Markus Kattenbeck is currently working on his Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship awarded to him as part of the EU’s H2020 research funding program.

Find out more about this project on his research blog!

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 Behavioral Geography and Geographic Information Science to Human-Computer-Interaction. His research interests include but are not restricted to:

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

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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

• 1st International Workshop on Spatial HCI and Geographic-Aware Technologies (SPAGAT21); co-organized together with Peter Kiefer (ETH Zrich), 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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