Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the 1970 s, Brazilian marginal poetry broadened the communicative levels of the poetic text in order to attract more readers. To achieve that, it questioned the traditional procedures of modern lyric poetry, thus making explicit a series of changes in contemporary sensitivity and creating difficulties to established critical approaches. In this period of paradigms rupture we find the poet Zuca Sardan, whose book, Ás de Colete (originally published in 1979 and re-edited by Editora da Unicamp in 1994), is the object of reflection in this work. Aiming at discussing some of its characteristics, I propose a reading based on the concept of antipoetry, which helps to understand the sardanian poem as a hybrid discourse based on some of its most prominent aspects: image, humor and communicative form (effect of the strategic use of resources commonly associated to prose), conjugated in order to produce a revealing and unusual estrangement effect on the reader s perception. / Nos anos 70, a poesia marginal brasileira ampliou os níveis de comunicabilidade do texto poético no intuito de atrair mais leitores. Para isso, questionou os procedimentos tradicionais da poesia lírica moderna, explicitando uma série de mudanças na sensibilidade dos sujeitos contemporâneos e criando dificuldades para as formas consagradas de abordagem crítica. Nesse período de ruptura de paradigmas situa-se o poeta Zuca Sardan, cujo livro, Ás de Colete (originalmente publicado em 1979 e reeditado pela Editora da Unicamp em 1994), é o objeto de reflexão deste trabalho. No intuito de discutir algumas de suas características, proponho uma leitura a partir do conceito de antipoesia, que ajuda a compreender o poema sardaniano como discurso híbrido com base em alguns de seus aspectos mais proeminentes: imagem, humor e forma comunicável (efeito do uso estratégico de recursos comumente associados à prosa), os quais se coadunam de modo a produzir um revelador e inusitado efeito de estranhamento sobre a percepção sensível do leitor.

[pt] Este trabalho analisa um discurso de resistência gravado em 2017 na Cracolândia de São Paulo e observa sua viralização e circulação até sua transformação em um caso. A pesquisa investiga como a fala de Carlos Eduardo é seguidamente compartilhada (re-entextualizada) e quais são os efeitos discursivos destas circulações textuais. Mediadas por categorias da antropologia linguística contemporânea, as análises de dados interrelacionam a história da pesquisa, os temas maiores e a perspectiva da mídia corporativa sobre o caso. É uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, posicionada e implicad(íssima), pois é atravessada pela relação afetiva prévia entre o autor do discurso e a pesquisadora. A conclusão a que se chega é que o hibridismo do lugar social de Cadu é o próprio germe de sua mobilidade, que se manifesta no uso hábil das funções poéticas, no manejo dos índices que reúne. A transformação do caso em notícia abre por sua vez rotas de espraiamento (de comunicabilidade) diferentes das imaginadas (projetadas) no local de produção deste discurso (o coletivo antiproibicionista de redutores de danos A Craco Resiste). O entrelugar social de Cadu e seu lugar de exceção são grifados em narrativas focadas em sua biografia e os temas-tabu indiciados no discurso são apagados pela notícia espetacular de seu resgate improvável. / [en] The present work analyses a discourse of resistance recorded in 2017 in the Crackland of São Paulo and follows its process of going viral until it turns into a proper case. This research investigates: the way Carlos Eduardo s speech is repeatedly shared (re-entextualized) and which are the discourse effects of such textual circulations. Under the mediation of categories from the contemporary linguistic anthropology, the data analysis intertwines the story of this research with broader themes and the perspective of corporative media. Located in the tradition of qualitative research, this work positions itself as highly engaged and committed since it is directly connected to the personal relationship between the author of the discourse at stake and the present re-searcher. The conclusion is that the hybridism that defines Cadu s social place represents the germ of his mobility, which is expressed through his dexterous poetical faculties and the way he manages to access them. The transformation of the case into news opens up space for spreading routes of communicability which are distinct from the ones projected in its discoursive production site - the harm reduction anti-prohibitionist collective A Craco Resiste. Cadu s social inbetween place, as well as his exceptionalism, are highlighted throughout narratives focused in his biography while the taboo issues that come up in the discourse level are overcast by breaking news of his unlikely rescue.

Non prévue par les textes, l'actualisation de la Constitution ravive le plus souvent la crainte d'un gouvernement des juges. Il faut dire que selon une acceptation classiquement répandue, le Conseil constitutionnel excéderait le cadre général de sa mission à chaque fois qu'il s'écarterait de la signification originaire des énoncés constitutionnels. Il appartiendrait au Conseil constitutionnel d'examiner seulement un rapport de conformité au regard d'une norme constitutionnelle qui s'imposerait à lui. Cette approche de l'office du juge constitutionnel est réductrice, elle néglige les rapports entre le temps et la Constitution. L'étude comparée des expériences espagnole, italienne et française amène ainsi à repenser l'office du juge constitutionnel à l'aune de la variable temps. En cela, l'adaptation de la norme constitutionnelle à la réalité sociale, permise par la liberté d'interprétation du juge constitutionnel, contribue à la préservation de la longévité de la Constitution. La longévité requiert en effet en sus de la stabilité, soit de la continuité de la Constitution, la mutabilité de la substance constitutionnelle. Or, garantir la suprématie de la Constitution implique, dans une perspective d'intemporalité, de préserver sa longévité. L'actualisation de la Constitution constitue dès lors une fonction implicite du juge constitutionnel visant à garantir la longévité de la Constitution par le biais de l'interprétation de la Constitution. Une fonction que le juge constitutionnel s'efforce d'encadrer afin de respecter l'équilibre des pouvoirs inhérent à un État de droit. / Not planned by law, the updating of the Constitution often revives the fear of a government of the judges. In fact, according to a widespread acceptance: the Constitutional Council would exceed the general framework of its mission every time it deviates from the original meaning of constitutional statements. The sole duty of the Constitutional Council would be to examine a relationship of compliance with regard to a constitutional standard, which would be imperative upon him. This approach of the office of the constitutional judge is reducing and neglects relationships between time and the Constitution. The comparative study of Spanish, Italian and French experiences leads to rethink the office of the constitutional judge by considering it in light of the time variable. In that respect, adaptation of the constitutional standard to social reality, allowed by the freedom of interpretation of the constitutional judge, contributes to the Constitution's preservation and longevity. Indeed, longevity requires, in addition to stability, which ensures the Constitution's continuity, mutability of the constitutional substance. Now, ensuring the Constitution's supremacy implies, in a perspective of timelessness, to preserve its longevity. From then on, updating the Constitution is an implicit duty of the constitutional judge, aiming to en sure the Constitution's longevity through its interpretation. A duty that the constitutional judge endeavours to supervise strictly in order to respect the balance of powers inherent to a State subject to the rule of law.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird aufgrund der kommentierten Quellen die Tatsache erhellt, dass der Kantsche Anspruch auf Legitimität des Erkenntnisverfahrens, wie er in seiner Transzendentalphilosophie zum Ausdruck gebracht wurde, von drei Momenten des Gedankenprozesses in der Philosophie der Deutschen Aufklärung vorangekündigt wird: a) der Verschiebung der Problematik der deutschen Philosophie vom „Harmonie“-Gedanken der so genannten Leibniz-Wolff-Schule und ihrer Gegner hin zur Fragestellung nach der „Realisierung der Begriffe“ bei Tetens, in der sich der Mensch als sinnstiftendes Wesen dartut, b) dem bereits bei Thomasius in Sprachparallelen zu Kant auftretenden „empiriorationalistischen“ Moment, das die gesamte Periode des Kampfes um die Wolffsche Lehre begleitet und bei Lambert eine neue Form (a priori durch Erfahrung) bekommt, c) dem Verständnis der Denkbarkeit bzw. Begreifbarkeit als Mitteilbarkeit, das schon in der Frühaufklärung (von Thomasius implizit, von Tschirnhaus explizit) anzutreffen ist und von den Zeitgenossen Kants rehabilitiert und von Tetens als Frage nach der Intersubjektivität (das „Objectivische“ als das „unveränderlich Subjectivische“) betont wird. Mit den Werken von Lambert und Tetens, in denen Gott fast keine Rolle mehr spielt, emanzipiert sich das philosophische Denken endgültig von der religiösen Furcht und dem „metaphysischen Schauder“, die während der Barockzeit durch den Triumph der wissenschaftlichen Revolution hervorgebracht worden waren. In der Philosophie der beiden Zeitgenossen Kants versteht sich der Mensch nicht mehr als „intellectus ectypus“, sondern zum ersten Mal als potentieller Gesetzgeber der Natur. Folglich macht diese Tatsache klar, dass Kant auf bereits gestellte Fragen zu antworten hatte. / The current dissertation, which is based on documented sources, elucidates the fact that the Kantian claim of the legitimacy of the cognitive process, as this claim is expressed in the Kantian “Transcendental Philosophy”, had its precursor in three major elements of the philosophical evolution in the German Enlightenment: a)The shifting of the philosophical problematic in the German Enlightenmentfrom the “harmony”-thinking of the Wolffians and their detractors, to Tetens’ posit of the “realization” of concepts, according to which a human being is proven as a meaning-establishing entity; b) The “empiriorationalistic” element in Thomasius, which finds parallels in Kantian formulations, remains active during the whole controversy surrounding the Wolffian teaching, and then acquires a new form in Lambert (a priori through experience); c) The understanding of “conceivability” as “communicability”, which is already present in the early German Enlightenment, implicitly in Thomasius and explicitly in Tschirnhaus, does not come under discussion in the era of Wolff. However, this element comes under the spotlight by Kant’s contemporaries, especially highlighted in Tetens’ question of intersubjectivity (the objective as the “unchangeably subjective”). The representatives of German Enlightenment Philosophy after 1760 freed from the metaphysical shudder caused by the “scientific revolution”, are the very first to comprehend the human intellect, not as “intellectus ectypus”, but as the legislator of nature. In this way, German philosophical thought is to abandon once and for all the baroque world-view. The systems of Lambert and Tetens show clearly that Kant elaborated on questions that they had already posed in an elementary form.

[ES] La tecnología multi-táctil se ha convertido en una de las más emergentes tras experimentar un enorme crecimiento desde sus pasos iniciales en los años ochenta hasta su amplia aceptación y uso en la actualidad. Por una parte, la tecnología multi-táctil se basa en el estilo de interacción de manipulación directa el cual proporciona a los usuarios la ventaja de ver los objetos y las acciones de interés, sustituir comandos escritos por acciones de señalado y, además, permite la realización de acciones rápidas, reversibles e incrementales evitando el uso de instrucciones complejas. Por otra parte, diversos trabajos han evaluado las virtudes derivadas de utilizar conjuntamente la manipulación directa con el toque directo mostrando que es posible evitar los problemas inherentes a otras técnicas de interacción como el ratón y el teclado. Por lo tanto, aprovechando la interacción natural e intuitiva proporcionada por la tecnología multi-táctil, ésta parece una forma ideal para dar soporte a la creación de escenarios educativos dirigidos a niños en edad preescolar. Sin embargo, a pesar de la existencia de diversos estudios que evalúan la idoneidad de utilizar el estilo de interacción de manipulación directa, existe una falta de trabajos abordando el uso dispositivos basados en superficies táctiles con niños de una temprana edad. Asimismo, en la actualidad existe una creciente tendencia a diseñar aplicaciones educativas y lúdicas dirigidas a niños en edad preescolar utilizando dispositivos multi-táctiles como los teléfonos inteligentes o las tabletas. Además, diversos informes señalan que los niños son usuarios frecuentes de este tipo de dispositivos y los utilizan incluso antes de ser capaces de hablar. Sin embargo, a pesar de este crecimiento en el uso de la tecnología multi-táctil y su aparente idoneidad para ser utilizado en el desarrollo de aplicaciones educativas para niños en edad preescolar, no existen unas interacciones universales y estandarizadas para preescolares a la hora de utilizar dispositivos táctiles ya que habitualmente sólo se utilizan dos gestos básicos (básicamente, el toque con un dedo para seleccionar y el arrastre con un dedo para el movimiento). Por lo tanto, existe una clara necesidad de llevar a cabo estudios empíricos para contribuir y avanzar en el diseño de aplicaciones que den un soporte adecuado y encaje con las habilidades de los niños en su temprano desarrollo. Por tanto, esta tesis propone, diseña y evalúa diversas estrategias de usabilidad y comunicabilidad adaptadas a los niños en edad preescolar para establecer la base para el diseño y desarrollo de futuras aplicaciones basadas en dispositivos táctiles dirigidas a preescolares. Estas estrategias llevarán a la adecuada definición de guías de diseño que permitirán a los niños aprovechar al máximo la tecnología multi-táctil, harán posible el desarrollo de nuevas y atractivas aplicaciones y, eventualmente, también podrán ayudar al desarrollo cognitivo y motor de los niños. / [CAT] La tecnologia multi-tàctil s'ha convertit en una de les més emergents després d'experimentar un enorme creixement des dels seus passos inicials als anys vuitanta fins l'actualitat on es àmpliament acceptada i utilitzada. D'una banda, la tecnologia multi-tàctil es basa en l'estil d'interacció de manipulació directa, el qual proporciona als usuaris l'avantatge de veure els objectes i les accions d'interès, substituir comandos escrits per accions d'assenyalament i, a més, permet la realització d'accions, ràpides, reversibles i incrementals evitant l'ús d'instruccions complexes. D'altra banda, diversos treballs han avaluat les virtuts derivades d'utilitzar conjuntament la manipulació directa amb el toc directe mostrant que és possible evitar els problemes inherents a altres tècniques d'interacció com el ratolí i el teclat. Per tant, aprofitant la interacció natural i intuïtiva proporcionada per la tecnologia multi-tàctil, aquesta sembla una forma ideal per donar suport a la creació d'escenaris educatius per a xiquets en edat preescolar. No obstant això, malgrat l'existència de diversos estudis que avaluen la idoneïtat d'utilitzar l'estil d'interacció de manipulació directa, existeix una manca de treballs abordant l'ús de dispositius basats en superfícies tàctils amb xiquets d'edat primerenca. Així mateix, en l'actualitat existeix una creixent tendència a dissenyar aplicacions educatives i lúdiques dirigides a xiquets en edat preescolar utilitzant dispositius tàctils com els telèfons intel¿ligents o les tauletes. A més, diversos informes assenyalen que els xiquets són usuaris freqüents d'aquests tipus de dispositius i els utilitzen fins i tot abans de ser capaços de parlar. Malgrat aquest creixement en l'ús de la tecnologia multi-tàctil i la seua aparent idoneïtat per a ser utilitzada en el desenvolupament d'aplicacions educatives per a xiquets en edat preescolar, no existeixen unes interaccions universals i estandarditzades per a preescolars a l'hora d'utilitzar dispositius tàctils ja que habitualment només s'utilitzen dos gestos bàsics (bàsicament, el toc amb un dit per a seleccionar i l'arrossegament amb un dit per al moviment). Per tant, hi ha una clara necessitat de dur a terme estudis empírics per a contribuir i avançar en el disseny d'aplicacions que donen un suport adequat i s'ajusten amb les habilitats dels xiquets en el seu primerenc desenvolupament. Per tant, la tesi proposa, dissenya i avalua diverses estratègies de usabilitat i comunicabilitat adaptades als xiquets en edat preescolar per tal d'establir la base per al disseny i desenvolupament de futures aplicacions basades en dispositius tàctils dirigides a preescolars. Aquestes estratègies portaran a l'adequada definició de guies de disseny que permetran als xiquets aprofitar al màxim la tecnologia multi-tàctil, faran possible el desenvolupament de noves i atractives aplicacions i, eventualment, podran també ajudar al desenvolupament cognitiu i motor dels xiquets. / [EN] Multi-touch technology has become one of the most emergent technologies and has had an enormous growth since its initial steps in the eighties to be widespread accepted and used in the present. On the one hand, multi-touch technology relies on the direct manipulation interaction style which gives users the advantage to view the objects and actions of interest, replace typed commands by pointing actions and to perform rapid, reversible and incremental actions avoiding using complex instructions. On the other hand, several works have evaluated the virtues when joining direct manipulation with direct-touching showing that it solves the problems inherent in other interaction devices, such as those involving mouse or keyboard. Hence, taking advantage of the intuitive and natural interaction provided by multi-touch technology it seems an ideal way to support educational scenarios targeted to kindergarten children. Although several works have assessed the suitability of using the direct manipulation style with children, there is a lack of works addressing the use of touchscreen devices by this specific type of users. Moreover, there is a growing trend of designing educational and playful applications targeted to kindergarten children based on touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, several reports point out that children use touchscreen devices even before they are able to speak and they are frequent users of devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, despite this growth in the use of multi-touch technology by children and its apparent suitability to be used to develop applications targeted to young children, there is a lack of standardized and universally accepted interactions for young children when using touchscreen devices since only two basic gestures are commonly used (basically, consisting of only one-finger touch for selection and one-finger drag for movement). Hence, there is a need of carrying out empirical studies to help and advance in the design of applications that adequately support and fit with children's development and skills. Therefore, this thesis proposes, designs and evaluates several usability and communicability strategies tailored to children in their early development stage to establish the design and development of future applications targeted to kindergarten children. These strategies will lead to define appropriate design strategies that enable infants to take full advantage of multi-touch technology, would make it possible to develop attractive new applications and, eventually, could also aid children's cognitive and motor development. / Nácher Soler, VE. (2019). Kindertivity: Usability and Communicability Strategies for Interactive Surfaces and Pre-Kindergarten Children [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/116833 / TESIS

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T14:02:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 edna.pdf: 3673971 bytes, checksum: 89ecadfcc33fc87adf6e023ed082081a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-29 / In order to evaluate communicability in virtual environments developed using Moodle, also considering how novice students react when developing basic tasks through that software, this work describes how MIS and MAC two methods from Semiotic Engineering were used to evaluate designer-user interaction (under student profile) in this class of environment. From experiments with Moodle IFAM and ColabWeb, both environments currently used with distance learning courses offered by two Brazilian Federal Higher Education institutions, we describe how application of a successive refinement schema for the interface, based on the setting of elements available. / Com o objetivo de avaliar a comunicabilidade de ambientes virtuais desenvolvidos a partir da plataforma Moodle, verificando como alunos novatos reagem ao realizarem determinadas tarefas utilizando o sistema, este trabalho descreve como os métodos MIS e MAC da Engenharia Semiótica foram aplicados para a avaliação da interação designer-usuário (perfil aluno) em ambientes dessa categoria. A partir de experimentos com os ambientes Moodle IFAM e ColabWeb, ambos utilizados nas disciplinas a distância oferecidas atualmente por duas IFES, descrevemos a aplicação de um esquema de refinamentos sucessivos da interface a partir da modificação dos elementos de configuração disponíveis.

Difficile de nier qu’il arrive quelque chose au droit constitutionnel sousl’effet conjugué de l’internationalisation du droit et de la construction communautaire. Eneffet, le droit constitutionnel s’internationalise, se régionalise dans un mouvementexponentiel. L’Afrique en général et l’espace CEDEAO en particulier n’échappent guère àcette dynamique globale du constitutionnalisme moderne. Aussi, a-t-on constaté quel’internationalisation du droit constitutionnel sur le continent africain qui prend la forme d’unprocessus d’impact, d’influence ou parfois de contraintes induit à la fois à une reconfigurationhorizontale des pouvoirs constitutionnels et une redistribution verticale du pouvoir au sein del’Etat. En revanche, au niveau supranational, ce processus dynamique et intense qui marqueune ouverture des systèmes de droit et favorise la communicabilité entre ordres juridiques setraduit par un phénomène d’intégration, d’harmonisation progressive des systèmesconstitutionnels étatiques autour de standards démocratiques consacrés par le Protocole de laCEDEAO sur la démocratie et la bonne gouvernance de 2001. La dialectique est, au final,paradoxale en ce que l’internationalisation du droit constitutionnel en Afrique et plusparticulièrement dans l’espace CEDEAO se révèle être l’expression d’un phénomèneperturbateur des ordres juridiques constitutionnels étatiques et communautaire mais aussi eten même temps un instrument de convergence matérielle (droits fondamentaux) et structurelle(régime politique démocratique) de ces dits ordres au travers de standards constitutifs dupatrimoine constitutionnel commun. / It is difficult to deny that something has happened to constitutional lawunder the combined effect of the internationalization of law and the construction of thecommunity. Indeed, constitutional law is internationalized, regionalized in an exponentialmovement. Africa in general and the ECOWAS area in particular do not escape the globaldynamics of modern constitutionalism. Thus, it has been observed that theinternationalization of constitutional law on the African continent, which takes the form of aprocess of impact, influence or sometimes constraints, leads both to a horizontalreconfiguration of constitutional and a vertical redistribution of power within the state. Onthe other hand, at the supranational level, this dynamic and intense process, which marks anopening up of legal systems and promotes communication between legal orders, is reflectedin a phenomenon of integration and progressive harmonization of the state's constitutionalsystems around democratic standards The ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and GoodGovernance of 2001. The dialectic is, in the end, paradoxical in that the internationalizationof constitutional law in Africa and more particularly in the ECOWAS area proves to be aphenomenon Disrupting the constitutional legal systems of the state and the community,and at the same time an instrument of material (fundamental) and structural (democraticpolitical rule, rule of law) convergence of these orders through standards which constitutethe common constitutional heritage.

[pt] Desenvolvimento de software é um processo altamente colaborativo, no qual a construção do software é o objetivo comum. É apoiado em várias fases por ferramentas computacionais, dentre elas as ferramentas de modelagem de software. Modelos são parte importante do processo de desenvolvimento de software e o foco desta pesquisa, que tem como objetivo investigar a comunicabilidade de modelos de software que são produzidos e consumidos através de ferramentas de modelagem. A comunicabilidade de modelos de software é a capacidade que estes artefatos têm de efetuar o processo de comunicação entre pessoas, ou a de serem usados como instrumentos para realizar parte significativa deste processo. As ferramentas de modelagem têm impacto direto nessa comunicabilidade, já que os produtores e consumidores de modelos interagem com tais ferramentas ao longo do processo de desenvolvimento do software. Durante essa interação, os modelos de software, que são artefatos intelectuais, são criados, alterados, evoluídos, transformados e compartilhados pelas pessoas envolvidas nas atividades de especificação, análise, design e implementação do software em desenvolvimento. Além da influência das ferramentas, a modelagem de software também deve considerar a utilização de notações previamente definidas como premissas para as atividades de modelagem. Esta pesquisa é uma investigação como ferramentas e notações de modelagem influenciam e apoiam o processo intelectual de produção e consumo de modelos de software. Temos a Engenharia Semiótica como teoria guia desta pesquisa, tendo em conta um aspecto essencial para esta que é: um estudo criterioso das ferramentas que os envolvidos no desenvolvimento do software utilizam para construir, usar e divulgar modelos através dos quais coordenam o seu trabalho de equipe. O uso de modelos no processo de desenvolvimento de software é um fenômeno que apresenta vários fatores que não podem ser isolados. Portanto, propomos a tripla Tool-Notation-People (TNP) como um recurso de articulação para caracterizar questões observadas sobre modelos no desenvolvimento de software, ao longo de toda a pesquisa. Junto com a tripla TNP, apresentamos um método que combina as perspectivas cognitiva e semiótica para avaliar as ferramentas de modelagem de software, produzindo dados sobre a metacomunicação designer-usuário, sendo os usuários, neste caso, os desenvolvedores de software. Nosso objetivo é rastrear potenciais relações entre a experiência de interação humano-computador dos evolvidos no processo de desenvolvimento de software no momento de criar/ler/editar modelos com: (a) o produto (tipos de modelo) gerado neste processo; e (b) as interpretações que tais modelos evocam quando usados efetivamente em situações práticas do cotidiano para comunicar e expressar ideias e entendimentos . A Engenharia Semiótica apresenta duplo interesse nesta pesquisa. Por um lado, como uma lente de observação , ela nos oferece diversos recursos para investigar e compreender a construção e uso de artefatos computacionais, seus significados e seus papéis no processo de comunicação. Por outro lado, um melhor entendimento sobre o processo completo que resulta, em última análise, na experiência do usuário durante a interação com o software é relevante para a evolução da própria teoria. Ou seja, esta pesquisa produziu mais conhecimento sobre as condições de comunicação e mútuo entendimento daqueles que, segundo a teoria, comunicam sua intenção e princípios de design através da interface , uma fonte potencialmente valiosa de explicações sobre problemas de comunicabilidade em IHC. / [en] Software development is a highly collaborative process where software construction is the common goal. It is supported at several stages by computer tools, including software modeling tools. Models are important artifacts of the software development process and constitute the focus of this research, which aims to investigate the communicability of software models produced and consumed with the support of modeling tools. Software model communicability is the capacity that such artifacts have of carrying and effecting a communication process among people, or of being used as an instrument to perform a significant part of such process. Modeling tools have a direct impact in that communicability, since model s producers and consumers interact with those tools throughout the software development process. During that interaction, software models, which are intellectual artifacts, are created, changed, evolved, transformed and shared by people involved in activities of specification, analysis, design and implementation of the software under development. Besides the influence of tools, software modeling also needs to take into consideration previously defined notations as premises for modeling activities. This research is an investigation on how tools and notations influence and support the intellectual process of production and consumption of software models. We have Semiotic Engineering as our guiding theory given the essence of it that is: a careful study of tools people interact with to build, use and publish models through which they coordinate teamwork. The use of models in the software development process is a phenomenon that includes several factors that cannot be isolated from each other. Therefore, we propose a Tool-Notation-People triplet (TNP triplet) as a means of articulation to characterize observed issues about models in the software development. Along with the TNP triplet, we introduce a method that combines semiotic and cognitive perspectives to evaluate software modeling tools, producing data about the emission of designer-user metacommunication, users in this case being software developers. We aim to track potential relations between the human-computer interaction experience of those involved in the software development process while creating/reading/editing models with: (a) the product (types of models) generated in the process; and (b) the interpretations that such models evoke when used effectively in everyday practical situations to communicate and express ideas and understandings. The interest of working with Semiotic Engineering in this research is twofold. First, as an observation lens, the theory offers many resources to investigate and understand the construction and use of computational artifacts, their meanings and roles in the communication process. Second, a better perspective about the complete process that results, ultimately, in the user experience during the interaction with the software is relevant for the theory s own evolution. In other words, this research has produced further knowledge about the communication conditions and mutual understanding of those who, according to the theory, communicate their intent and design principles through the interface, a potentially valuable source of explanations about communication problems in HCI.

En la presente investigación, se propone un nuevo método de diseño para un sistema de aislamiento en la base de una estructura, aprovechando el creciente periodo de diseño que se viene dando en los últimos 20 años. Para el diseño de este sistema pasivo, se emplearon dichos periodos altos para optimizar el concepto de transmisibilidad, cuyo propósito es solucionar el problema del excesivo desplazamiento de la base de una estructura aislada, el cual es mayor al desplazamiento del suelo, si no hay una consideración a esta variable. El modelo estructural trabajado corresponde a un edificio de 10 pisos, el cual está representado por un grado de libertad por nivel, debido a que son infinitamente rígidos en su plano, además supone permanecer en el rango elástico bajo las excitaciones sísmicas. Para poder trabajar con el concepto de transmisibilidad, todo el análisis matemático se realizó en el dominio de la frecuencia. Morales (2010) concluyó que los sismos son de banda angosta (0 - 1.6 Hz) para los desplazamientos y que existe una frecuencia límite inferior (0.05 Hz), dato que servirá para el diseño. Por otro lado, se emplearon aisladores del tipo HDRB adicionado con amortiguadores viscosos, para alcanzar un medio-alto coeficiente de amortiguación. Con todas las variables planteadas, se realizaron las matrices que posteriormente servirán para integrarlas en una programación de Matlab que, en conjunto con la excitación sísmica seleccionada, ayudará a verificar el rango de reducción de desplazamiento debido al método de diseño propuesto. La data sísmica seleccionada fue de California (USA), Perú y Chile. / In the present research, a new design method is proposed for a basal isolation system for structures, taking advantage of the growing design period that has occurred in the last 20 years. For the design of this passive system, these high periods were used and also the concept of transmissibility, whose purpose is to solve the problem of excessive base displacement of the isolated structure, which is greater than the ground displacement. The structural model worked on corresponds to a 10-story building, which is represented by one degree of freedom per level, due to they are infinitely rigid in their plane, it also supposes to remain in the elastic range under seismic excitations. To work on transmissibility’s concept, all the mathematical analysis was carried out in the frequency domain. Morales (2010) concluded that earthquakes are narrow band (0-10 rad/s) for displacements and that there is a lower limit frequency (0.05 Hz), data that will serve for the design. On the other hand, HDRB isolators, added with viscous dampers, were used to achieve a high damping coefficient. With all the variables found, the matrices were made that will later be used to integrate them into a program that, with the selected seismic excitation, will help to verify the range of displacement reduction due to the proposed design method. The seismic data chosen were from California (USA), Peru and Chile. / Tesis