Biography

Markus Kattenbeck has been leading the Spatial-HCI Lab at the TU Wien’s Division of Geoinformation since May 2019. From 3/2022-8/2024 he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow as part of the European Commission’s H2020 Actions (see his research blog about the project). Prior to his appointment as Lead of the Spatial-HCI Lab he was working as a Postdoctoral Researcher and study coordinator of the Digital Humanities Master’s Programme at the University of Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). He defended his PhD on empirical measurement of salience for pedestrian navigation in 2016 at this University. Markus holds a Master’s degree in Information Science and Comparative European Ethnology from this university. His undergraduate studies were funded by a fellowship by the Bavarian government – including a 10 months study abroad at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. His research is highly interdiscplinary, touching on GIScience, Spatial Cognition, Behavioral Geography, and Human-Computer Interaction. His research interests include but are not restricted to:

• Spatial Human-Computer Interaction
• Human Wayfinding Behavior
  
• Eye and Body Tracking
• Location-based Services and Human Information Behaviour
• Empirical Methods for Human Subject Experiments (quantitative and qualitative)
• Visualization of large scale geographic data
• Sensor fusion

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Community Service (Selected)

Reviewer

• International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
• Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation (SCC)
• Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS)
• ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
  
• International Conference on Computer-Human Interactive Information Retrieval (CHIIR)
• ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

Conferences

• Doctoral Mentoring Programme Chair for COSIT 2022 (Kobe, Japan)
• Workshop Co-Chair for CHIIR 2020 (Vancouver, Canada)
• General Co-Chair for COSIT 2019 (Regensburg, Germany)
• Local Chair for IIiX 2014 (Regensburg, Germany)

Workshops

• Humans in the City: Artificial Intelligence Research and Urban Environments (AI-HUE ’24); co-organized together with Negar Alinaghi (TU Wien), Ana Basiri (University of Glasgow), and Ioannis Giannopoulos (TU Wien)
• 1st International Workshop on Spatial HCI and Geographic-Aware Technologies (SPAGAT21); co-organized together with Peter Kiefer (ETH Zurich), Bartosz Mazurkiewicz (TU Wien), Ioannis Giannopoulos (TU Wien)
• 2020 Workshop Co-Chair of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Computer Interactive Information Retrieval 2020, together with David Elsweiler (Univ. of Regensburg)
• 2019 General Co-Chair of COSIT 2019, together with Kathleen Stewart (Univ. of Maryland) and Bernd Ludwig (Univ. of Regensburg)
• 2018: Making Salience Personal – In Search for Personalized Landmarks (satellite event to AGILE 2018; organized together with Eva Nuhn (Augsburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Sabine Timpf (Augsburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig (Regensburg, Germany)

Steering Committee

• Conference on Spatial Information Theory

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