著者

水野 勝仁

出版者

日本社会情報学会

雑誌

日本社会情報学会全国大会研究発表論文集 日本社会情報学会 第23回全国大会

巻号頁・発行日

pp.72-77, 2008 (Released:2010-02-10)

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Alan Kay created a slogan for development of user interfaces: Doing with Images makes Symbols. This reveals the essence of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) which millions of people now use all over the world. This paper examines how GUI, based on Kay's slogan, has changed our communication with the computer. In order to explore this topic, I focus on Azuma and Turkle's argument of "interface value" intuit for thinking about the relationship between our action and new sign surfaces. Next, Kay's slogan is considered from the viewpoint of its formation process. Finally, I refer to Sperber and Wilson's Relevance theory. I conclude that GUI demands that we, along with computers, act for ostensive-inferential communication in a mutual cognitive environment.