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. Dr Foth is the recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery funding scheme. He was a 2007 Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Employing participatory design and action research, he is working on cross-disciplinary research and development at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on urban informatics, locative media and mobile applications. Dr Foth has published over fifty articles in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings in the last four years and is among the top 25 authors with the highest number of research paper downloads from QUT’s ePrints archive. He is a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers.
Foth, Marcus (ed.) (2008): Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA, USA, Information Science Reference, IGI Global
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Bilandzic, Mark, Foth, Marcus and Luca, Alexander De (2008): CityFlocks: Designing Social Navigation for Urban Mobile Information Systems. In: Designing Interactive Systems February 25-27, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa. . Available online
Foth, Marcus (2008): Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA, Queensland University of Technology
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Young, Greg T., Foth, Marcus and Matthes, Natascha Y. (2007): Virtual Fish: Visual Evidence of Connectivity in a Master-Planned Urban Community. In: Thomas, Bruce and Billinghurst, Mark (eds.) OZCHI Nov 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. . Available online
Young, Greg T., Foth, Marcus and Matthes, Natascha Y. (2007): Virtual fish: visual evidence of connectivity in a master-planned urban community. In: Proceedings of OZCHI07, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction November 28-30, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 219-222. Available online
Foth, Marcus, Gonzalez, Victor M. and Taylor, Wallace (2006): Designing for place-based social interaction of urban residents in México, South Africa and Australia. In: Kjeldskov, Jesper and Paay, Jane (eds.) Proceedings of OZCHI06, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006. pp. 345-348. Available online
Foth, Marcus, Gonzalez, Victor M. and Taylor, Wallace (2006): Designing for place-based social interaction of urban residents in México, South Africa and Australia. In: Kjeldskov, Jesper and Paay, Jane (eds.) Proceedings of OZCHI06, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006. pp. 345-348. Available online
Gaved, Mark and Foth, Marcus (2006): More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-Planned Neighbourhoods. In: Meersman, Robert, Tari, Zahir and Herrero, Pilar (eds.) Proceedings of OTM 2006: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006 Nov 2-3, 2006, Montpellier, France. pp. 171-180. Available online
Foth, Marcus (2006): Facilitating Social Networking in Inner-City Neighborhoods. In Computer, 39 (9) pp. 44-50