Associate Professor
Markus Rittenbruch
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design
Biography
Dr Markus Rittenbruch is an Associate Professor in Interaction Design and the acting Research Coordinator for the School of Design. He leads the program for Emerging Technologies at the QUT Design Lab . He has over 25 years of research experience in the fields of Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). Before joining QUT he has been invited to work 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 (now CSIRO/Data61). Markus was one of the project leads at the Cube, a cutting-edge interactive learning and visualisation facility, responsible for the development of a flexible large-scale presentation and collaboration framework that uses the Cube’s large multi-touch display surfaces. He is a chief investigator in a number of recent research projects, and has attracted over $1.1M in research funding over the last three years. Current project include:- CRCSI (CRC for Spatial Information) Utilisation Project: Integrated City Planning using the RAISE toolkit (2017-2018).
- CRCSI (CRC for Spatial Information) Major Project: Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit (2016-2017).
- QLD Gov Link Project, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Developing a message strategy to improve hand hygiene compliance (2017-2018).
- RIRDC (Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation) Detecting opportunities and challenges for Australian agricultural and Rural Industries (2016-2018).
Markus' research particularly focusses on the design and evaluation of large-scale collaborative systems, collaborative visualisation systems, human-robot collaboration, ambient, ubiquitous and physical computing, natural user interfaces, large-screen multi-touch interfaces and innovative ways of interfacing with and visualising sensors and sensor data. Markus has published over 60 peer-reviewed book chapters, journals articles and conference papers, including publications in the leading journals in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction Journal) and CSCW (Journal on Computer Supported Cooperative Work) and leading conferences in Ubicomp, HCI and Interaction Design.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor in Interaction Design
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design
Keywords
Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Collaborative Data Visualisation, Tangible and Embodied Interaction, Human-Robot Collaboration, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing, Urban Informatics
Discipline
Design Practice and Management, Information Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- Diplom Informatiker (University of Bonn)
Teaching
Current units
Previous units
- DXB203 - Introduction to Web Design, Unit Coordinator & Lecturer, Interactive and Visual Design, 2016-2018
- DXB401 - Advanced Web Design, Unit Coordinator & Lecturer, Interactive and Visual Design, 2016-present
Previous units
- Interaction Design
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Programming for Visual Designers
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Markus, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- Participatory Visualisation and Assessment of Risks: A Crowdsourcing Approach
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100175
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Augmented Reality experiences in hybrid learning spaces designed to support learner autonomy
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Selen Turkay - Augmented Fabrication: An Industry 4.0 XR Framework for Mass Customisation
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell, Dr Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira - Community-in-the-loop: exploring community experience of artificial intelligence for social good and the implications for ethical development and accountability in developing contexts
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Verena Thomas - Negotiating privacy and trust in the geoaware smart city
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peta Mitchell - Supporting affective connections between elders through Socially Interactive Robots: a design framework
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Associate Professor Jared Donovan - A new perspective of the design of pedestrian bridges, Inspired by Baudelaire's Flâneur
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mirko Guaralda, Professor Marcus Foth - Adopting Design-based Pedagogy Utilising 3D Printing to Develop Integrated STEM Programs in Queensland, Australia
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Rafael Gomez, Dr Natalie Wright
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Humanising the Smart City: Co-Creation Redefined in Pursuit of Systemic Change (2020)
- Visual Analytics for Transcriptional Regulatory Networks (2019)
- Participatory Data Analytics: Designing Visualisation and Composition Interfaces for Collaborative Sensemaking on Large Interactive Screens (2017)
- Technology-Mediated Tools for Shaping Experiences in Urban Commuter Trains (2015)