Marcus Foth

Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He received a BCompSc(Hon) from Furtwangen University, Germany, a BMultimedia from Griffith University, Australia and an MA and PhD in digital media and urban sociology from QUT. Marcus is the recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery funding scheme and a 2007 Visiting Fellowship from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Marcus’ work is positioned at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on urban informatics, locative media and mobile applications. His research has significantly shaped the social strategies of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, the Queensland Government’s flagship urban renewal project. Employing human-centred and participatory design methods, Marcus and his team pioneer new interactive social networking systems informed by community, social and urban studies.

Since 2003, Marcus has (co-)authored over 50 publications. The high quality of his research output has attracted over $1.16M in national competitive grants from the Australian Research Council and industry in 2006 and 2007. He is a chief investigator on the projects New Media in the Urban Village: Mapping Communicative Ecologies & Socio-Economic Innovation in Emerging Inner-City Residential Developments, and Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning. He is lead chief investigator of Opportunities of Media and Communication Technology to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents in Mexico, South Africa, UK and Australia, and Swarms in Urban Villages: New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Developments. He is a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers.

Publications

Opportunities of Public Transport Experience Enhancements with Mobile Services and Urban Screens
Opportunities of Public Transport Experience Enhancements with Mobile Services and Urban Screens
Marcus Foth, Ronald Schroeter, Jimmy Ti. © 2013. 18 pages.
Public transportation is an environment with great potential for applying innovative ubiquitous computing services to enhance user experiences. This paper provides the...
Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth. © 2010. 15 pages.
Web services such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, file sharing and social networking are frequently referred to by the term Web 2.0. The innovation of these services lies in their...
Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space
Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space
Helen Klaebe, Barbara Adkins, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn. © 2010. 16 pages.
This chapter defines, explores and Illustrates research at the intersection of people, place and technology in cities. First, we theorise the notion of ecology in the social...
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
Marcus Foth. © 2009. 506 pages.
Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has...
Mobile Spatial Interaction and Mediated Social Navigation
Mobile Spatial Interaction and Mediated Social Navigation
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth. © 2009. 5 pages.
The increasing ubiquity of location and context-aware mobile devices and applications, geographic information systems (GIS) and sophisticated 3D representations of the physical...
Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth. © 2009. 15 pages.
Web services such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, file sharing and social networking are frequently referred to by the term Web 2.0. The innovation of these services lies in their...
Analyzing the Factors Influencing the Successful Design and Uptake of Interactive Systems to Support Social Networks in Urban Neighborhoods
Analyzing the Factors Influencing the Successful Design and Uptake of Interactive Systems to Support Social Networks in Urban Neighborhoods
Marcus Foth. © 2009. 16 pages.
In urban residential environments in Australia and other developed countries, Internet access is on the verge of becoming a ubiquitous utility like gas or electricity. From an...
Networking Serendipitous Social Encounters in Urban Neighbourhoods
Networking Serendipitous Social Encounters in Urban Neighbourhoods
Marcus Foth. © 2009. 17 pages.
In Australian urban residential environments and other developed countries, Internet access is on the verge of becoming a ubiquitous utility, like water or electricity. From an...
Sociocultural Animation
Sociocultural Animation
Marcus Foth. © 2008. 8 pages.
The emergence of global computer networks and the widespread availability of advanced information communication technology (ICT) since the mid-nineties has given rise to the hope...
Analyzing the Factors Influencing the Successful Design and Uptake of Interactive Systems to Support Social Networks in Urban Neighborhoods
Analyzing the Factors Influencing the Successful Design and Uptake of Interactive Systems to Support Social Networks in Urban Neighborhoods
Marcus Foth. © 2006. 18 pages.
In urban residential environments in Australia and other developed countries, Internet access is on the verge of becoming a ubiquitous utility like gas or electricity. From an...
Sociocultural Animation
Sociocultural Animation
Marcus Foth. © 2005. 6 pages.
The emergence of global computer networks and the widespread availability of advanced information communication technology (ICT) since the mid-nineties has given rise to the hope...