between the user and the design with the aim to create texts that promote sociocultural diversity.

Location:
3.110 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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Erika Rodriguez Martinez