Abstract
Semiotic Engineering is a consolidated HCI theory that perceives an interactive system's interface as a designer-to-user communication. In this context, the relevant quality property to be considered is communicability. Currently, there are two consolidated methods to evaluate the communicability of a system, Communicability Evaluation Method (CEM) and Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM). In this work, our purpose is to formally present the Intermediate Semiotic Inspection Method - ISIM, as a method to evaluate communicability. The ISIM was proposed to allow for the communicability evaluation from the perspective of indirect users. It was described within the context of educational systems, in a case study to analyze the professor's perspective on systems aimed at their students. However, ISIM has been more broadly used in different contexts, and with different participants. In this article our goal is to formally present ISIM, describing the necessary steps to its application. We also present an analysis of the studies that have applied the method. Based on our analysis we discuss how consolidated the ISIM is, and the different aspects it can evaluate in comparison to SIM and CEM.
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