Designing a Bulletin Board-Type Art Game for the Collection and Resolution of Conflict

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new type of bulletin board game designed for the collection and resolution of various types of conflict or personal concerns that can occur in organizations or groups. Particularly, we focus on visualization of conflicts that students may encounter in schools. In the proposed bulletin board game, individual problems and suggested solutions form a set of clusters consisting of cards with images and texts. We exemplify three aspects that the players can choose when attaching a card for clustering - shape, color, and typeface. We envisage that our game design can promote players’ interactions, and contribute to inducing positive aspects of games, as well as visualizing the players’ problems through design.