Urban Informatics and Sustainable Cities - Professor Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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Marcus Foth is Associate Professor and a Principal Research Fellow with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation. He founded and leads the Urban Informatics Research Group at QUT. He received a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship (2009-2011), and a Smart Futures Fellowship from the Queensland State Government (2009-2011), co-sponsored by National ICT Australia (NICTA). He was an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2008), and a Visiting Fellow (2007) at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Dr Foth's research explores human-computer interaction design 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 sixty articles in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings in the last five years. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (2009). He is the conference chair of OZCHI 2009 (Melbourne) and the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2011 (Brisbane).

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