Professor Marcus Foth

Member of Editorial and Advisory Boards

• Adaptive Environments (Springer book series)
• AI & Society – Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication (Springer)
• Big Data & Society (Sage)
• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (Elsevier)
• Urban Planning (Cogitatio)

Conference Chair

• Conference chair: ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16), Brisbane
• Conference chair: 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C&T 2011, Brisbane
• Conference chair: OZCHI 2009, Melbourne: 21st Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFESA)
• Academic program chair: Making Links conferences, 2007 – 2010
• Co-chair: Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2009, Brisbane
• Invited faculty member: Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Boston, 2007

Committee Positions

• ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) – steering committee member 2016 onwards
• Open UBI Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland – scientific advisory board member 2013 onwards
• UrbanIxD, Europe – scientific advisory board member 2013 – 2014
• Queensland Open Data Forum – steering committee member 2013
• Queensland Government Precinct Redevelopment – community reference group member 2013
• Elected Member of the executive board: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2007 – 2009

Jury and Assessment Duties

• Australian Computer Society (ACS) Queensland ICT Awards – chair of the judging panel: Green ICT (Corporate), 2009, 2010
• Australian Research Council – international reader and ERA reviewer, ARC College of Experts member (2021 – 2023)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK – grant ssessor
• European Science Foundation (ESF) – grant assessor
• Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal – grant assessor
• iAwards Australia – judge 2011, 2012, 2013
• K. U. Leuven (Research Council), Belgium – grant assessor
• Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI), New Zealand – grant assessor
• NWO Council for the Social Sciences, The Netherlands – grant assessor
• OZCHI 24h Student Design Challenge – judge 2009, 2011, 2012
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – grant assessor
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – grant assessor
• United Arab Emirates University, College of IT Promotion Committee – external reviewer
• University of Lugano (Research Commission), Switzerland – grant assessor
• VicHealth – grant assessor
• Vienna Business Agency, Austria – jury member of Wiennovation – Creative Industries Vienna 2002

Review Experience on Publons >

Type

Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS

Reference year

2023

Details

I was inducted as a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS) in 2023. The Academy promotes excellence in the arts and sciences, stimulates activity in those areas that lie at the intersection between disciplines, and provides independent scholarship and advice for social and public policy. Fellowship recognises a candidate¿s eminence in the arts or sciences or both and/or their significant contributions to the arts and/or sciences as a practitioner.

Type

Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes

Reference year

2021

Details

The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit co-designed by UNSW, QUT Design Lab, Omnilink and FrontierSI received the 2020 NSW award and also the 2021 National Award for Cutting Edge Research and Teaching by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in recognition of an outstanding achievement in planning research. It is awarded for a substantial piece of research that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of issues relating to planning in Australia. The award seeks to recognise work that extends planning debate with an evidence basis.

Type

Membership of Learned Societies

Reference year

2021

Details

I was named a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of computing. Distinguished members are nominated and selected by their peers for a significant level of accomplishment and impact in the field of computing. I was among 63 members worldwide who were honoured this year, and the only one in Australia. I am the first academic at QUT to receive the honour.

Type

Membership of a Statutory Committee

Reference year

2021

Details

I currently serve a three year term (2021 - 2023) on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts. To support the advancement of knowledge and contribute to national innovation, the ARC engages an ARC College of Experts to play a key role in identifying research excellence. Its members are experts of international standing drawn from the Australian research community: from higher education, industry and public sector research organisations.

Type

Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes

Reference year

2020

Details

Australia's annual Good Design Awards program is one of the oldest and most prestigious international design awards in the world, promoting excellence in design and innovation since 1958. It is recognised by the World Design Organization (WDO) as Australia¿s peak international design endorsement program. In 2020, the QUT BeefLedger project was recognised as a Good Design Australia Award Winner in the commercial services category, and the BeefLegends community engagement component won a Good Design Australia Award in the design strategy category.

Type

Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes

Reference year

2018

Details

The Publons Peer Review Awards honour the top 1% of reviewers in each field who performed the most verified pre-publication peer reviews on Publons during the 2017 / 2018 award year.

Type

Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes

Reference year

2017

Details

Nominated by the Smart Cities Council Australia / New Zealand, I was shortlisted and won the Gold Disruptor Award in the ICT Researcher of the Year category of the ACS Digital Disruptors Awards 2017. The awards honour the efforts of Australia¿s ICT professionals, recognising the teams and individuals at the forefront of digital disruption.

Type

Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes

Reference year

2017

Details

Inducted as ACM Distinguished Speaker: The Distinguished Speakers Program is an outreach program of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that brings distinguished speakers from academia, industry, and government together to give presentations to ACM chapters, members, and the greater IT community in a variety of venues and formats.

Type

Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees

Reference year

2017

Details

Appointed Infrastructure Innovation Task Force Member. The State Infrastructure Plan (SIP) is an infrastructure strategy and program that underpins economic growth, supports jobs and creates long-term prosperity for all Queenslanders. The Infrastructure Innovation Taskforce relates to the SIP implementation action 14: to establish a joint industry-government infrastructure innovation taskforce.

Type

Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS

Reference year

2017

Details

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) made me a Fellow for "a sustained and distinguished contribution to the field of computer science. Foth is the international thought leader who coined the term urban informatics - now adopted by universities and industry worldwide. Foth's work makes clear how academic research can successfully respond to societal challenges."

• Powell, W., Foth, M., Cao, S. & Natanelov, V. (2022). Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 25. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212325
• Mann, M., Mitchell, P., Foth, M. & Anastasiu Cioaca, I. (2020). #BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(9), 1103–1115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200269
• Loh, S., Foth, M., Caldwell, G., Garcia-Hansen, V. & Thomson, M. (2020). A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment. Architectural Science Review, 63(3-4), 372–383. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197359
• Teli, M., Foth, M., Sciannamblo, M., Anastasiu Cioaca, I. & Lyle, P. (2020). Tales of Institutioning and Commoning: Participatory Design Processes with a Strategic and Tactical Perspective. PDC '20: Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1, 159–171. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/196781
• Tomitsch, M., Fredericks, J., Caldwell, G. & Foth, M. (2019). The city as perpetual beta: Fostering systemic urban acupuncture. In M. de Waal & M. de Lange (Eds.), The hackable city: Digital media and collaborative city-making in the network society (pp. 67–92). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/107240
• Bilandzic, M. & Foth, M. (2017). Designing hubs for connected learning: social, spatial and technological insights from coworking spaces, hackerspaces, and meetup groups. In M. de Laat, L. Carvalho & P. Goodyear (Eds.), Place-based spaces for networked learning (pp. 191–206). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83742
• Filonik, D., Medland, R., Foth, M. & Rittenbruch, M. (2013). A customisable dashboard display for environmental performance visualisations. Persuasive Technology: 8th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2013, Proceedings [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 7822], 51–62. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/56544
• Foth, M., Paulos, E., Satchell, C. & Dourish, P. (2009). Pervasive computing and environmental sustainability: Two conference workshops. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 8(1), 78–81. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17164
• Paulos, E., Foth, M., Satchell, C., Kim, Y., Dourish, P. & Choi, H. (2008). Ubiquitous sustainability: Citizen science and activism. Presented at: 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/14130
• Foth, M., (2003). Connectivity Does Not Ensure Community: On Social Capital, Networks and Communities of Place. Proceedings of the 5th International Information Technology in Regional Areas (ITiRA) Conference 2003, 31–39. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/1902

Title

Advancing Digital Inclusion in Low Income Australian Families

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

LP190100677

Start year

2021

Keywords

Title

Digital Media, Location Awareness, and the Politics of Geodata

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DP180100174

Start year

2018

Keywords

Title

Fostering digital participation through Living Labs in regional and rural Australian communities

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

LP130100469

Start year

2014

Keywords

digital citizenship; rural & regional; digital literacy

Title

Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

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

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

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

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

LP0776341

Start year

2008

Keywords

Social Networking Systems; New Media; Human Computer Interaction; Community Informatics; Interaction Design; Urban Neighbourhoods

• SYSTEM DYNAMICS ANALYSIS FOR A CIRCULAR TRANSITION OF THE PLASTICS ECONOMY IN SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND: OPTIMIZATION OF LOCAL PLASTIC ECONOMY, POLICY AND RECYCLING THROUGH SYSTEMIC FEEDBACK MODELLING AND POLICY SCENARIOS TESTING
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Dr Manuela Taboada, Professor Leonie Barner
• Participatory Design of a Data-Agnostic Smart City Framework
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Associate Professor Markus Rittenbruch, Professor Peta Mitchell
• Overcoming barriers in institutional decision-making processes for circular economies and regenerative cities
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Greg Hearn
• The entanglement of people and plants through technologically mediated environments within office buildings
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Dr Yasu Santo
• Mapping Separation: Participatory as a Re-Locative Strategy for Migrants and Transnational Relationships
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Dr Jane Turner
• Can we get there from here? The role of the Commercial Customer in the Electricity Markets of the Future
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Adjunct Associate Professor Wendy Miller, Dr Aaron Liu
• Translating Common Knowledge Theory into Practice: Blockchain and Applied Cryptography for Decentralised Finance in Trust-less Food Supply Chains
  PhD, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Associate Professor Xavier Boyen
• Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s)
  PhD, Principal Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Professor Peta Mitchell
• Wearing your heart on your sleeve:how can `wearable eco protest art¿ alleviate feelings of environmental grief and engage community?
  MPhil, Associate Supervisor
  Other supervisors: Dr Manuela Taboada

• radical placemaking: An Experiential Digital Placemaking Approach for Social Justice (2023)
• Alternative Forms of Citymaking: Insights and Implications from South Africa and Australia (2021)
• Intermediation as Practice: Joining the Dots Between Community, Culture and Commerce (2021)
• Planning and City Policy Responses to Remote Work in Urban Environments (2021)
• The Rise of Casual Creative Environments: Towards a Socially Embedded View of Innovation Precursors and Processes (2021)
• Humanising the Smart City: Co-Creation Redefined in Pursuit of Systemic Change (2020)
• The Right to the Digital City: The Role of Urban Imaginaries in Participatory Citymaking (2019)
• Connecting to Self, Community, and the Environment: Energy Conservation and Well-being in Households with Low Income (2018)
• Risky Gadgets to the Rescue - Reframing In-Car Technology Use as Task Engagement (2018)
• The Mundane Lives of Households: A Design Exploration into Everyday Resource Sufficiency in the Home (2018)