Ethics Board Game for Exploring the Boundaries in Multidisciplinary Projects

We present a board game prototype for discussing ethics in participatory workshops for technologically oriented projects. The board game acts as an artefact through which the participants can explore various boundaries found in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary projects. It was designed to facilitate the discussion on ethical issues related to themes of Motivations, Community, Cultural context, Personal reflections, and Technological choices. We describe the iterative design process of making the game and the results of a playtest with users. Overall, we report positive feedback on how the participants appreciated the game and perceived it as helpful in discussing ethics. Finally, we propose how the created game can be used to facilitate the discussion of ethical issues, giving everyone a voice in different settings and discussing various themes.