Dr Michael Shorter

Senior Research Fellow

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

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Key Publications

Materialising the Immaterial: Provotyping to Explore Voice Assistant Complexities, Shorter, M., Minder, B., Rogers, J., Baldauf, M., Todisco, A., Junginger, S., Aytaç, A., Wolf, P. 13 Jun 2022, DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, US, ACM
Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT, Taylor, N., Rogers, J., Clarke, L., Skelly, M., Wallace, J., Thomas, P., George, B., Raj, R., Shorter, M., Thorne, M. 28 Jun 2021, Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21), June 28–July 2, 2021, New York, ACM
The SelfReflector: Design, IoT and the High Street, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M., Thomas, P., Skelly, M., Cook, R. 1 Apr 2018, 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scribing as Seen from the Inside: The Ethos of the Studio, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Foster, J., Kingsley, S., Koulidou, N., Shorter, E., Shorter, M., Trotman, N. 5 Jul 2017, In: Design Issues
SelfReflector : Digital Design Weekend: London Design Festival Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M., Skelly, M., Thomas, P. Sep 2016
Connected Nation: Thriving in a Digital World, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M. 8 Dec 2015
SelfReflector at Mozfest, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M. Nov 2015
TapWriters UKMX: Digital Futures, Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M. 1 Sep 2015
A Craft Technologist's Approach Towards Printed Electronics, Shorter, M., Rogers, J., McGhee, J. 2014
Enhancing everyday paper interactions with paper circuits, Shorter, M., Rogers, J., McGhee, J. 21 Jun 2014, DIS 2014 , New York , US, ACM

Professional Activity

Organising a conference, workshop, ...: VA PEPR Public Hackathon 2024

Qualifications

PhD March 22 2017

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