Prof Mark Blythe

Professor Mark Blythe

Professor

School: 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

Artificial Universities: Speculative AI and Generative Design, Blythe, M. 27 May 2026
No Spirituality Please, We're HCI: Challenges for HCI Research on Religion and Spirituality, Wolf, S., Friedrich, P., Buie, E., Blythe, M. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, United States, ACM
Artificial Intelligence and other Speculative Metaphors, Blythe, M., Lindley, S., Murray-Rust, D. 5 Jul 2025, DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, US, ACM
Design Courts: Workshops for Exploring Emerging Technology Ethics, Primlani, N., Blythe, M., Marshall, J. 26 Apr 2025, CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Human-AI Collaboration in Interior Design Education: GPT-Assisted Creativity and Innovation, AL Baker, M., Kirk, D., Blythe, M. 2 Dec 2025, IASDR 2025: Design Next, Tapei, The International Association of Societies of Design Research
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

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 End Date: 17/10/2025
Joshua Roland Designing Transcendent Spaces in the Metaverse Start Date: 01/10/2022
Luke Sellers Reassessing Assessments: creative critiques of initial assessment measures for talking therapy Start Date: 13/06/2023
Joshua Roland Designing Transcendent Spaces in the Metaverse Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025
Yve Smith Exploring children’s visions for an AI-enabled education. Start Date: 29/09/2025