Publications

Shorter, M. et al. (2022). Materialising the Immaterial: Provotyping to Explore Voice Assistant Complexities. DIS ’22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, , pp. 1512–1524.

Taylor, N., Rogers, J., Clarke, L., Skelly, M., Wallace, J., Thomas, P., George, B., Raj, R., Shorter, M., Thorne, M. (2021). Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT. Proc DIS 2021.

Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Shorter, M., Thomas, P.,Cook, R. (2019). The SelfReflector: Design, IoT and the High Street. CHI 2019.

Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Foster, J., Kingsley, S., Koulidou, N., Shorter, E., Shorter M., Trotman, N. (2017). Scribing as Seen from the Inside: The Ethos of the Studio. Design Issues, Volume 33, Issue 3, p.93-103.

Shorter, M. (2014). The Craft Technologist. International Journal of Studies in Material Thinking.

Shorter, M., Rogers, J., McGhee, J. and Shorter, E. (2014). A Craft Technologist’s Approach Towards Printed Electronics. Proc. All Makers Now 2014.

Shorter, M., Rogers, J. and McGhee, J. (2014). Enhancing Everyday Paper Interactions with Paper Circuits. Proc DIS 2014, ACM.

Shorter, M., Rogers, J. and McGhee, J. Practical Notes on Paper Circuits. Proc DIS 2014, ACM.

Taylor, N., Frohlich, D., Egglestone, P., Marshall, J., Rogers, J., Blum-Ross, A., Mills, J., Shorter, M. and Olivier, P. (2014). Utilising insight journalism for community technology design. Proc. CHI 2014, ACM.

Shorter, M., Rogers, J., Metcalfe, T. and McGhee, J. (2013). The Invite: Adding Value to Paper with Paper Electronics. Praxis and Poetics, Research Through Design 2013.

Shorter, M., Metcalfe, T., Rogers, J., Napier, A., Wallace, J. and Thomas, J. (2013). The Loneliness of the Roving Martian Robot: The Mini Mars Rover. Praxis and Poetics, Research Through Design 2013.

Reading By Starlight: An Exploration Into Making Space Data Physical And Personally Meaningful. Thomas, J., Wallace, J., Rogers, J., McGloin, D., Shorter, M., Llewellyn, A. Research Through Design: Praxis and Poetics p. 151 - 154

Frohlich D.M., Smith K., Blum-Ross A., Egglestone P., Mills J., Smith S., Rogers J., Shorter M., Marshall J., Olivier P., Woods J., Wallace J., Wood G. & Blythe M. (2011) Crossing the digital divide in the other direction: Community-centred design on the Bespoke project. Proceedings of Include 2011.

Marshall, J., Rogers, J. and Shorter, M. (2011). Parallel Lines: how design and craft find a convergence through a pragmatic approach to digital design. 7th ICDHS conference, Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences.

Invited Talks

2018 Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music, Valencia

2017 Paper Circuits, International Medieval Congress

2017 Every Little Things Gonna be AI, SXSW

2014 AHRC Panel, Cheltemham Literary Festival, Cheltenham

2013 Microso Think Computer Science, Cambridge

2013 Pecha Kucha, The Lighthouse, Glasgow

2013 Electric Bookshop, Inspace, Edinburgh

Exhibitions

2022 VA-PEPR, CoCreate, Northumbria University

2017 Solo, V&A, London Design Festival

2017 Solo, Future Cites, London Design Festival

2016 Tapwriters, V&A, London Design Festival

2014 All Makers Now Exhibition, Falmouth

2013 StarLight, London Design Festival, London

2013 Praxis and Poetics Exhibition, Newcastle

2013 Analogue Social, The Lighthouse, Glasgow

2012 Making the Web Physical, Mozilla Festival, London

2012 Fieldguide, London Design Festival, London

2012 Bespoke, 100% Design, London Design Festival, London

2012 SpaceApps, SXSW, Austin, USA

2011 Can Printed Electronics Save the Music Industry, SXSW, Austin, USA

2011 Plastic Fantasia, PLART, Naples, Italy

2010 AppleKarts, Il Compasso Di Latta, Milan, Italy

2008 The Audio Shelf, London Design Festival, London

Workshops

2022 Speak up! Exploring Decentralised Voice Assistant Futures through Speculative Design at Re:publica, Berlin
Exploring voice assistant futures

2022 Speak up! Exploring Decentralised Voice Assistant Futures through Speculative Design at Mozilla Ethical Dilemma Cafe, Manchester
Exploring voice assistant futures

2019 Design Sprint at AMEX
Teaching design thinking to the AMEX graduate scheme

2018 Design Sprint at Manchester City Football Club
Exploring ways of connecting with global fans trough technology

2018 AI Personas Workshop at ThingsCon Rotterdam
How to applying AI Personas to new digital products

2016 IoT vs. VR workshop at Binary Festival
Connecting IoT objects to VR experiences

2016 Design Sprint at AMEX
Exploring the future of transactions through technology

2015 IoT Workshop at ThingsCon Amsterdam

2013 Paper circuitry. Impact 8, Dundee

2013 Conductive ink and Arduino. MakLab, Glasgow

2012 Arduino and conductive ink. NID, India

2012 Paper apps. Open Lab, SXSW, Austin, USA