Mobility and Tracking Technologies

Research Cluster for Mobility and Tracking Technologies (MoTT) 

At the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology and in association with the Centre for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS), Aalborg University the interdisciplinary Research Cluster for Mobility and Tracking Technologies (MoTT) works to explore the technical and social perspectives of new tracking and location based technologies. MoTT aims therefore to design, implement and test tracking technologies in the context of contemporary mobility. The cluster works across fields such as urban geography, urban design, mobility studies, city planning, computer vision, social signal processing, and data visualization etc. It explores technologies such as GPS, RFID, Bluetooth, etc. The research cluster’s work covers five general themes:

I. Tracking and Location Based Technologies - exploring new hardware and software for understanding mobility

II. Mobile Methods - innovation, reflection and development of new tracking and location based methods

III. Representing location-based data - exploring theoretical and methodological implications of processing, visualizing and representing location based data

IV. Theorizing the meaning of Tracking and Location Based Technologies to Mobility in the Network Society

V. Ethics, Surveillance and New Tracking Technologies

The work thereby span the exploration and application of new technologies, methodological innovations related to these, as well as the development of theories and explanatory models to enhance the understanding of these technologies and their societal importance and impact.

Task Force Member and Director, Ole B. Jensen, Professor, obje@create.aau.dk 

Task Force Member, Henrik Harder, Associate Professor, hhar@create.aau.dk 

Task Force Member, Hans Jørgen Andersen, Associate Professor, hja@create.aau.dk

Task Force Member, Thomas B. Moeslund, Associate Professor, tbm@create.aau.dk

Thomas Bjørner, Associate Professor, tbj@create.aau.dk

Kristian Hegner Reinau, Assistant Professor (Dept. 20 and 7), reinau@plan.aau.dk

Matthias Rehm, Associate Professor, matthias@create.aau.dk

Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, PhD Fellow, askn@create.aau.dk 

Simon Wind, PhD Fellow, swin@create.aau.dk 

Tobias Thyrrestrup, Research Assistant, tobias.thyrrestrup@gmail.com

Cecilie Breinholm Christensen, Scientific Assistant, cbch@create.aau.dk

Valinka Suenson, PhD Fellow, vsue@create.aau.dk 

Anders Sorgenfri Jensen, Research assistant, asje@create.aau.dk

Niels Thuesen, Resarch assistant,  nthu@create.aau.dk

Ditte Benndix Lang, PhD Fellow, dbla@create.aau.dk

Tino Kastbjerg Stigsen, student assistant, tstigs07@student.aau.dk

Anders Jørgensen, Research assistant, andjor@create.aau.dk

Rikke Gade, Research assistant, rg@create.aau.dk

Isak Worre Foged, research assistent, iwfo@create.aau.dk

Mads Brath, research assistant, mbje@create.aau.dk

Søren Eskildsen, research assistant, se@create.aau.dk

Preben Fihl, Assistant Professor, fihl@create.aau.dk

Ann Morrison, Assistant Professor, morrison@create.aau.dk

Esben Skouboe Poulsen, PhD Fellow, esben@electrotexture.org

All key members of staff has employment at the ad:mt department but the cluster is as mentioned affiliated to the Centre of Mobility and Urban Studies which is a cross-faculty and interdisciplinary centre hosted at Aalborg University that is expected to be able to benefit to the cluster’s activities and further work.