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Advances in the past few decades have led to a radical transformation in how healthcare systems, communities, and individuals approach the concepts of well-being, health, and disease. Today, it is possible to access an infinite amount of data with the potential to diagnose, predict, prevent, and personalize disease treatment. The digital transformation generates a huge demand for the development and management of health information systems. At the same time, effective communication of medical information is one of the critical points for the person-centred care approach, to generate value and reduce waste. In the face of complex social challenges, interprofessional collaboration between design and health is already seen as indispensable. With the aim of contributing to the debate on information design for health in Brazil, this paper presents an overview of the area, discusses the current challenges of the health sector and the synergies with information design. It concludes that participatory approaches, performance evaluations and a greater link between information design and service design are important for the creation of more sustainable collaboration strategies between the areas, to increase the social impact of design research in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To identify the relationships that emerge from the use of outdoor advertising in the urban landscape, to involve the state of the art of research on the subject and cover the topic of regulatory guidelines of outdoor media in the urban landscape, an integrative literature review - RIL from scientific articles indexed in the Scopus, Web of Science - WOS and EBSCO databases was carried on and presented in this paper. The search in the three databases retrieved 463 documents, from which the classification was performed, considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, left 16 articles for full content extraction. As a result, the frequency with which the subjects appeared in the papers allowed the systematization of the content addressed in 4 main themes, described below: 1) The outdoor media as a generator of environmental pollution, in particular its contribution to urban visual pollution; 2) Methods for planning and managing outdoor media in the landscape: survey and cataloguing; 3) Guidelines and regulations for outdoor media exposure in the urban landscape; and 4) a new look at outdoor advertising, in the latter case, with a look at sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro campus has the privilege of having two projects from the most important Brazilian landscape designer, Roberto Burle Marx. This paper is part of a broader research aiming at the preservation and restoration of Burle Marx's landscape project for the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, acknowledging its relevance as a heritage which represents part of his scholarly legacy for the city of Rio de Janeiro. For this paper, the research explores the didactic potential of the trees and palms listed for the original landscape project, recognizing their value as a laboratory for architecture students. It looks at the graphic representation of the original landscape project, in which concepts and techniques of visual rhetoric were applied to help in the design of a graphic repertoire for the presentation of Burle Marx's work. The study brings forward a set of information in a new way, concerning the trees and palms listed in the original project. This new graphic representation enables the framing of an exploratory environment, whose visualization of botanical information becomes a tool from which students can analyze, interpret and produce new meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents, from the Information Design perspective, an analytical study of requirements elicitation techniques based on graphical representations. The objective of this study is to investigate the features of techniques that enable the elaboration of graphical representations in the requirements elicitation process for software development. This research has an applied nature, with descriptive objectives, as it adopts the method of literature review in order to develop and apply a protocol for analyzing requirements elicitation techniques. As a result, the following are presented: (1) classification of techniques according to the characteristics analyzed by the protocol, (2) suggestion of two new patterns of information organization, and (3) expectations regarding the characteristics of a functional requirements elicitation tool based on visual artifacts that can be developed in another project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the process of elaborating a set of 23 guidelines for the design of LMS interfaces, aimed at students with visual impairment. The guidelines were developed in a collaborative and user-centered manner, with the collaboration of 12 students with visual impairment (of different levels), 3 specialists in accessibility and 5 web developers and designers. From the survey of students' needs, the accessibility specialists generated a navigation protocol for students with low vision, which allowed them to identify their difficulties. From this, the set of guidelines was successively refined in a collaborative manner between accessibility specialists and designers and programmers, resulting in the set presented at the end of this paper. Although most of the guidelines listed in this research are not new in terms of interface design, the fact that they have been grouped around the needs of users with visual impairment is an advance, as it facilitates the use of these guidelines by developers who are not subject matter experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With advances in the digital age, terms such as user experience and interaction design have been widely used. The objective of this paper is to evaluate trends in the use of the terminologies "user experience" and "interaction design" by academic authors, analyzing the most relevant elements in the elaboration of academic articles in the areas of innovation and design. This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the terms: User Experience (UX) and Design Interaction (IxD) used in a wide range of study areas such as: Design, Artificial Intelligence and Applied Social Sciences. The term "user experience" gathers the conceptual elements that compose product-functionality and product- information, whereas "interaction design" comprises more specifically the interaction between human and product. The Bibliometrix software was used for data collection and research fulfillment. The study identifies trends in publications over the past ten years, the occurrence and relationship between keywords, the most cited publications and the countries that have most used such terminology in academic publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropomorphism is an extremely important aesthetic resource in animation film that attributes human characteristics to non-human objects, events, animals, or fantasy characters. Its diffusion was due to the ease that this technique allows to communicate and create empathy between the audience and the character, mainly through facial expressions. However, despite being important, most of the studies related to the constructive techniques of these resources are present in the Comics literature or in the documentation of two-dimensional (2d) animation processes. Few are the sources that address the structural form and configuration of facial expressions in three- dimensional (3D) anthropomorphic characters, a factor that would bring considerable contribution to professionals working with animation or character design, due to the wide dissemination of 3D representation technologies in film projects. In this way, this paper aims to understand and document how facial expressions are created in anthropomorphic characters using 3D modeling techniques, thus being able to serve as a constructive script. The methodology adopted was bibliographic research, addressing principles of human facial expression and fundamentals of 3D modeling, followed by a case study on the basic configuration of 3D meshes to generate the facial expressions if used of Studio Disney characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an applied research related to the usability evaluation of the official web site of the Brazilian Ergonomics Association. The main objective was to identify usability problems and other issues for improving the interface. For this purpose, a Heuristic Evaluation (AE) was carried out with specialists and a Usability Test (UT), followed by a debriefing and, finally, a satisfaction questionnaire were performed in a group of users. It was found that, in general, the two methods (AE and UT) are complementary, as they identify in addition to several similar problems, some problems that each of the techniques alone will not allow. Also, it was verified that specialistas and the group of users noted fragilities and inadequacies aesthetics on the ABERGO'S website. Finally, as of AE and UT results and all solutions pointed by specialists were listed some guidelines considering basically the user experience to redesign the ABERGO'S website interface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the beginning of the 19th century, Brazil has housed type foundries qualified to manufacture or commercialize all types of material used at printing workshops, among them the Fundição de Typos Henrique Rosa, from Rio de Janeiro, and Funtimod - Fundição de Tipos Modernos, from São Paulo. Recently, the two authors of this paper have developed researches with interest in the carioca firm. While Edna Lucia Cunha Lima was interested in the story of the Rosa family, Isabella Ribeiro Aragão intended to answer commercial questions raised during her doctoral research on Funtimod. This paper, therefore, aims to contribute to the history of typography in Brazil by the results of the studies carried out, respectively, in Rio de Janeiro and Recife. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines three general type specimens issued by the Neufville Type Foundry (1885-1995). The paper departs from the usual format of most such studies on the history of type and graphic design, which address subjects such as the identification and analysis of type or offer appraisals of specimen books' compositional virtues, and focuses instead on a modest examination of the prelims. Characterised by both their technical basis and their commercial purpose, the prelims offer valuable data for revisiting (and reconstructing) the history of printing and typography understood as a discipline. They deal with matters that may no longer be as widely appreciated or relevant as they once were--the adoption of type systems, bills of type, etc.--but nonetheless illustrate stages in the development and decline of Neufville in particular and of the traditional printing trade in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of graphic representations aimed to understand the form of structuring and relationship used in the compositions. For this end, from a literature review, a graphic analysis of ten procedure representations was performed. The analysis was based on syntactic and semantic variables from Engelhardt's (2002) theory of graphic syntax, contemplating representations of different levels of complexity. The data was analyzed quantitatively, identifying elements and relationships used in this type of representation. The results contributed to identification of useful requirements for the development of procedural representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we argue that books materialize cultural values and constitute a field of political and social dispute. We disregard the idea of typographic transparency and emphasize its semantic dimension, in order to understand the use of typography in book covers. Thus, we identified contrasts in common sense gender performativity and performativity present in feminist book covers. Finally, we realized a survey with women regarding semantic values assigned, firstly, to letterforms alone and, then, to letterforms in designed covers of five contemporary feminist books. Based on the survey results mainly made of semantic differential scales, we present the variety of confluences and divergences of interpretations of letterforms. Despite the diversity of results, none of the covers leans towards the hegemonic gender performativity staged in common sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins by presenting a framework for the analysis of graphic organization of texts based in the observation of verbal language editions - the so called textual graphic tools -, as with the theoretical basis employed in its development. It is used to understand the configuration of handwriting in three contexts: the writing of teachers and children in elementary school; in notetaking by Graphic Design undergraduate students; and, at last, the colorful notes shared on Instagram by the Studygram community. Results show that, despite their training, Design students notes display similar strategies to the school ones, while notes created by studygrammers have a wider range of solutions than the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In times when newspaper is a source of discouragement and disinterest among jo "La capa de papel" tells the story of the covers of some medical device manuals that are important communication means but present reading, usability, layout and content problems. Seventeen covers of hearing aid manuals made by manufacturers (7 digital, 10 printed) were collected and analyzed according to size, support type, personalization, number of devices per manual, focus and image type. Results showed that none of the covers exhibited personalization-related elements and final sizes are smaller than recommended. For printed manuals, paper type problems were detected (n = 4). Thirteen manuals contemplated more than one device. The majority (n = 12) exhibited figurative images, of which 10 focused on the devices. Authors suggest increasing the size of the materials, including personalization elements and providing one manual per model. It's up to the designer the improvement of these materials from a graphic and informational point of view, in order to promote empathy, interaction and getting the reader's attention [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this paper is to present a comparative study between the cities of São Paulo and Rome, and how these cities are dealing with different types of urban outdoor advertising (Out-Of-Home media) in its regulations, since these regulations shapes the way commercial information are placed in the landscape. The information design depends, mainly, on the support it will be placed. Outdoor advertising has a strong impact on the urban landscape. Since the Clean City Law was implanted in São Paulo, several Brazilian cities have been encouraged to implement (or modify) regulations in this sense. In order to contribute to this discussion, a parallel between the city of São Paulo, a business city, and the city of Rome, strongly oriented to the tourism encouraged by its historical heritage, mainly architectonic, are presented in this paper. The results shown consider only the documental analysis (of the normative legislation, maps and publications pertinent to the subject) which formed the basis for the evaluation of the landscape, and not the evaluation of the landscape itself. It refers to the initial stage of the research. Its character is, therefore, descriptive and the comparison established between the different case studies aims to foment the discussion around the paths followed by the cities to deal with the spread and diversity of the OOH media nowadays. It was observed that although the city of Rome is mainly oriented to tourism and the profiteering of the aesthetic quality of its landscape, it is more permissive in relation to the presence of different types of OOH media in the urban landscape than the city of São Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the classification of multimedia infographics as a new journalistic genre, more specifically, a genre of online journalism. This classification is based on the multimedia features of infographics in question, especially with respect to the interactive possibilities of this new kind of journalistic narrative that differ from traditional print narratives. The research is based on references such as Ramón Salaverría, Rafael Cores, Valero Sancho, José de Pablos, Carlos Abreu Sojo and the Brazilians Beatriz Ribas and Tattiana Teixeira, who have studied the issue and define the infographics as a new journalistic genre. From this finding, this paper points to the specificity of multimedia infographics as a genre of online journalism, highlighting its main features as multimediality, hypertextuality, non-linear and interactive narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the new coronavirus pandemic, the need for discussion around the theme "risk communication" was expanded. The reflection on making design and the adoption of processes that encompass the specificities of this theme in this context has become urgent. Thus, this paper presents a design process established from theories and discussions held with undergraduate students. To this end, three steps were taken: [1] "raising awareness" of students with the theme, [2] "proposing" a process pertinent to risk communication, performed based on the analysis of different design processes and principles and [3] "reflection" about the difficulties on the project making from the established process. As a result, a procedural structure with potential for use in risk communication design was obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Packaging design involves many variables ranging from its conformation to accommodate products to the visual information diagrammed in its structure. From these configurations, it is important to recognize the informational aspects printed on these packages and the way they are perceived by users, both in relation to perception and in relation to the understanding of their handling. It is in this sense that the need to understand the visual affordance of the visual instructions contained in packages is highlighted, taking samples of fast food products as samples. Thus, this paper reports the results of a scientific initiation project that analyzed aspects of syntax, ergonomics and visual affordance in a group of eight samples, with the information design as the main analytical basis. In order to do so, the results of the data collection discussed in literature review set criteria for the selection of these samples and, mainly, guidelines for their analysis. Finally, the article demonstrates the resulting analysis and discusses the results obtained. At the end of the article are presented the final considerations about the project and indicated future procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study based on the collection of samples from the typographic repertoire used in the commercial almanacs printed by Typographia Imparcial de Marques & Irmão between 1857 and 1862. The main purpose of the research was a better understanding of São Paulo visual culture. As a result, 11 typefaces were found, which allowed to verifying how the typographic repertoire of this printing shop evolved in 5 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper demonstrates a methodological proposal used to inventory quantitatively and qualitatively capixaba magazines found in the three main public collections from Espírito Santo. The inventory was planned to present systemized and concise data in order to facilitate the usage of those magazines as data collection sources in later researches from distinct fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate cognitive aspects of Information Design that should be considered in the design of eHealth environments, taking into account the degrees of health literacy of the communities to which they are intended. The characteristics of eHealth, the relationships between health and technology and the studies in Information Design related to the thematic are related, in convergence with Information Science. The provision of health information in both analogue and digital media does not necessarily mean a change in self-care and prevention habits due to the different degrees of health literacy of the people who access it. There are specific aspects in the provision of health information on the Web that should be taken into account in the Design of eHealth environments. This type of information must be presented and represented according to criteria and guidelines specifically geared to these environments, which are derived from studies that consider the cognitive load and degree of health literacy required for the processing of certain information formats in the communicational process in this context. Certain factors, such as the lack of jargon and the format of the text, the use of graphic resources in the presentation and representation of information and audio-visual modalities require less cognitive effort in information processing and are therefore more appropriate for people with different levels of health literacy. We present as a result a conceptual map with recommendations focused on the textual and graphic contents for the Information Design of eHealth environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monograms, inscriptions, ornaments and representations of graphic elements were recurring features and constituents of the undergarments of the early twentieth century. This paper aims to present considerations about the visual communication found on this type of artifact between 1900 and 1930. To achieve such, three-dimensional pieces, catalogs and periodicals from the archive of the National Museum of the Costume, in Lisbon - Portugal, were analyzed. In this sense, from the three-dimensional sources, associated with textual and iconographic sources, this study sought to present the multiple forms and uses of visual communication in undergarments, such as types of inscription, location of representations and marks on the pieces, as well as to discuss questions symbolic and historical factors that determine the importance of these characteristics in the configuration of clothing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a set of methodological procedures for design history research from the analysis of printed materials. During years of work, the research team of the Laboratory of Design: History and Typography (LadHT), from the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, located in the Southeast of Brazil, reviewed, refined and developed different methodological strategies in order to investigate the local design history. This paper aims to presents the lab methodology, comment some applied experiences of the method and also discusses the contribution of information design to the design history research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In It is the right of the blind to have access to university and to public office. To do so, selective processes need to adapt to meet this demand. The National High School Exam - ENEM, which is growing exponentially and ensuring access to many higher education - is available to the blind candidate to test Braille and ledor, volunteer candidate to transcribe answers, essays, and to describe images for the blind candidates. However, several complaints about the performance of this volunteer add up, especially with regard to the subjective description of figures. Considering the maps as great importance in the examination of images, occurring in at least 5 per issue, the question is: how to improve the design of maps contained evidence of Brazilian inclusive public selection processes, so that their oral description is accurate to blind candidates? Through the recommendations on the use of the graphical variables of Bertin (1983), together with the recommendations of the area of Accessibility, and the opinions of two volunteers who have acted as ENEM lenders, this paper proposes recommendations for the elaboration of maps to be described orally to blind candidates on the exam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article approaches the construction of an infographic related to the project entitled "Caixa de Ossos", which consists on the creation of an educational game for human anatomy teaching. It is described in the development of an infographic referred to the digitalization of the anatomical parts included in the game considering the knowledge field Infodesign. The process is described in the following topics: (1) Introduction; (2) Motivation; (3) Planning and development. This paper seeks out to condense the most relevant project parts in a simple and legible way. The information was organized in a linear way, with numbered elements to facilitated reading. It was chosen to develop own illustrations instead of original photographs to maintain visual unit and avoid possible confusion or visual pollution. The objectives on the creation of the material are informing the readers regarding the main article exposed theme; include other professionals and students regarding the anatomical pieces' digitalization method. The infographic would also have the function of clarifying the themes and proceedings to the reader prior the complete analysis of the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to highlight the benefits of applying card sorting techniques and performance testing for improve digital products. A case study was developed at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) with the creation of the monitoring module in the campus system, aka ecampus. This study was directed with support of the project E methodology (MEURER and SZABLUK, 2012), that was divided in four steps: (1) strategy, (2) scope, structure and skeleton, (3) aesthetics and (4) execution. As result we had a better understanding about the needs of users utilizing classification and labeling. This information allowed us to create a better user experience: a interface that communicates with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While exploring an environment, every individual experiences a natural space oriented process known as wayfinding. Through this process are considered internal factors - those in which we rely from our human condition, and external factors - the stimuli provided by the environment itself. Due to the understanding that only the external factors can be designed and manipulated, we analyze in this paper both of its dimensions - Architecture and Design - while influencing and collaborating aspects of the individual navigating and orientation process. These findings are put together by practical perspective through a proposition of an evaluation instrument towards wayfinding in environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to contribute with theoretical framework for the guidelines to control commercial signs in urban landscape, considering the overload condition of information and stimuli in the landscape of the urban commercial centers in medium and big cities. This exploratory research of qualitative approach applied 67 interviews to subjects, shared between 7 experts and 60 users in three different settings. The research was done in these three settings in the city of São Paulo, analyzed in a context post implementation of the Clean City Law (Law 14.223/06), that control in a more strict way commercial sings and prohibited outdoor advertisement as billboards. Results present a positive perception from the subjects interviewed about the enforcement of the law, and permitted a contribution in the development and synthesis of guidelines to control commercial signs in urban landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a pilot study, together with a critical investigation of the semantic structure of the discourse in scientific papers, which have been published at conferences and in journals in the area of information design. The procedure involved the analysis of ten articles in Portuguese, with themes related to information design involving methodologies for non-projective scientific procedures. The main objective was to expose the strengths and weaknesses of the relationship between the discourse of the planned objectives, the methodologies used and the conclusions drawn by the researchers at the end of their experiments. To this end, two distinct analytical tools were employed: the semantic differential scale, developed in 1957, and the semantic analysis software - Tropes 8.4 (2013). These tools have demonstrated that there is weakness in both the transmission of ideas and structural coherence amongst the majority of the observed texts, indicating the need for special attention when specifying clear objectives and in selecting the most appropriate methodologies for the desired objectives, thus promoting consistent conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, aiming at understanding the different definitions of innovation in the design domain, mapped all of its citations in one of the journals that best reflects its research state of art. This quantitative and qualitative exploratory study was conducted by using a variant of content analysis technique and the network analysis technique. Based on the 13 appropriate papers found, 163 semantic categories were discerned and fully connected in a network composed of 8 clusters. According to this framework, innovation in the design domain refers primarily to the socially accepted alternatives adopted by companies to tackle the present problems and the future risks, especially through the development of new tailor-made products to satisfy market needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents part of the research "Pelotas Typographic Landscapes: An exploratory study of the typography in the urban space". The study aims to investigate the different occurrences of typographic landscapes in certain urban areas of the city of Pelotas / RS to better understanding of typography as a historical and cultural information. The research is based on studies of 'typographic landscapes' that have been developed in recent years in several Brazilian cities, which presents methods for collecting, processing and analysis of typography data in the urban space. Therefore, the methodology adopted is based on the indications of investigative process already started in this field, such as the establishment of routes and field research records, making adaptations necessary to context. This paper presents samples of survey from two typographical categories performed in a specific region, in addition to the proposed adjustment to the structure of cataloguing and analysis record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spatial orientation in hospitals users are faced with different barriers in the information seek that helps them to find the desired places. For the design of wayfinding systems, the understanding of such barriers can subsidize the generation of design requirements. As a means of assiting this understanding, this paper proposes to verify which variables are identified by users of hospital environments in the search and use of information during the wayfinding. For this, it was initially described aspects of the spatial orientation process, located the graphic-informational artifacts as cognitive inputs and presented the intervening variables in the informational behaviour seek. Following interviews were conducted with users, in hospitals, to verify the interfering aspects in the wayfinding. The results pointed to the main barriers related to the verbal and visual information sources, showing the potential of the data obtained in the generation requirements for wayfinding systems design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the experience between the years of 2014 and 2016 with the infographics teaching project entitled "Pensar Infográfico" (Thinking Infographics). For this, is presented a brief review of the literature, and then is proposed a structural model of an infographics introductory course. This course has a theoretical background in information design and, more specifically, the graphic language. The presented approach seeks to highlight the contributions of information design on teaching infographics. In this way, it is hoped to promote discussions and reflections on theory, production, and uses of infographics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accessibility in education of blind people is a right that must be fulfilled. Considering that information design aims to transmit an information in an effective way to the receiver, and that a static image needs to be adapted so that a blind student can have access to this visual content, it is proposed a way to translate the visual information to the tactile sense. The purpose of this paper is to present a translating model of static two-dimensional images into three-dimensional tactile images. First, it starts from a brief literature review about blindness, tactile perception and tactile images. Second, it presents the translating model in three sections: (1) literature recommendations; (2) structure and (3) finished model for testing. Then, it describes the tests with the model and two designers with digital modelling abilities (potential users). As a result from the tests, two distinct models were obtained, one using elevation and other using textures, although, both participants successfully made the intended task. Also from the test results, it was possible to perceive flaws on the model that need to be adjusted for the next steps of the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the development of a data visualization about a research on the spatial distribution of public parks in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is an interdisciplinary work, in the interface between Visual Communication, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. Based on data visualization, the work aims to create a graphic solution able of revealing spatialities, social relationships and dynamics, raising discussions about the main aspects that influence park location within the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many people of color who struggle against racism have used internet as a means to exercise their citizenship and political activism. One example of this is the capillary transition Facebook status and posts that are a result of the black resistance against the white standard of beauty. In this paper, we will analyze the generation of meaning of the discourse of a Facebook status that shows the results of a capillary transition made by a person of color. Using the discursive semiotics, we comprehended that this status presents a valuation of blackness, by giving a new meaning, this time positive, to the origins and to the phenotypes of the people of color. Furthermore, we noticed that the discourse on the virtual environment imposes itself out to the material world, because this status also aims to manipulate others to positively value and accept the diacritic features of the black race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global landscape of contemporary scientific publication is characterized by the existence of open access journals that provide results of scientific research in a free and unrestricted manner, through various formats of digital files. Given the multiplicity of access devices, multi-format publication is needed and highlights the importance of adequate information design, as the form of the message influences its perception. In this context, this study aims to analyse the information design in different digital formats of scientific publishing in open access. To this end, a qualitative analysis of a scientific paper in three digital file formats, PDF, HTML and EPUB, was carried out. This procedure took place from the principles of information design brought by Lipton (2007). As result, it was observed that the PDF format presented legibility problems, compromising the principle of clarity. Moreover, in HTML and EPUB formats weaknesses were identified in the principle of hierarchy. On the other hand, there was compliance with the principles of hierarchy and segmentation in PDF format, compliance with the principle of balance and eye flow in the HTML file and the conformity of the principle of clarity in the ePUB version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses about redesign process on website interface of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It was applied the participatory design approach, that involved the users in the design process, through the next techniques: interface prototyping, surveys, personas, also the exploratory navigation to detect interface problems. The website was evaluated before and after the intervention on its graphical interface, with users from the institution and external to, that evaluated according to criteria proposed for this research: (c1) content value perception, (c2) findability of content, (c3) performance and (c4) informational density. The first results obtained point to increasing of the full satisfaction levels of users about the research criteria, in comparison to partial satisfaction levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a methods and techniques evaluation for spatial cognitive data collect of users applicable in wayfinding systems for healthcare. From a literature review, 25 methods/techniques were evaluated by 45 professionals (designers and architects) through an online questionnaire. A quantitative and qualitative analysis allowed to identify professionals practices as well as methods and techniques potentially aplicable with user data collect, in the initial phase of design process. This article aimed to provide methodological contributions to the increment of the wayfinding systems, benefiting both developers and the information end user. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a research carried out with education professionals in a deaf bilingual school in Portugal. The respondents were deaf and hearing educators and the research aimed to collect data leading to the proposal of a learning management system's interface design strategy accessible to deaf students. This paper also presents data related to the potential of Moodle platform. Understanding that the development of accessible applications implies the knowledge of context and culture of the target audience, this paper aimed to collect relevant data from the interviews, for the improvement of those environments. This research demonstrates that the major problems in the environment are not concerning to the platform, but related with issues of interface and content management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper verifies the digital accessibility in the Portal Brazil. Therefore, it starts with a brief review on the normative for digital accessibility at national and international levels and uses a checklist suggested by e-MAG in order to verify the accessibility of the Portal. In addition, the WCAG 2.0 recommendations on the Portal are verified. The results indicate that none of the four items discriminated at the checklist could be totally verified. Neither was the recommendations listed in the WCAG 2.0 document where the guidelines time based media, adaptable and keyboard access need more attention. Therefore, this paper alerts for the urge of interface projects based on the direct participation of the potential users to minimize errors applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the relationships among readers, books and public policies for readers' education based on the presentation of the concept of Design in Reading and the reflection on the role of Design in literature books targeted at children and young people that are recognized by public policies. The methodology involved the graphic analysis of books that were selected by the National Program of School Libraries (Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola - PNBE) for young students at the last years of Basic Education. This analysis resulted in proposals that aim at contributing to the consolidation of Design as an interdisciplinary field in national guidelines for reading promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the first part of a research, which studies chromolithographic labels of Brazilian products, emphasizing technical and projectual strategies on their execution. We will first present Ephemera and Brazilian Graphic Memory - areas of study in connection with this research, and also describe the chromolithography technique. We will identify two institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro that hold this kind of artifact - Fundação Biblioteca Nacional and Arquivo Nacional - describing their collection of chromolithographed labels. A selection of 100 labels, based on the graphic elaboration of the material, constitutes the research corpus. A first approach of this corpus is based on the identification of two sets: labels for luxury consumption and labels for popular consumption. By this framing, we will develop preliminary analysis of the graphic-technical approach - emphasizing their color construction - and their iconographic strategies, highlighting the presence of Brazilian's iconographic elements on the labels for popular consumption and European themes on the ones for luxury consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comics and picturebooks have very distinct scholarship traditions that yet arrive at very similar statements regarding their objects due to their formal likeness. We shall argue that both work according to the same medium, that of the graphic narratives, and this paper aids the dialogue between comic studies and children's literature scholarship, as well as drawing concepts from art criticism in order to distinguish between the medium's parameters and conventions. At last, we shall propose parameters for the analysis of graphic narratives at large, based on the more fruitful aspects of each scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents and discusses some applications of fundamental concepts from epigraphy to the study of typography in urban landscape. Epigraphy is part of archaeology, more precisely of the field of palaeography. It studies inscriptions, ancient writing on enduring materials (such as stone, metal, clay, wax.), including deciphering, dating and interpretation of their messages. The paper proposes the application of epigraphic procedures to the study of modern inscriptions, figuring the names of architects and constructors found on the façades of buildings in São Paulo city historical centre. It demonstrates, therefore, how those concepts may be applied to the development of more precise methods of data gathering, systematization and cataloguing, that may be adopted in information design research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to compare the differences between memory drawing and drawing with mental image stimulation, analyzing the differences and similarities of those processes according to Coutinho's (1998) analytical model. It was made a review on several studies that contributed with that theme. To verify the differences the Darras (1996) experiment was replicated with twenty participants from the Henfil Municipal School - Várzea - Recife. This experiment had two phases, the first involved memory drawing and the second involved drawing with stimulation of mental image. Twelve objects were drawn by the subjects, but on this paper we exemplify those using the star-fish. The methodology used was ethnographical and the data was collected at the school. The data was treated using the Coutinho's (1998) model. The most of the data was examined qualitatively, although some data was treated quantitatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a synthesis of a research that resulted in the elaboration of a guide for interface design analysis, grounded on the areas of Design, HCI and Pedagogy, with the aim of carrying through an evaluation of usability aspects in a distance learning environment. This investigation analysis the role of the designer in enhancing information and communication in educational environments mediated by the internet. With such procedures, the development of interfaces focused on the user and the enhancement of educational environments standards is intended, making distance learning more productive and interactive. The validation of a guide, which is the object of the present paper, was done using the "Oficina Projeto Didático" environment offered by CCEAD (Coordenação Central de Educação a Distância da PUC-Rio). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Activity theory is a relevant framework for the Design field, and their graphic representations are cognitive artifacts that aid the understanding, use and communication of this theory. However, there is a lack of consistency around the graphics and labels used in these representations. Based on this, the aim of this study was to identify, analyze and evaluate these differences and propose a representation that aims to be more suitable for the theory. For this, uses as method a literature review based on Engeström (2001) and its three generations of visual models, combined with graphical analysis of representations collected in a hundred papers from international journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with an analysis of the application of Macedo accessibility guidelines (2010) for the publication of texts on the Web. In this paper, e-government portals were observed, particularly the judiciary, using the Supreme Court site Federal (STF), to verify whether the available material allows people with some kind of visual disability to access it and become aware of its contents. We also used the model of accessibility in Electronic Government eMag, established by the Federal Government, through Decree n. 03 of 07 May 2007.It were also developed the graphical representation of synthesis (RGS) addressed the issue. The analysis was performed from the application of e-government accessibility evaluator ASES (Appraiser and accessibility Simulator Sites), combining their results with the textual guidelines already mentioned. After analyzing the results, it shows a table with errors and recommendations to the portal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper displays the result of the authors' research regarding to the incorporation of Human Error, through design principles, to video game design. In a general way, designers must consider Human Error factors throughout video game interface development; however, when related to its core design, adaptations are in need, since challenge is an important factor for fun and under the perspective of Human Error, challenge can be considered as a flaw in the system. The research utilized Human Error classifications, data triangulation via predictive human error analysis, and the expanded flow theory to allow the design of a set of principles in order to match the design of playful challenges with the principles of Human Error. From the results, it was possible to conclude that the application of Human Error in game design has a positive effect on player experience, allowing it to interact only with errors associated with the intended aesthetics of the game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]