Structure of Sensory Signals: Icons and Messages

In this chapter, the motivations behind CogInfoCom channels are discussed. As a first step towards their formal development, a unified view is provided of the structural elements that have in the past been used in interfaces designed for various (human) sensory systems. It is demonstrated that not only are these structural elements analogous to each other, and therefore amenable to conceptual unification, but that their interpretation can also be extended to the artificial modalities of any kind of cognitive entity in general.