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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Marcus Foth is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research spans the intersection of social sciences and computer science, focusing prominently on human-computer interaction and information systems. They have contributed to several subfields including sociology and political science, media technology, and management of technology and innovation.

The primary topics of study in Marcus Foth's work include innovative human-technology interaction, smart cities and technologies, blockchain technology applications and security, innovative approaches in technology and social development, land use and ecosystem services, cultural industries and urban development, and COVID-19 digital contact tracing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marcus Foth are:

  • Peta Mitchell
  • Shoufeng Cao
  • Glenda Amayo Caldwell
  • Warwick Powell
  • Greg Hearn

They have published multiple times in venues such as:

  • Interaction design & architecture(s)/ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s)
  • Journal of Urban Technology
  • Journal of Industrial Information Integration
  • AI & Society
  • Sustainability

Recent scholarly papers include:

  • "Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism" (2020, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture)
  • "Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains" (2021, Journal of Industrial Information Integration)
  • "Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities" (2022, AI & Society)
  • "BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities" (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • "Blockchain smart contracts for supply chain finance: Mapping the innovation potential in Australia-China beef supply chains" (2022, Journal of Industrial Information Integration)

Marcus Foth has also authored books published by Queensland University of Technology, including "DIY & More-than-Human Media Architecture, Allegories, Entanglements & Speculative Practice" (2021) and "Activating Townsville's Creative Underground" (2025).

They have been recognized as an ACM Senior Member since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Can cities become smart without being sustainable? A systematic review of the literature

    Tan Yigitcanlar;Md. Kamruzzaman;Marcus Foth;Jamile Sabatini-Marques

  • Gamification and serious games within the domain of domestic energy consumption: A systematic review

    Daniel Johnson;Ella Horton;Rory Mulcahy;Marcus Foth

  • Urban informatics

    Marcus Foth;Jaz Hee-jeong Choi;Christine Satchell

  • From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement

    Marcus Foth;Laura Forlano;Christine Satchell;Martin Gibbs

  • Libraries as coworking spaces: Understanding user motivations and perceived barriers to social learning

    Mark Bilandzic;Marcus Foth

  • Networked Individualism of Urban Residents: Discovering the communicative ecology in inner-city apartment buildings

    Marcus Foth;Greg Hearn

  • Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

    Marcus Foth

  • Applications and implementations of new media in corporate communications: An action research approach

    Greg Hearn;Marcus Foth;Heather Leona Gray

  • Motivating domestic energy conservation through comparative, community-based feedback in mobile and social media

    Petromil Petkov;Felix Köbler;Marcus Foth;Helmut Krcmar

  • Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

    Marcus Foth;Martin Brynskov;Timo Ojala

  • Digital Storytelling and History Lines: Community Engagement in a Master-Planned Development

    Helen Klaebe;Marcus Foth;Jean Burgess;Mark Bilandzic

  • The Second Life of urban planning? Using NeoGeography tools for community engagement

    Marcus Foth;Bhishna Bajracharya;Ross Brown;Greg Hearn

  • CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems

    Mark Bilandzic;Marcus Foth;Alexander De Luca

  • People, content, location: sweet spotting urban screens for situated engagement

    Ronald Schroeter;Marcus Foth;Christine Satchell

  • More-than-human participation: design for sustainable smart city futures

    Rachel Clarke;Sara Heitlinger;Ann Light;Laura Forlano

  • Participatory Design and Action Reseach: Identical Twins or Synergetic Pair?

    Marcus Foth;Jeff Axup

  • Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism

    Shoufeng Cao;Warwick Powell;Marcus Foth;Valeri Natanelov

  • Augmenting public participation: enhancing planning outcomes through the use of social media and web 2.0

    Joel Fredericks;Marcus Foth

  • Action Research in the Design of New Media and ICT Systems

    Gregory N. Hearn;Marcus Foth

  • Participatory urban informatics: towards citizen-ability

    Marcus Foth

  • Extending Australia's digital divide policy: an examination of the value of social inclusion and social capital policy frameworks

    Tanya M. Notley;Marcus Foth

  • Engaging energy saving through motivation-specific social comparison

    Petromil Petkov;Felix Köbler;Marcus Foth;Richard Medland

  • Network action research

    Marcus Foth

  • Citizen's Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

    Marcus Foth;Martin Brynskov;Timo Ojala

Frequent Co-Authors

Andry Rakotonirainy
Andry Rakotonirainy Queensland University of Technology
Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology
Eric Paulos
Eric Paulos University of California, Berkeley
Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo Georgia Institute of Technology
Helmut Krcmar
Helmut Krcmar Technical University of Munich
Wendy Ju
Wendy Ju Cornell University
Martin Gibbs
Martin Gibbs University of Melbourne
Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish University of California, Irvine
Jesper Kjeldskov
Jesper Kjeldskov Monash University

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