Biography

Markus Kattenbeck has been leading the Spatial-HCI lab at the TU Wien’s Division of Geoinformation since May 2019. Prior to his appointment 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, during which he studied at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia for 10 months time, were funded by the Bavarian government. His publications touch on different research areas ranging from Human Information Behaviour and Geographic Information Science to Human-Computer-Interaction. His research interests include but are not restricted to:

• Spatial HCI
• LBS and Human Information Behaviour
• Spatial Cognition
• Wayfinding/Navigation of pedestrians
• Eye Tracking
• Empirical Methods

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Community Service

Reviewer

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

Conferences

• Workshop Co-Chair for CHIIR 2020 (Vancouver, Canada)
• General Co-Chair for COSIT 2019 (Regensburg, Germany)
• Local Chair for IIiX 2014 (Regensburg, Germany)

Workshops

• 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)

Tutorials

• 2019: Tutorial on PLS Path Modeling for Information Retrieval at ECIR ’18
• 2018: Tutorial on PLS Path Modeling for Information Retrieval at CHIIR ’18

Symposia

• Coorganizer of the IX. Regensburger Symposiums 2017 (Title: “Why scientific communication is a success”)

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