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, [email protected] 

Task Force Member, Henrik Harder, Associate Professor, [email protected] 

Task Force Member, Hans Jørgen Andersen, Associate Professor, [email protected]

Task Force Member, Thomas B. Moeslund, Associate Professor, [email protected]

Thomas Bjørner, Associate Professor, [email protected]

Kristian Hegner Reinau, Assistant Professor (Dept. 20 and 7), [email protected]

Matthias Rehm, Associate Professor, [email protected]

Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, PhD Fellow, [email protected] 

Simon Wind, PhD Fellow, [email protected] 

Tobias Thyrrestrup, Research Assistant, [email protected]

Cecilie Breinholm Christensen, Scientific Assistant, [email protected]

Valinka Suenson, PhD Fellow, [email protected] 

Anders Sorgenfri Jensen, Research assistant, [email protected]

Niels Thuesen, Resarch assistant,  [email protected]

Ditte Benndix Lang, PhD Fellow, [email protected]

Tino Kastbjerg Stigsen, student assistant, [email protected]

Anders Jørgensen, Research assistant, [email protected]

Rikke Gade, Research assistant, [email protected]

Isak Worre Foged, research assistent, [email protected]

Mads Brath, research assistant, [email protected]

Søren Eskildsen, research assistant, [email protected]

Preben Fihl, Assistant Professor, [email protected]

Esben Skouboe Poulsen, PhD Fellow, [email protected]

Ann Morrison, Assistant Professor, [email protected]

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.