Professor Jon Rogers

Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Jon Rogers is a professor of creative technology at the university of Northumbria in Newcastle with a PhD in neural networks from Imperial College in 2001 and seventeen years teaching and research practice at the University of Dundee (2003-2020). Now at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, he takes a very hands-in approach to understanding human relationships with emerging technology by making things that help to uncover as yet untold stories of how our relationship with the internet and related technologies might unfold. In a world where the stories of our digital lives are being unknowingly shaped by design patterns originating through big tech, it is time we considered rewriting these to foster a more open society where more people can thrive and prosper in new self-directed ways. Following a three year Senior Fellowship with Mozilla in Berlin (2016-2019) he led the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral training programme OpenDoTT exploring trust and the internet of things. Jon has a long history of organising and delivering workshops that engage professionals, academics and the public with emerging technologies at SXSW, Mozilla Festival, Republica, Unbox Festival, London Design Festival, ThingsCon, ACM CHI, DIS and TEI.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Jon's research includes expertise is and between

Creative Technology
Connected devices
Open harware (including Raspberry PI and Arduino)
Reseach Through Design

Key Publications

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HCI for Agroecology: Agri-Tech between Grassroots and Capitalism, Prost, S., Crivellaro, C., Collingham, H., Vines, J., Taylor, N., Thackara, J., Rogers, J. 13 Apr 2026, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), New York, United States, ACM
pegBits: Experimenting with a 0.1" system for open hardware prototyping, Rogers, J., Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Metcalfe, T., Taylor, N., Raj, R., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P. 4 Mar 2025, TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, New York, NY, United States, ACM
A Craft Ethos: hiCraft, Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P., Kisby, E. 20 Oct 2024
Data Probes: Reflecting on Connected Devices with Technology-Mediated Probes, Taylor, N., Chatting, D., Rogers, J. 11 Feb 2024, TEI '24, New York, ACM
Digital Technologies for Smallholder Agriculture: Tensions and Speculations, Prost, S., Collingham, H., Rogers, J. 1 Jul 2024, DIS '24 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
Exploring the Potential of Off-the-Shelf Tools as Digital Probes: Appropriation of a Mobile Diary App, Aytaç, A., Junginger, S., Rogers, J. 1 Jul 2024, In: Design Issues
hiCams: hiCraft, Marshall, J., Rogers, J., Wallace, J., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P., Kisby, E. 20 Oct 2024
hiCraft: Crafting a Healthier Internet: People, Things and our Digital Society, Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Taylor, N., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P., Kisby, E. 20 Oct 2024
pegBits: Open-source pegboard for prototyping – from component to artefact, Rogers, J., Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Heslop, P., Verkerk, J., Kisby, E. 20 Oct 2024
Walking and Talking: Place-Based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities, Prost, S., Ntouros, V., Wood, G., Collingham, H., Taylor, N., Crivellaro, C., Rogers, J., Vines, J. 10 Jul 2023, DIS '23, New York, USA, ACM

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: Recrafting the Internet 2024
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Internet ‘care’ label workshop 2024
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: VA PEPR Public Hackathon 2024

PGR Supervision

Romit Raj Codesign as Joint Action: Coordination, Common Ground, and Collaboration in Development-Sector Design Start Date: 01/10/2023
Romit Raj Locating Codesign in Social Innovation: Determining When and How to Integrate It into Digital Technology Development Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025

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