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What is Sign

Chapter 1
Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization
A conventional shape or form telling about facts, ideas, or information. It is a distinct thing that signifies another thing. Natural signs signify events caused by nature, while conventional signs may signal art, social interactions, fashion, food, interactions with technology, machines, and practically everything else.
Published in Chapter:
Cognitive Learning with Electronic Media and Social Networking
Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 71
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch001
Abstract
This chapter explores the existing and potential possibilities of exchanging information through the means that exceed those relating only to a text. Discussion entails knowledge visualization and the verbal and nonverbal ways of communication in the physical and online settings. After giving some consideration to the ways we communicate, cognitive activities are discussed by examining notions of cognitive thinking, cognitive science, and cognitive learning. Then follow some remarks on cognitive learning with knowledge visualization, whether occurring in a classroom and online with the use of computer technology, carried out through the social networking, or conducted with the use of educational games. Descriptions of the visual/verbal approach to learning with communication media and a discussion about criticism and assessment with respect to digital art and graphics conclude the chapter.
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Chapter 7
Alphabets and Characters
Tells about a fact, an idea, or information; it is a distinct thing that signifies another thing. Natural signs signify events caused by nature, while conventional signs may signal art, social interactions, fashion, food, interaction with technology, machines, and practically everything else.
Published in Chapter: Alphabets and Characters; From: Describing Nature Through Visual Data
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Chapter 8
Visualization by Coding: Drawing Simple Shapes and Forms in Various Programming Languages
A conventional shape or form to explain facts, ideas, or information. A sign is a distinct thing that signifies another thing. Natural signs signify events caused by nature, while conventional signs may signal art, social interactions, fashion, food, interactions with technology, machines, and practically everything else. An icon represents a thing or refers to something by resembling or imitating it; thus a picture, a photograph, a mathematical expression, or an old-style telephone may be regarded an iconic object. Thus, an iconic object has some qualities in common with things it represents by looking, sounding, feeling, tasting, or smelling alike.
Published in Chapter: Visualization by Coding: Drawing Simple Shapes and Forms in Various Programming Languages; From: Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization
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Chapter 8
Representing Trump and Trumpism Through Caricature: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Editorial Cartoons Published in Nasoweseeam
An object, quality or event whose presence or concurrence stands for something else. Signs have two parts: signifier and signified. They equally have physical forms, refer to something other than themselves and are used and recognized within specific communities as signs.
Published in Chapter: Representing Trump and Trumpism Through Caricature: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Editorial Cartoons Published in Nasoweseeam; From: Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
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Chapter 1
Advances in Describing and Managing Our Environment
A conventional shape or form telling about facts, ideas, or information. It is a distinct thing that signifies another thing. Natural signs signify events caused by nature, while conventional signs may signal art, social interactions, fashion, food, interactions with technology, machines, and practically everything else.
Published in Chapter: Advances in Describing and Managing Our Environment; From: Describing Nature Through Visual Data
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Chapter 20
The Tangible Lure of the Technoself in the Age of Reality Television
A representation constituted by three elements that cooperate to generate meaning: (1) the sign itself, i.e., a medium through which some aspect of (2) the object represented is revealed by generating (3) another sign, the interpretant or meaning.
Published in Chapter: The Tangible Lure of the Technoself in the Age of Reality Television; From: Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society
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Chapter 3
Creating Characters for Various Interfaces
a conventional shape or form telling about facts, ideas, or information. It is a distinct thing that signifies another thing. Natural signs signify events caused by nature, while conventional signs may signal art, social interactions, fashion, food, interactions with technology, machines, and practically everything else.
Published in Chapter: Creating Characters for Various Interfaces; From: Interface Support for Creativity, Productivity, and Expression in Computer Graphics
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Chapter 12
Using a Design Science Research Approach to Develop a HCI Artifact for Designing Web Interfaces: A Case Study
Anything like a sound, a word, an image, etc. can be defined as a sign if it refers to some object rather than itself. For instance, the word ‘ENTRY’ on a door outside a hall room provides an indication to use that door to in the hall room. In this case, we may treat the word ‘ENTRY’ as a sign.
Published in Chapter: Using a Design Science Research Approach to Develop a HCI Artifact for Designing Web Interfaces: A Case Study; From: Handbook of Research on Human-Computer Interfaces, Developments, and Applications
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Chapter 1
An Authopreter Narrative: An Essay on Reading the Book Saussure Suspects With Author-Interpreter Interaction
It is the main object of semiotics that stands for anything except itself, which could be a colour, a sound, an image, a gesture conveying a meaning.
Published in Chapter: An Authopreter Narrative: An Essay on Reading the Book Saussure Suspects With Author-Interpreter Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
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Chapter 226
Symbol Grounding Problem
Something that stands for something else in a certain aspect to someone.
Published in Chapter: Symbol Grounding Problem; From: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 17
Flexible Multimedia Stream Authentication
The algorithm in a digital signature scheme used to generate a cryptography value-signature over a message using one’s private key.
Published in Chapter: Flexible Multimedia Stream Authentication; From: Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution
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Chapter 14
Marketing Christianity and Men of God Through the Use of Signs: A Study of Advertising Copies by Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in Nigeria
Anything (word, image, sound, facial expression or gesture among others) which, in some capacity or respect, stands for something other than itself. A sign generally has three essential characteristics: it must have a physical form, it must refer to something other than itself and it must be recognized by a community of users as a sign.
Published in Chapter: Marketing Christianity and Men of God Through the Use of Signs: A Study of Advertising Copies by Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in Nigeria; From: The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes
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