[chisigmail] UTAS CIS Seminar Mon 20/04: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu by Dr Marcus Foth (QUT)

[Christopher Lueg]

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Seminar Announcement
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School of Computing and Information Systems

Time: 11:00-11:50 on Monday, 20th of April, 2009

Location: Room 473 Centenary Building in Hobart,
            Room V137 Computing Building in Launceston,

Title: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu

Speaker: Dr.Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Abstract
The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and 
location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless 
transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: 
road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and 
people networks create a buzzing environment that's alive and exciting. Driven 
by curiosity, initiative and interdisciplinary exchange, the Urban Informatics 
research group at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is an emerging 
cluster of people interested in research and development at the intersection of 
people, place and technology with a focus on cities, locative media and mobile 
technology. Our team comprises and collaborates with architects with degrees in 
media studies, software engineers with expertise in urban sociology, 
human-computer interaction designers with a grounding in cultural studies, and 
urban planners with an interest in digital media and social networking. Being 
hosted by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT enables 
our projects to embrace the creative energy of a range of disciplines across 
design, performance, production and writing. Dr Marcus Foth will present an 
overview of the projects that the Urban Informatics research group are 
currently working on.

Biography: Dr 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 was 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. 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 (IGI, 
2009). He is the conference chair of OZCHI 2009, a member of the Australian 
Computer Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Internet 
Researchers. More information at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/




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