@techreport{TR-IC-98-42,
  number = {IC-98-42},
  author = {Osvaldo Luiz de Oliveira e M. Cecília Calani Baranauskas},
  title = {Interface Understood as Communicating Entities - {A} Semiotic Perspective},
  month = {December},
  year = {1998}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 11 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      Some proposals based on Semiotics are being addressed in HCI
      literature as a complement to the traditional cognitive
      approaches to interface design. In such approaches the interface
      is understood as a collection of messages sent by the designer
      to the user. This paper discusses the main Semiotic proposals to
      software design and proposes a new understanding for interface
      design which makes explicit the communication among the entities
      that inhabit the interface. The proposal is illustrated by
      observing results of users in game playing situation.
  }
}