Computer-Aided Semiosis. Threads, Trends, Threats

摘要

Being aware of the gap between technological offers and user expectations, the paper aims at illustrating the necessity of anthropocentric designs ("user-pulled") and at revealing the dangers of current ICT designs ("technology-pushed"). Since the gap is deepened because of insufficient innovative use of new agent-oriented technology potential, an affordable manner to "invent new Computer-Aided x" application domains is proposed. To substantiate the approach, the domain must be immediately useful, challenging, easy to implement and "as humanist as possible": Computer-Aided Semiosis.