Magical realities in interaction design
Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen · 2013
The field of interaction design is littered with examples of artefacts, which seemingly do not adhere to well-known physical causalities and our innate expectations of how artefacts should behave in the world, thereby creating the impression of a magic reality; where things can float in mid-air, the usually inanimate TV can become animate, two separate objects can become physically connected, and we can move objects with our mind. The paper presents Subbotsky's [21] four types of magical causalities: mind-over-matter magic, animation magic, nonpermanence magic and sympathetic magic, as a way to reflect upon the magical realities constructed by technological artefacts.