Martin Murer is an interaction designer and researcher at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg, where he focuses on craft and technology. As a developer, designer, and researcher, he is established in an international research and design community that aims to make computation tangible. Through his personal experiences around the creative usage of computation and electronics, he developed an urge to rethink and reshape academic infrastructures as innovation spaces and open them up to broader audiences. He was a visiting researcher at the CRAFT Lab at Stockholm University and a research associate and teaching assistant at the Viennese Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology. Mr. Murer holds a degree in information design from the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum Graz, Austria, and currently pursues a Ph.D. that addresses the intersections between craft and technology.
