Computer semiotics is a specialized area within semiotics that focuses on the study of signs and symbols as they relate to computer systems, digital communication, and human-computer interaction (HCI). It explores how meaning is created, communicated, and interpreted in the context of digital technologies, including software interfaces, programming languages, and online interactions. Computer semiotics bridges the gap between human users and digital systems, analyzing how signs (such as icons, menus, and commands) facilitate or hinder communication and interaction.
The creation of computer semiotics is usually related to the First international seminar on computer semiotics, held in 1997 in Paris. The seminar was attended by scientists from France, Canada, and the USA.
The program of the seminar included discussions on topics like the problems of computer semiotics of text, semiomethodology of text analysis on the Internet, organizational semiotics of the problems of structuring and maintaining databases of text, and the extrapolation of data from biosemiotics of genetic algorithms when working with neuro networks and cell automatons.
