Publications

Books

Media Architecture Compendium Volume 2: Concepts, Methods, Practice

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Glenda Caldwell, Martin Tomitsch, M Hank Haeusler, Dave Colangelo, Martijn de Waal, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Marcus Foth, Luke Hespanhol, Marius Hoggenmueller, Gernot Tscherteu

Year: 2023

Publisher: avedition

Book Chapters

Urban Interfaces

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Andrew Vande Moere

Year: 2024

Publisher: CRC Press

Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement

Authors: Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks

Year: 2021

Publisher: Academic Press

Putting the people back into the “smart”: Developing a middle-out framework for engaging citizens

Authors: Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks, Luke Hespanhol, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, María José Sánchez Varela Barajas, María José Castelazo André

Year: 2021

Publisher: Academic Press

Redefining community engagement in smart cities: design patterns for a smart engagement ecosystem

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, M Hank Haeusler

Year: 2020

Publisher: IGI Global

From Smart City to Smart Engagement: Exploring Digital and Physical Interactions for Playful City-Making

Author: Joel Fredericks

Year: 2020

Publisher: Springer

The city as perpetual beta: Fostering systemic urban acupuncture

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Martin Tomitsch

Year: 2019

Publisher: Springer

Finding the Human Factor in Digital Placemaking: A Research Journey through the Digital Nexus

Authors: Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks

Year: 2017

Publisher: avedition

Edited Special Issues of Journals

The Digital Fringe and Social Participation Through Interaction Design

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marius Hoggenmüller

Journal: The Journal of Community Informatics

Year: 2018

Publisher: University of Waterloo

The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Glenda Caldwell, Callum Parker

Journal: Urban Planning

Year: 2025

Publisher: Cogitatio Press

Journal Articles

The built environment and social media: a semi-systematic review of architectural and design disciplines

Authors: Tracy Huang, Sophia Maalsen, Joel Fredericks

Journal: Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research

Year: 2025

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

AI-Supported Participatory Workshops: Middle-Out Engagement for Crisis Events

Authors: Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmüller, Alexandra Crosby, Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu, Weidong Huang

Journal: Urban Planning

Year: 2025

Publisher: Cogitatio Press

Non-human personas: Including nature in the participatory design of smart cities

Authors: Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Dan Vo, Jessica Frawley, Marcus Foth

Journal: Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal

Year: 2021

Publisher: Scuola IaD

Blending pop-up urbanism and participatory technologies: Challenges and opportunities for inclusive city making

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Luke Hespanhol, Callum Parker, Dawei Zhou, Martin Tomitsch

Journal: City, Culture and Society

Year: 2018

Publisher: Elsevier

Design Patterns for Integrating Digitally Augmented Pop-ups with Community Engagement

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Laura Stewart

Journal: International Journal of E-Planning Research

Year: 2017

Publisher: IGI Global

Augmenting public participation: enhancing planning outcomes through the use of social media and web 2.0

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth

Journal: Australian Planner

Year: 2013

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Conference Papers

Voice, Embodiment, and the Relational Roles of AI Agents in Sci-Fi Films: Implications for Representing the More-than-Human

Authors: Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2025

Publisher: ACM

Rethinking Urban Safety: Exploring The Design of Safety Robots from Women’s Perspectives

Authors: Zhang Qiuming, Xinyan Yu, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmueller

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Beyond Human Interaction: A Contextual Review of Conversational Agents to Represent More-Than-Human Perspectives

Authors: Adrian Wong, Julia Spyrou, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Interior Media Architecture: Using Social Media as a Tool for Data Informed Design Solutions

Authors: Tracy Huang, Joel Fredericks, Sophia Maalsen

Conference: Media Architecture Biennale

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Exploring Participatory Design for Urban Community Gardens

Authors: John Marcel Gemperle, Marius Hoggenmueller, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Media Architecture Biennale

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

A COVID-19 horizon scan looking for post-pandemic implications for design

Authors: Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Cumulus, International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

Year: 2021

The impact of hyperconnectedness on urban HCI: challenges and opportunities

Authors: Callum Parker, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2019

Publisher: ACM

Let’s take a selfie: Design Considerations for Public Selfie Booths

Authors: Callum Parker, Joel Fredericks, Soojeong Yoo, Marius Hoggenmueller

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2019

Publisher: ACM

Towards adaptive height-aware public interactive displays

Authors: Callum Parker, Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Soojeong Yoo

Conference: Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalisation

Year: 2017

Designing for Self-Representation: Selfies, Engagement and Situated Technologies

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2017

Middle-Out Design: Collaborative Community Engagement in Urban HCI

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2016

Publisher: ACM

Not Just Pretty Lights: Using Digital Technologies to Inform City Making

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Media Architecture Biennale

Year: 2016

Publisher: ACM

Digital pop-up: Investigating bespoke community engagement in public spaces

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Luke Hespanhol, Ian McArthur

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2015

Publisher: ACM

Vote as you go: blending interfaces for community engagement into the urban space

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch, Ian McArthur, Joel Fredericks, Ronald Schroeter, Marcus Foth

Conference: International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T)

Year: 2015

Publisher: ACM

Workshops and Workshop Papers

The Third Workshop on Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Mark Colley, Youngho Lee, Khanh-Duy Le, Simon Stannus, Woontack Woo, Mark Billinghurst

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2025

Publisher: ACM

Engaging Human and Non-Human Perspectives in Crisis Resilience: Designing AI-Supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making

Authors: Adrian Wong, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Callum Parker, Marius Hoggenmueller, Nate Zettna, Carlos Alfredo Tirado Cortes, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks

Work Shop: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2025

Publisher: ACM

Building a metaverse for all: Opportunities and challenges for future inclusive and accessible virtual environments

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Julie R Williamson, Youngho Lee, Woontack Woo

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Designing smart over a distance for sustainable communities: Reflecting on AI, the Metaverse, and the role of HCI for addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Hilary Davis, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Alexandra Crosby

Conference: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI)

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Towards an inclusive and accessible metaverse

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Youngho Lee, Joel Fredericks, Arindam Dey, Youngjun Cho, Mark Billinghurst

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Designing Smart for sustainable and resilient communities: the role of participatory design in addressing the UN sustainable development goals

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Hilary Davis, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Participatory Design Conference

Year: 2022

Publisher: ACM

Bringing Sustainability-Sensitivity into the Design of Public Interfaces: Opportunities and Challenges

Authors: Marius Hoggenmueller, Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Work Shop: SelfSustainableCHI: Sustainable Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions

Year: 2020

Designing smart for sustainable communities: Reflecting on the role of HCI for addressing the sustainable development goals

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Callum Parker, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Hilary Davis, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI)

Year: 2019

Publisher: ACM

#thismymob: Preserving and promoting indigenous Australian cultural heritage

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Christopher Lawrence

Conference: Mobile HCI Conference

Work Shop: Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage 2018

Year: 2018

Digital outreach: designing technologies for diversity, participation and social inclusion

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Glenda A Caldwell, Marius Hoggenmueller

Conference: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI)

Year: 2017

Publisher: ACM

Designing participation for the digital fringe

Authors: Hilary Davis, Luke Hespanhol, Jane Farmer, Joel Fredericks, Glenda A Caldwell, Marius Hoggenmueller

Conference: International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T)

Year: 2017

Publisher: ACM

Other Publications

Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch, Ian McArthur, Joel Fredericks, Ronald Schroeter, Marcus Foth

Journal: Interactions

Year: 2015

Publisher: ACM

Traditional consultation is dead

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Kylie Cochrane

Journal: Water: Journal of the Australian Water Association

Year: 2015

Publisher: Australian Water Association