Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost ist Professorin für Designforschung an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Seit 2005 leitet sie das Design Research Lab an den Deutschen Telekom Laboratories, An-Institut der TU Berlin. Gemeinsam mit internationalen Partnern entwickelt sie Forschungs- und Lehrprojekte zu den Themen Human-Computer-Interaction, zu Gender- und Diversity Aspekten in der Technologie-Entwicklung sowie zur audio-visuellen Rhetorik der Medien. Bis 2010 war sie als Juniorprofessorin für „Interaction Design & Media“ an der TU Berlin, als Gastprofessorin lehrte sie 2008 das Thema „Gender und Design“ an der HAWK Hildesheim. Kürzlich veröffentlichte sie die Publikationen „Bild-Sprache. Die audio-visuelle Rhetorik des Films“ sowie „Design als Rhetorik“. 2008 erhielt sie den Nachwuchs-Wissenschaftspreis des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin. Sie ist Vorsitzende der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung e.V. | English

	Notation protocols of the publication: Gesche Joost: Bild-Sprache. Die audio-visuelle Rhetorik des Films, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008
	Audio-visual Rhetoric. A metatheoretical approach to design Paper, “Wonderground“ conference, Design Research Society, 2006, in Lissabon
	Design as Rhetoric. Basic Principles for Design Research. Paper, Symposium of Swiss Design Network, 2007
	Audio-visual Rhetoric: A Pattern Language for HCI Paper on ISCA conference, Berlin, 2006
	Notation Protocols for Selected Commercials Additional material for publication on DRS conference, 2008
	List of Publications
	Design Research Lab

Selected Research Projects (Running)

G - Gender Inspired Technology

Exploration of female needs towards information and communication technology (ICT) based on a participatory design process; development of new services and products for female customers in ICT.

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

Design Research Network

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 

Tactile Interaction

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: Visualizing the Pattern Language of Film

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

Generation 50+

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

Sustainability / Eco Mobile

Viewing the mobile phone as a “green activator” we are exploring systems and services to facilitate sustainable behavior in every day life.

Project Partners: Stanford University, USA, Terry Winograd; Gifu University, Japan, Andreas Schneider
Start: 06/2008
Eco-Mobile (Finished)

Selected Research Projects (Finished)

ePaper

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.

Easy2Use

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.

PIUI

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.

Blogs

http://www.eco-mobile.net/

 

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.