Prof Marcus Foth

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Areas of interest: Urban Informatics, More-than-Human Futures, Media Architecture, Interaction Design, and Participatory Design

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

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics 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. He is a founding member of the More-than-Human Futures research group. Marcus’ research brings together people, place, and technology. His current research foci include:

For two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Since founding the Urban Informatics Research Lab at QUT in 2006, urban informatics has been adopted worldwide by industry (e.g., McKinsey, Intel, CISCO) and universities (e.g., NYU, University College London, Warwick, Northeastern). His leadership in establishing the field was recognised in 2017 by the Australian Computer Society inducting Marcus as a Fellow for ‘a sustained and distinguished contribution to the field of computer science’ and by the Australian and New Zealand Governments, which included urban informatics as a new field of research in their 2020 Standard Research Classification.

Marcus has published more than 260 peer-reviewed publications. His h-index is 55 with 10,000+ citations.

In 2023, Marcus was inducted as a Fellow to the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2021, Marcus was appointed to serve a three year term on the national College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC). In 2021, he was also named a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his outstanding scientific contributions to the field of computing.

The outputs of Marcus’ research have received many awards. For example, the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer Toolkit received the 2021 National Award for Cutting Edge Research of the Planning Institute of Australia for significantly accelerating the calculation of value uplift in linear infrastructure projects such as rail networks. His BeefLedger project was recognised as a 2020 Good Design Australia Award winner twice: in the commercial services category and for design strategy, for demonstrating tangible benefits and impact of blockchain and smart contract applications for industry. Nominated by the Smart Cities Council Australia / New Zealand, Marcus was awarded ICT Researcher of the Year 2017 (Gold Disruptor) by the Australian Computer Society.

Marcus has made substantial contributions to academic service, including being conference chair of OZCHI 2009, Communities & Technologies 2011, and ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems 2016. He is an active reviewer, associate chair, and editorial board member for various conferences and journals. In recognition of his service, he received the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award (cross-field), which honours the top 1% of reviewers.

Marcus is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and has been giving invited keynote talks and presentations at international conferences and leading research institutions, including Aalto, Aarhus, Harvard, IT University of Copenhagen, KAIST, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, MIT, Oulu, Oxford, Politecnico di Milano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tongji, Tsinghua.

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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.
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Membership of a Statutory Committee
Reference year
2021
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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
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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."

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Research Projects

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

Current Supervisions

  • 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

Completed Supervisions (Doctorate)