Interfaces gráficas e os seus elementos lúdicos: aproximações para um estudo comunicacional

Abstract

This thesis intends to uncover the relations among the graphical user interfaces, essential communicational devices for a massive use of the contemporary digital technology, and the ludic elements that supposedly composes their aesthetical and operational structures. For the objectives of this research, to explore the operation methods of virtual environments is also an attempt to understand how the humans glance at novel ways to be related with the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and, somehow, facilitate the use of these devices. Through those epistemological suppositions, we can assume indications of proximity between the ludic elements and the elements refrained in the graphical user interfaces that would be in the mixture of these programs. Thereby, we try to develop some premises that bring us some references of a game look-alike ambient in a graphical interface, which would allow us to observe the supposed appearance of these ludical phenomena in computational devices.