On signifying the complexity of inter-agent relations in agentsheets games and simulations
Marcelle Pereira Mota, Ingrid Teixeira Monteiro, Juliana Jansen Ferreira, Cleyton Slaviero, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza · 2013
This paper reports the results of an empirical study about the semiotic engineering of signs of complexity for live documentation of games and simulations built with a visual programming learning environment. The study highlights the essence of the semiotic engineering process and shows how its outcome has been received by a group of users who can speak for a large portion of the live documentation system's user population. It also shows how the communication of complexity is, in and of itself, a major design challenge, especially when mastering complexity is one of the prime purposes of the documented object. Because the study was carried out in the context of a live documentation system, its conclusions can also illustrate how to conduct semiotically-inspired interaction design.