I am always looking for smart people who would like to conduct higher degree research (PhD or MPhil) in urban informatics, smart cities, human-computer interaction design, ubiquitous computing, pervasive technology, tangible media, social networks, location-based services, context awareness, mobile applications, urban design, and related topics. You are welcome to propose your own topic and discuss it with me, or consider aligning yourself with one of our group's current projects, or choose one of the topics that we are currently interested in.
Humanising the Smart City: Technology as Enabler of Participatory Bottom-Up Citizen Innovation in Urban Development, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth, Dr Ronald Schroeter, and Dr Markus Rittenbruch
The New Precursors of Innovation: Lifestyle, Travel, Coworking, and Fun, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Prof. Greg Hearn
Do Touch – The Impact of Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction on Situated Community Engagement, supervised by Dr Jared Donovan, Dr Markus Rittenbruch, and Prof. Marcus Foth
Challenging Gentrification: Novel Means for Community to Propose Alternative Land Uses, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Dr Markus Rittenbruch
Imagining the Unseen City: A Participatory Ethnographic Study to Reveal Marginal Constructions of Nocturnal Urban Space, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Dr Peta Mitchell
Connecting to Self, Others and Environment: Coaching Well-being and Energy Efficiency in Low-Income Households, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth, Assoc. Prof. Evonne Miller, and Dr Paul Bain
Social Interactions and Engagement within the Home: A study into the Use of Novel Design Methods to Encourage Social Engagement around Domestic Energy Use, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Assoc. Prof. Gavin Sade
Intermediation as Practice: Joining the Dots between Community, Culture and Commerce, supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Prof. Greg Hearn
Re-designing Interfaces between Nature, the Public and Policy: The Role of the Creative Producer, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Gavin Sade and Prof. Marcus Foth
Risky Gadgets to the Rescue: Reframing In-Car Technology Use as Task Engagement (eprints >), supervised by Dr Ronald Schroeter and Prof. Marcus Foth
Participatory Data Analytics: Designing Visualisation and Composition Interfaces for Collaborative Sensemaking on Large Interactive Screens (eprints >), supervised by Dr Markus Rittenbruch and Prof. Marcus Foth
Street Interventions for Change: Designing with Grassroots Organisations (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth, Assoc. Prof. Gavin Sade, and Dr Jaz Choi
Media Architecture: Facilitating the Co-Creation of Place (eprints >), supervised by Dr Mirko Guaralda, Dr Jennifer Seevinck, and Prof. Marcus Foth
Influencing Public Transport Passenger Experiences via Mobile Social Services (eprints >), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dian Tjondronegoro and Prof. Marcus Foth
Technology-Mediated Tools for Shaping Experiences in Urban Commuter Trains (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth, Prof. Andry Rakotonirainy, and Dr Markus Rittenbruch
Growing Food in the City: A Study Across Interaction Design and Urban Agriculture (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Dr Jaz Choi
Mobile Interaction Design Approaches for Reducing Domestic Food Waste (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Dr Jaz Choi
Understanding the Implications of Digital Interactions on the Design of Public Urban Spaces (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Marcus Foth and Assoc. Prof. Evonne Miller
Connecting People to their Resource Consumption through Real-Time Data Visualisations (eprints >), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth and Prof. Paul Roe
The Embodied Hybrid Space: Designing Social and Digital Interventions to Facilitate Connected Learning in Coworking Spaces (eprints >), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth, Dr Daniel Johnson, and Dr Ronald Schroeter
Influencing the Experience of People in Urban Public Places through Mobile Mediated Interactions (eprints >), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth and Assoc. Prof. Dian Tjondronegoro
Discussions in Space: Interactive Urban Screens for Enhancing Citizen Engagement (eprints >), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth, Prof. Paul Roe, and Dr Christine Satchell
Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul (eprints >), supervised by Distinguished Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Assoc. Prof. Michael Keane, and Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth
The Present via the Past: An Archaelogical Approach to Analysing the Design and Use of a Contemporary Urban Village (eprints >), supervised by Prof. Greg Hearn and Dr Marcus Foth