The interface: body extension or a space to communication. Metaphors that overlap

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Silvia Pérez
Patricia Bustamante
Álvaro Fernando Gutierrez
Betty Martínez
Eliécer Pinto Dueñas
Nelson Oswaldo Ramírez Mora
Sandra Nieto Useche

Abstract

This article begins recognizing the interactions set up by human beings at different environments. It points out the third environment as the space where subjects experience different daily routines mediated by ICTs which have created social transformations. The interface is based in the third environment and is the matter discusses here. In the first part is clarified what the interface is; thus, the collective construction of the concept is a provocation. Then, it is explained the origin and evolution of the concept from 60’s to current days. It is conclude that communication is acknowledgement; however, it is advice that virtual languages, narratives, and knowledge can become in other ways of exclusion and marginalization that must be the subject of a thoughtful academic consideration which benefit the democratic advance of cultures.

Keywords:
Interface, third environment, ICTs, information, communication, culture.