Prof Mark Blythe

Professor Mark Blythe

Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

Mark is a design ethnographer working in the field of Human Computer Interaction. His research is concerned with the digital revolution we are stumbling and tumbling through and how this changes the ways we live, work, make art and grow old. He likes to write about himself in the third person, like Caesar. Here is his .

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Key Publications

Diagrams of Uncertainty or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Visual Rhetoric, Sellers, L., Blythe, M. 1 Jul 2024, DIS '24 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
Grand challenges in WaterHCI, Mueller, F., Montoya, M., Pell, S., Oppermann, L., Blythe, M., Dietz, P., Marshall, J., Bateman, S., Smith, I., Ananthanarayan, S., Mazalek, A., Verni, A., Bakogeorge, A., Simonnet, M., Ellis, K., Semertzidis, N., Burleson, W., Quarles, J., Mann, S., Hill, C., Clashing, C., Elvitigala, D. 11 May 2024, CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, USA, ACM
Artificial Design Fiction: Using AI as a Material for Pastiche Scenarios, Blythe, M. 3 Oct 2023, Mindtrek '23: Proceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games, Rüller, S., Giménez Ciciolli, B., Weibert, A., Aal, K., Blythe, M., Muller, M., Kafai, Y. 19 Aug 2022, PDC '22, New York, US, ACM
Digital Rituals in Performance: Transitions to Internet of Things Trust and Security, Primlani, N., Blythe, M., Marshall, J. 8 Oct 2022, Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022, New York, ACM
Flourishing ‘older-old’ (80+) adults: Personal projects and their enabling places, Roe, J., Blythe, M., Oliver, C., Roe, A. Jan 2022, In: Wellbeing, Space and Society
Splash! Identifying the Grand Challenges for WaterHCI, Clashing, C., Montoya Vega, M., Smith, I., Marshall, J., Oppermann, L., Dietz, P., Blythe, M., Bateman, S., Pell, S., Ananthanarayan, S., Mueller, F. 27 Apr 2022, CHI EA '22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, US, ACM
Designs on Transcendence: Sketches of a TX Machine, Blythe, M., Buie, E. 14 Dec 2021
DIS 2021 Chairs Welcome, Ju, W., Oehlberg, L., Hummels, C., Blythe, M., Höök, K. 28 Jun 2021, DIS 2021 - Companion Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, ACM
Evaluating Design Fiction, Baumer, E., Blythe, M., Tanenbaum, T. 3 Jul 2020, In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

PGR Supervision

Luke Sellers Reconceptualising assessment categorisations in initial counselling contexts: Designs for participatory sense-making and alternative ways of knowing. Start Date: 13/06/2023
Enrique Encinas The Offject. A Design Theory of Fiction Start Date: 01/10/2015 End Date: 30/05/2019
Elizabeth Buie Exploring Techno-Spirituality: Design Strategies for Transcendent User Experience Start Date: 19/10/2012 End Date: 22/02/2018
Leila Hogarth Data Oracles: How UX Designers Navigate AI Ethics in Commercial Design Practice Start Date: 22/03/2021 End Date: 17/07/2024
Aysar Ghassan Designerly Ways of Speaking: Investigating How the Design Tribe of Researchers Speak on Design Thinking Start Date: 14/11/2011 End Date: 13/11/2019
Joshua Roland Designing Transcendent Spaces in the Metaverse Start Date: 01/10/2022
Cally Gatehouse The Speculative Gaze: Design-Research as Diffraction Start Date: 01/04/2014 End Date: 15/07/2020

Qualifications

Computing Science PhD June 30 1997
Information not provided Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) 2003

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