Dr Markus Rittenbruch is an Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the School of Design and the Associate Director of the QUT Design Lab at QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty. 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. 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.