Associate Professor Marcus Foth is Principal Research Fellow with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, and founder and team leader of the Urban Informatics Research Lab. He received a QUT 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 awarded the inaugural Australian Business Foundation Research Fellowship on Innovation and Cultural Industries 2010 sponsored by the Aurora Foundation. He was an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2008), and a 2007 Visiting Fellow 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. The high quality of his research work has attracted over $1.8M in national competitive grants and industry funding since 2006. Dr Foth has published over 70 articles in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings. He is the editor of the Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (2009), and is currently co-editing the book From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen for MIT Press (2011). He is the conference chair of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2011 in Brisbane. More information at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

Markus Rittenbruch
Markus Rittenbruch is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has over 15 years of research experience in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Collaborative Systems. He has worked at various research organisations in Germany and Australia, including the University of Bonn, the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), the University of Queensland, the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), and NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence.

Markus’s work is centred around enriching the human experience of interacting with and through technology. He has worked extensively with different types of interface technologies and concepts including social mobile, multi-touch, tangible and physical computing. He current work focuses on the ease of access to urban information and the notion of the city as an interface.
Markus is working with the Edge, The State Library of Queensland new digital media centre where he runs public seminars and projects on urban sensing and physical computing. More information http://www.urbaninformatics.net and http://edgeqld.org.au/nicta/.