Prof Marcus Foth
Professor Marcus Foth
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Marcus Foth is a Professor in Strategic Design in the School of Design and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Marcus’ research brings together people, place, and technology. His current research foci include:
• data care in smart cities;
• inclusion, participation, and community advocacy;
• automated vehicles in rural and remote regions;
• sustainability and design for more-than-human futures.
For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. Marcus has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and currently serves on Australia’s national College of Experts.