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Professor Paul Coulton

Professor of Speculative and Game Design

  1. Publication peer-review
  2. ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2025 (DIS'25) (Event)

    Coulton, P. (Peer reviewer)

    5/03/202510/03/2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPublication peer-review

  3. ACM Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2025 (TEI'25) (Event)

    Coulton, P. (Peer reviewer)

    1/11/202414/11/2024

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPublication peer-review

  4. Futures (Journal)

    Coulton, P. (Peer reviewer)

    14/01/2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPublication peer-review

  5. Futures (Journal)

    Coulton, P. (Peer reviewer)

    15/04/2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work typesPublication peer-review

  6. Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
  7. Machine Learning and place-making 2020

    Cureton, P. (Speaker), Coulton, P. (Speaker) & Lindley, J. (Speaker)

    9/11/2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in conference -Mixed Audience

  8. TEA Talks

    Costa, A. (Organiser), Tsekleves, E. (Speaker), Lopez-Galviz, C. (Speaker), Tyfield, D. (Speaker), Jacobs, N. (Speaker), Coulton, P. (Speaker) & Wooldridge, R. (Speaker)

    28/10/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in conference -Mixed Audience

  9. Participation in workshop, seminar, course
  10. ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

    Sailaja, N. (Organiser), McAuley, D. (Organiser), Gradinar, A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Jones, R. (Organiser)

    17/06/2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  11. Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures

    Lindley, J. (Speaker), Whitham, R. (Speaker), Jacobs, N. (Speaker), Coulton, P. (Speaker), Murrieta-Flores, P. (Speaker) & Carrigan, M. (Speaker)

    7/03/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  12. MobiKUI 2008 International Workshop on Mobile and Kinetic User Interfaces

    Coulton, P. (Keynote/plenary speaker)

    13/10/200814/10/2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  13. Mobilities & Design Workshop

    Coulton, P. (Invited speaker)

    29/04/201430/04/2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  14. more-than-human design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    10/12/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  15. Mozilla Festival 2016

    Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    7/11/2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  16. Re-imagining Alternative Futures of Sustainability Through Design Fiction

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    12/01/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  17. Re-imagining Alternative More-than-Human Futures of Sustainability

    Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Coskun, A. (Organiser)

    22/02/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  18. Speculative Woolgathering Workshop 2

    Jacobs, N. (Organiser), Perez Ojeda, D. (Organiser), Richards, D. (Participant), Coulton, P. (Participant) & Birch, E. (Organiser)

    3/03/2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  19. TIPS by Design – Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

    Lindley, J. G. (Speaker), Coulton, P. (Speaker) & Gradinar, A. I. (Speaker)

    11/12/2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

  20. Invited talk
  21. A Rhetorical Approach to Gameful Design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    1/05/2014

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  22. Adoption in the Internet of Things

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    12/09/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  23. Alien Futuring: Speculative Approaches to More-Than-Human Design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    25/05/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  24. Becoming Immersed in the Future Mundane

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    17/10/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  25. Defuturing Futures through More-Than-Human Centred Design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    30/06/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  26. Design Futures through Design Fiction

    Coulton, P. (Member of Panel)

    22/04/2016

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  27. Design Futuring: Speculative Design and Design Fiction

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    16/11/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  28. Designing More-Than-Human Futures

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    22/07/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  29. Enhancing the UK Economy through Immersive Technology

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    21/11/2023

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  30. Exploring Futures through Game Worlds

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    27/08/2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  31. Futures at the Margins: adopting more-than-human perspectives

    Coulton, P. (Keynote speaker)

    5/12/2024

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  32. Living Room of the Future

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    7/12/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  33. more than human centred design: considering other things

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    19/10/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  34. more-than-human centred design: ghosts in the machine

    Akmal, H. A. (Speaker), Coulton, P. (Speaker) & Lindley, J. (Speaker)

    18/03/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  35. more-than-human centred design: reimagining design for the internet of things

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    11/12/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  36. Moving Beyond Points and Badges to Using Games as a Lens for UX Design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    13/07/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  37. moving towards more-than human centred design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    15/01/2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  38. Prototyping Alternate Presents and Plausible Futures for IOT using Design Fiction

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    3/03/20194/03/2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  39. Role of Social Media in Mass Particpation TV

    Coulton, P. (Member of Panel)

    25/04/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  40. Speculative Game Design

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    11/03/2015

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  41. Sustainable Things: Design for More-Than Human Centred Worlds

    Stead, M. (Speaker) & Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    23/07/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  42. Think/Do/Repeat

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    13/01/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesInvited talk

  43. Oral presentation
  44. Ghosts in the Smart Home

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    11/03/2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesOral presentation

  45. Seeing the spaces in between: Philosophical perspectives for exploring spatial configurations in games

    Akmal, H. A. (Speaker) & Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    3/09/2021

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesOral presentation

  46. Membership of committee
  47. AHRC (External organisation)

    Coulton, P. (Member)

    01/2015 → …

    Activity: Membership typesMembership of committee

  48. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)

    Coulton, P. (Member)

    26/09/2016 → …

    Activity: Membership typesMembership of committee

  49. The N8 Research Partnership (External organisation)

    Coulton, P. (Member)

    1/08/2015 → …

    Activity: Membership typesMembership of committee

  50. Examination
  51. External Examiner MSc in Connected Environments UCL

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    19/06/2024

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  52. External Examiner MSc in Connected Environments UCL

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    8/11/2023

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  53. External Examiner MSc in Connected Environments UCL

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    6/11/2024

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  54. PhD Examination

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    5/04/20257/04/2025

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  55. PhD Examination (internal) @ Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    8/12/2022

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  56. PhD Examination (internal) @ Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    19/02/2021

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  57. PhD Examination (internal) @ Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    28/02/2022

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  58. PhD Examination (internal) @ Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    1/03/2022

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  59. PhD Examination (Internal) @ Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    13/10/2023

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  60. PhD Examination @ Delft

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    25/08/2020

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  61. PhD Examination @ Edinburgh College of Art

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    22/08/2024

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  62. PhD Examination @ Northumbria School of Design

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    15/09/2023

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  63. PhD Examination @ Royal College of Art

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    30/10/2024

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  64. PhD Examination @ University of Primorska

    Coulton, P. (Examiner)

    26/04/2024

    Activity: Examination typesExamination

  65. Other
  66. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Lindley, J. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    14/08/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  67. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    23/09/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  68. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (Beyond Imagination)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    20/07/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  69. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (LICA)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    20/08/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  70. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (Open Call 1)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    9/09/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  71. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (Open Call 2)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    10/09/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  72. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (Open Call 3)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    16/09/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  73. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop (Open Call 4)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    17/09/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  74. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (Imperial College & Blackburn Fab Lab)

    Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    1/02/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  75. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (more -than-human design class)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    20/11/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  76. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 1)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    14/01/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  77. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 2)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    20/01/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  78. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 3)

    Pilling, F. (Speaker) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    25/01/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  79. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 4 UCL)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    8/02/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  80. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 5 UCL)

    Pilling, F. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    12/02/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  81. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (open call 6 UCL)

    Pilling, F. (Speaker) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    16/02/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  82. Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop V2 (Swiss Design Symposia)

    Coulton, P. (Organiser) & Pilling, F. (Organiser)

    25/03/2021

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  83. Uncanny Ai Iconography Workshops

    Pilling, F. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    15/10/202016/10/2020

    Activity: Other activity typesOther

  84. Festival/Exhibition/Concert
  85. AI: more than human

    Coulton, P. (Contributor), Pilling, M. (Contributor) & Lodge, T. (Contributor)

    5/08/20216/08/2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  86. Bath Digital Festival 2023

    Coulton, P. (Presenter), Pilling, M. (Presenter), Pilling, F. (Presenter), Chamberlain, A. (Presenter) & Sailaja, N. (Presenter)

    10/07/202314/07/2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  87. Bluedot Festival 2023

    Coulton, P. (Presenter), Pilling, M. (Presenter) & Pilling, F. (Presenter)

    21/07/202323/07/2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  88. British Science Festival 2022

    Stead, M. (Contributor), Pilling, F. (Contributor), Pilling, M. (Contributor), Coulton, P. (Contributor), Gradinar, A. (Contributor) & Bourne, J. (Contributor)

    17/09/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  89. Caravan from the Future

    Coulton, P. (Speaker), Pilling, M. (Contributor), Pilling, F. (Contributor), Chamberlain, A. (Contributor), Sailaja, N. (Contributor), Crabtree, A. (Contributor) & Forrester, I. (Speaker)

    9/05/202313/05/2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  90. Digital Design Weekend @V&A for London Design Festival

    Stead, M. (Contributor), Pilling, F. (Contributor), Pilling, M. (Contributor), Coulton, P. (Contributor), Gradinar, A. (Contributor), Ian, F. (Contributor) & Bourne, J. (Contributor)

    23/09/202225/09/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  91. Digital Design Weekend at V&A

    Coulton, P. (Contributor) & Gradinar, A. (Speaker)

    20/09/201421/09/2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  92. ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022

    Stead, M. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Macpherson-Pope, T. (Organiser) & Pilling, M. (Organiser)

    19/11/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  93. Ethical Dilemma Cafe as part of Mozilla Festival 2022

    Coulton, P. (Presenter), Pilling, M. (Presenter), Lodge, T. (Presenter), Chamberlain, A. (Contributor) & Sailaja, N. (Contributor)

    26/04/202227/04/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  94. ISF DSTL Stories4Policy: Speculative Futures for Engaging with Risk and Uncertainty

    Stead, M. (Presenter) & Coulton, P. (Presenter)

    6/07/2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  95. Light Up Lancaster

    Coulton, P. (Participant)

    6/11/2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  96. The ESRC Festival of Social Science

    Lindley, J. (Organiser), Pilling, F. (Organiser), Coulton, P. (Organiser), Akmal, H. A. (Organiser) & Gradinar, A. (Organiser)

    10/11/2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  97. The future is a work in progress Exhibition at the Festival of Futures

    Coupe, G. (Organiser), Cartwright, N. (Curator), Greenwood, L. (Organiser), Craig, C. (Contributor), D'Agnano, F. (Contributor), Chamberlain, P. (Contributor), Darby, A. (Contributor), Morgan, L. (Contributor), Reed, H. (Contributor), Stanton, A. (Contributor), Jorgensen, T. (Contributor), Costa, A. (Contributor), Koski, K. (Contributor), Bridgens, B. (Contributor), Scott, J. (Contributor), Calvo, M. (Contributor), Dart, S. (Contributor), Kaiser, R. (Contributor), Topcu, A. (Contributor), Therordoridou, M. (Contributor), Mwebaza, D. (Contributor), Graviador, A. (Contributor), Zhang, M. (Contributor), Dade-Robertson, M. (Contributor), Stead, M. (Contributor), Coulton, P. (Contributor), Owen, V. (Contributor), MacPherson-Pope, T. (Contributor), Menger, F. (Contributor), Boons, S. (Contributor), Hingley, L. (Contributor), Griffiths, R. (Contributor), Nesbitt, G. (Contributor), Parraman, C. (Contributor), Arteaga, R. (Contributor), Azimi Sajadi, N. (Contributor), Bush, T. (Contributor), Carnac, H. (Contributor), Kettle, A. (Contributor), Elliot, C. (Contributor), Hill, T. (Contributor), Mandrile, C. (Contributor), Urbano, L. (Contributor), Paz, A. (Contributor), Rogers, J. (Contributor), Smith, M. (Contributor), Soula, N. (Contributor), Langley, J. (Contributor), Blaney, A. (Contributor), Whitham, R. (Contributor), Perez Ojeda, D. (Contributor), Sherry, A. (Contributor), Lindley, J. (Speaker), Benjamin, J. (Speaker), Fernandez Galabo, R. (Speaker), Aure Calvet, X. (Contributor), Huson, D. (Contributor), Snooks, K. (Contributor), Richards, D. (Contributor), Gradinar, A. (Speaker), Pilling, F. (Contributor), Ozkan, D. (Contributor), Hardy, J. (Contributor), Pelit, E. (Contributor), Ian, F. (Contributor), Pilling, M. (Contributor), Soares Neto, C. S. (Contributor), Sacks, J. (Contributor), Junior, J. (Contributor), Elsacker, E. (Contributor) & Hoenerloh, A. (Contributor)

    7/03/202415/03/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  98. UKRI TAS Hub InterNET ZERO project @ ESRC Festival of Social Science 2024

    Stead, M. (Organiser), Owen, V. (Organiser) & Coulton, P. (Organiser)

    9/11/2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition/Concert

  99. Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
  100. Alien Futuring: shifting perspective from a one-world-world to a world of many worlds

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    28/10/2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  101. Augmented Reality: Beyond the Hype

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    13/09/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  102. Design Futures and the IoT

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    29/03/2018

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  103. Gamification: Brilliant or Bullshit?

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    17/09/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  104. Gamification: Will it Yeild and Epic Win?

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    26/05/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  105. Gesture Based Computing

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    13/10/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  106. ISF DSTL Stories4Policy conference: Experiential Futures - Exhibits Panel Discussion

    Stead, M. (Speaker) & Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    6/07/2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  107. Mobile Augmented Reality: Looking Beyond the Hype

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    16/07/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  108. Mobile Games as Social Information Appliances or Meme Generators

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    2/10/2009

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  109. Panel Speaker on Designing for Young People

    Coulton, P. (Active Contributor)

    24/07/2012

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

  110. Rest In Pixels

    Coulton, P. (Speaker)

    26/11/2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

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