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Otherworld: Ouija Board as a Resource for Design
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Media and Information Technology. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1153-1491
Tampere University. (Gamification Group)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8655-5327
2019 (English)In: Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 / [ed] Joel E Fischer, Sarah Martindale, Martin Porcheron, Stuart Reeves, Jocelyn Spence, New York, NY, USA: ACM Publications, 2019, article id 4Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The Ouija board is a device to contact spirits from the so-called otherworld. Although it is considered paranormal activity, the way it works rests on ideomotor actions and we argue that the Ouija is a resource for design for the following aspects: It is a 1) collective tangible exploration tool operated by two or more people through a physical pointer that moves, seemingly on its own, around the letters to probe meanings by composing messages. It has been used by artists as a medium offering 2) creative stimulation to generate material and develop ideas for their work. The Ouija also enables people to express nonconscious knowledge, as research suggests, and thus can provide 3) access to tacit dimension. In this paper, we present the Otherworld Framework that describes its principal elements and provide speculations on how to exploit them in design for collaborative, engaging and unconventional group interactions.

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New York, NY, USA: ACM Publications, 2019. article id 4
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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Keywords [en]
nonconscious, tacit knowledge, ideomotor, co-design, decision making, paranormal, automatism, wearable, VR, ouija, design research, participatory design, creativity, ideation
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Other Engineering and Technologies Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162015DOI: 10.1145/3363384.3363388ISI: 000525639500004ISBN: 978-1-4503-7203-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-162015DiVA, id: diva2:1370734
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Halfway to the Future Symposium
Available from: 2019-11-17 Created: 2019-11-17 Last updated: 2025-02-25

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