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Associate Professor Marcus Foth

Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Design Office,
Urban Informatics

Personal

Name
Associate Professor Marcus Foth
Position(s)
Principal Research Fellow
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Design Office,
Urban Informatics
Discipline *
Communication and Media Studies, Information Systems, Design Practice and Management
Phone
+61 7 3138 8772
Email
Location
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Qualifications

PhD (Queensland University of Technology), MA (Queensland University of Technology), BCompSc(Hons) , BMultimedia (Griffith University), JP(Qual.) Qld

Professional memberships
and associations
Keywords

Community Engagement, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Mobile Applications, Social Media, Sustainability, Ubiquitous Computing, Urban Computing, Urban Informatics, User Experience

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Associate Professor Marcus Foth is the founder and director of the Urban Informatics Research Lab, and Principal Research Fellow with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology.

Professor Foth’s research explores human-computer interaction design and development at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on urban informatics, social media, ubiquitous computing and mobile applications.

The high quality of Foth’s research work has attracted over $2M in national competitive grants and industry funding since 2006. The planning, design and development site Planetizen lists Foth in the world’s top 25 leading thinkers and innovators in the field of urban planning and technology.

Professor Foth has authored and co-authored over 80 articles published in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (IGI 2009), co-author of Action Research and New Media (Hampton Press 2009), and co-editor of From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press 2011) and Eat Cook Grow: Human-Computer and Human-Food Interactions (MIT Press 2012, forthcoming). He was the conference chair of OZCHI 2009 in Melbourne, and the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies C&T 2011in Brisbane.

Current Appointments

Past Appointments

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Teaching

Principal Supervision of Research Students

  • Mark Bilandzic, PhD, 2010 – 2013: The Embodied Hybrid Space: Designing for Digital Encounters in Physical Environments
  • Geremy Farr-Wharton, PhD, 2010 – 2013: Having the Cake and Eating it Too: Opportunities of Social Media and Ubiquitous Computing to Reduce Food Wastage
  • Kirralie Houghton, PhD, 2010 – 2013: Understanding the Implications of Networked Social Interactions for the Design of Public Urban Spaces
  • Peter Lyle, PhD, 2010 – 2013: Communicative Ecologies of Urban Agriculture: Opportunities for Social Media and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Richard Medland, PhD, 2009 – 2012: Connecting People to their Resource Consumption through Real-time Data Visualisation
  • Jodie Reynolds, MA(Res), 2010 – 2011: Thinking Inside the Square: Facilitating Intercultural Citizenship in Civic Squares through the Creative Use of New Media
  • Ronald Schroeter, PhD, 2008 – 2011: Augmented Urban Spaces: ICT to Bridge the Physical and Digital City
  • Jan Seeburger, PhD, 2009 – 2012: Enhancing the Experience of People in Urban Public Places through Context-Aware Mobile Content and Services

Associate Supervision of Research Students

  • Klaus Petrik, PhD, 2010 – 2013: Deliberation and Collaboration in the Policy Process: A Web 2.0 Approach
  • Jimmy Ti, PhD, 2010 – 2013: Applications of Context-Aware Mobile Technologies in Enhancing Experience of Public Transport Passengers
Associate Professor Marcus Foth has also been regularly giving guest lectures and tutorials at QUT and other universities since 2001.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Marcus Foth.

Experience

Review Experience Conferences

Workshops

Journals
Research Grant Assessor
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Marcus Foth.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Awards

Awards and recognition

Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2010
Details
awarded the inaugural Australian Business Foundation Research Fellowship on Innovation and Cultural Industries 2010 sponsored by the Aurora Foundation
Type
Membership of Review Panels on Prestigious Grant Applications
Reference year
2010
Details
Chair of the judging panel for the Australian Computer Society Queensland ICT Awards (Green ICT Corporate award category), 2010
Type
Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
Reference year
2009
Details
Conference Chair of OZCHI 2009: the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), Melbourne, 23-27 November 2009
Type
Membership of Review Panels on Prestigious Grant Applications
Reference year
2009
Details
Chair of the judging panel for the Australian Computer Society Queensland ICT Awards (Green ICT Corporate award category), 2009
Type
Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
Reference year
2007
Details
As an OII Visiting Fellow, Dr Foth will study opportunities of internet technology to support social networks of urban residents in Mexico, South Africa, Australia, and the UK. The design of internet technology to facilitate social interaction in inner-city neighbourhoods is increasingly important for many countries. Mexico and South Africa are particularly prone to issues that stem from urban densification and a lack of adequate affordable housing. Governments look at information and communication technology to take on a mediating and facilitating role. This study brings together the expertise of researchers from four continents in a two year collaborative project under the leadership of Dr Foth. The team will select and examine local case studies to prepare an international comparison of community networking approaches.http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/visitors.cfm?id=102

Research projects

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title
Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
LP100100232
Start year
2010
Keywords
Human Computer Interaction, Urban Informatics, Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Social Interaction
Title
Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
LP0882274
Start year
2008
Keywords
Community Engagement, Community Informatics, New Media, Urban Planning
Title
Swarms in Urban Villages: New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Developments
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
LP0776341
Start year
2008
Keywords
Social Networking Systems, New Media, Human Computer Interaction, Community Informatics, Interaction Design, Urban Neighbourhoods
Title
Opportunities of Media and Communication Technology to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents in Mexico, South Africa, UK and Australia
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
LX0776580
Start year
2007
Keywords
Media Studies, Communication Studies, New Media, Community Informatics, Urban Renewel, Community Networks
Title
New Media in the Urban Village: Mapping Communicative Ecologies and Socio-Economic Innovation in Emerging Inner-City Residential Developments
Primary fund type
Australian Competitive Grants
Project ID
DP0663854
Start year
2006
Keywords
New Media, Urban Renewal, Social Networks, Inner City Neighbourhoods, Community Informatics, Social Capital.

Supervision

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)