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Ergosemiotics of user interface research and design: Foundations, objectives, potential

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Two directions of computer semiotics, structuralistic and linguo-ergonomical, are considered. The necessity in ergosemiotics, its bases, objectives and potential are discussed.

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Uzilevsky, G. (1994). Ergosemiotics of user interface research and design: Foundations, objectives, potential. In: Blumenthal, B., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58648-2_21

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