Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost is Professor for Design Research at the University of the Arts Berlin. Until 2010 she has been Professor for the Interaction Design & Media department at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), and since 2005 she has headed the Design Research Lab at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. She manages a team of 20 staff, and as a scientist, she is responsible for design research in the central Innovation department of Deutsche Telekom. She also taught the subject “Gender and Design” as a visiting professor in Hildesheim. Furthermore, she leads several research projects, including projects on tactile human/computer interaction, gender and diversity in ICT, and Design Research. She recently published “Bild-Sprache. Die audio-visuelle Rhetorik des Films” [Picture language. The audio-visual rhetoric of film] as well as “Design als Rhetorik” [Design as rhetoric]. | German
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| Audio-visual Rhetoric. A metatheoretical approach to design |
| Design as Rhetoric. Basic Principles for Design Research. |
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Audio-visual Rhetoric: A Pattern Language for HCI |
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Notation Protocols for Selected Commercials |
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Project Partners: IxDS Berlin, T-Mobile International, Product Design Center DTAG, EAF (Europäische Akademie für Frauen in Politik und Wirtschaft)
Start: 01/2008
Gender Inspired Technology @ DRL
Womans Phone @ DRL
Publications:
Joost, Gesche, Sandra Buchmüller: G - Gender & Design, Sonderpublikation zur Gastvorlesung von Dr. Gesche Joost, HAWK Hildesheim 2008
Joost, Gesche: Gender-Aspekte in der Designausbildung, HAWK Hildesheim Ringvorlesung 2007/2008 Key Competence: Gender, ISBN 978-3-8258-1402-1
The growing numbers of Doctoral and research oriented Masters Programs in Design bring into being new generation of design researchers. The continuous development of Design Research will surely be driven by these research-focused students who will form their own research agendas and practices. The evolving community requires a research and discourse culture adequate to the specific epistemological conditions of design, i.e. it values plurality in points of view and in discourses. To this end, in 2007 we have established the DESIGN RESEARCH NETWORK (DRNetwork) to serve these needs.
Project Partners: Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jonas; University of Dundee, Prof. Mike Press
Start: 05/2007
Designresearchnetwork.org
Haptics become more and more important in HCI aiming at a more intuitive interaction with devices. This project investigates different haptic interactions like multitouch, gesture based interaction or new interaction paradigms with mobile devices.
Project Partners include: IxDS Berlin, Hochschule der Künste Schwäbisch Gmünd, T-Mobile International
Start: 01/2007
Intimate Mobiles @ DRL
Skintimacy @ DRL
Ambient Life @ DRL
Reflective Haptics @ DRL
Audio-visual Rhetoric is a knowledge domain for designers in theory and practice that is valid for all communicative actions through media that aim for persuasion. This project explores the pattern language of film and investigates notation systems to visualize these structures.
Project Partners: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Start: 01/2007
AVRhetorik @ Geschejoost.org
Publications:
Gesche Joost: Bild-Sprache. Die audio-visuelle Rhetorik des Films. Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, 2008
Gesche Joost, Arne Scheuermann (Hrsg.): Design als Rhetorik. Grundlagen, Positionen, Fallstudien, Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008
Qualitative research on users of dect phones aged 50 and older using cultural probes. Based on this research we developed a dect phone and navigation menu that considers the needs and demands this user group.
Project Partners: T-Com, Design 3, BAGSO, Vtech
Product: Dect Phone Sinus A 201
Start: 01/2007
Generation 50+ @ DRL
Investigation of an ePaper news service on a mobile device; concept and implementation of a collaborative filter for news with UI study and business model.
Project Partners: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Start: 05/2006 – 12/2007
Project results are confidential.
Development of an easy-to-use pattern language for interaction patterns across different services and devices for Deutsche Telekom AG.
Project Partners: FH Potsdam, Prof. Frank Heidmann, Fraunhofer IAO
Start: 03/2006 – 03/2008
Project results are confidential.
Research and development for personalized intuitive user interfaces. This project investigated the role and impact of personalized UI concepts for better usability performance.
Project Partners: Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin
Start: 11/2005 – 11/2007
Project results are confidential.
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
Universität der Künste
Design Research Lab
Einsteinufer 43
10587 Berlin
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Many thanks go to Alun Davies for his help with the text on this site.