Improving human life through software signs and symbols
We focus this lens on how to improve human life by using software signs and symbols to create meaningful systems. Incidentally, the theme symbol for this lens is the interrobang, invented by the LensMaster's uncle, Martin K. Speckter, in 1962.
Definition of Software Semiotics
Software semiotics is the study of how to use software signs, symbols, languages, and processes to create meaning.
Related Wikipedia Definitions
- Semiotics
- Semiotics, or semiology, is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is made and understood.
- Semiology
- See the definition for Semiotics.
- Semiosis
- Semiosis is the making or production of meaning.
- Semiosphere
- Semiosphere is the sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts.
- Sign
- In semiotics, a sign is generally defined as, "...something that stands for something else, to someone in some capacity." (Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron, "Analyzing Cultures"). It may be understood as a discrete unit of meaning, whether denotative or connotative. Signs are not just words, but also include images, gestures, scents, tastes, textures, sounds - essentially all of the ways in which information can be processed into a codified form and communicated as a message by any sentient, reasoning mind to another.
- Symbol
- A symbol, in its basic sense, is a conventional representation of a concept or quantity; i.e., an idea, object, concept, quality, etc.
- List of symbols
- This is a list of graphical signs, icons, and symbols.
- Computational Semiotics
- Computational semiotics is the application of semiotics to computing machinery. It is the attempt to expand the realm of useful, computationally tractable logical operations, extending computer science past data processing into full semiosis.
- Code (semiotics)
- Codes are rule-driven systems which suggest the choice of signifiers and their collocation to transmit the intended meanings in the most effective way. To that extent, codes represent a broad interpretative framework used by both addressers and their addressees to encode and decode the messages. Self-evidently, the most effective communications will result when both creator and interpreter use exactly the same code.
The Meaning of
- Meaning - Wikipedia
- The Wikipedia defines "meaning" as "a set of thoughts that people take symbols to have." Meaning does not have to be expressed in language, it can be non-linguistic. Watch peoples' gestures and body language and you can get their non-linguistic meanings - if you're sharp. Through this lens, we will further examine how meaining relates to the signs and symbols of software.
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