Web B – Treemaps and Semiotic Inspection
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Message
CONTEXT
Response
Channel
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First download & Install
Treemaps
Please go to
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/
to install the software tool.
Run the software and open the simple1 data
file. You should see the following slide.
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Download Treemap 4.1
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Open
simple1.
tm3
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Play, think, learn
• Play with the software – document what
you do as you do it.
• Not look at someone else using treemaps
in the next slides.
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Interlocutors
• Inspecting interlocutors:
– Who is speaking?
– To whom?
– Are the interlocutors represented?
– Is the direction of interlocution represented?
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Tree maps
Construct a schematic
representation
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Another schematic of
inter-process
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Elaborate Discourse
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Prepare
Focus
Identify
Evaluate
Select
Elaborate
Sender
Receiver
Action
Message
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Options for initiating
initiate
Initiation
type
Elicit
response
Instruct
Demand
action
Prepare
Respondent
Query
Specific
Whole (all)
Direct
attention
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Options for responding
Response
Act
Identify
Select
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Options for feedback
Feedback
Evaluate
Elaborate
Confirmation
Affirm
Reject
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Representations
• Are representations
– Indexical?
• Dimension of contiguity between representation
and referent?
– Symbolic?
• What symbol systems used?
• Who produces? When and how?
– Iconic?
• Static or dynamic?
• Which are qualitative?
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Inspecting message and code
• What is the speaker saying?
– Using which code and medium?
– Are the code and medium appropriate?
• Are there alternatives?
• Are the speaker and listeners sharing the
same signification system?
• Can the speaker encode differently?
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All Done
• Please put your documentation in the
assignment Web B
• Thanks!
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