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Head of the Research Department Design Research eXplorations

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Organizational unit Design Research eXplorations
Contact +49 30 23895 1170 (Berlin)

Address (Berlin) DFKI Labor Berlin - HauptgebäudeAlt-Moabit 91cD-10559 Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Publications

Co-designing a Tangible Communication Device to Enrich Communication over Distance

Hannah Friederike Fischer; Anke Königschulte; Jana Koch; Serge Autexier; Gesche Joost

In: Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS-2024), November 27-31, Vancouver BC Canada, Canada, Pages 58-62, ISBN 9798400712784, ACM, 10/2024.

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Embedding Textile Capacitive Sensing into Smart Wearables as a Versatile Solution for Human Motion Capturing

Daniel Geißler; Bo Zhou; Hymalai Bello; Joanna Sorysz; Lala Ray; Hamraz Javaheri; Matthias Rüb; Jan Herbst; Esther Zahn; Emil Woop; Sizhen Bian; Hans Dieter Schotten; Gesche Joost; Paul Lukowicz

In: Nature Scientific Reports (Sci Rep), Vol. 14, No. 15797, Pages 1-14, Springer Nature, 2024.

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MoCa'Collection: Normalizing Dynamic Textile Geometry with Capacitive Sensing in Design Centric Wearables

Daniel Geißler; Esther Zahn; Hymalai Bello; Lala Ray; Emil Woop; Bo Zhou; Paul Lukowicz; Gesche Joost

In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing. ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC-2023), UbiComp, located at UbiComp / ISWC 2023, October 8-12, Cancún, Mexico, Mexico, UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct, Vol. 276–280, ISBN 9798400702006, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10/2023.

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Profile

Gesche Joost has headed the Design Research eXplorations research department since 2016 and has been Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2011, where she heads the Design Research Lab. Since 2017 she has been a member of the board of the Einstein Center Digital Future Berlin and of the Steering Committee of the Weizenbaum Institute for Networked Society, where she conducts research on digital sovereignty and manufacturer culture.

She is chairwoman of the German Society for Design Theory and Research and a member of the board of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. From 2014 to 2018, she was the Federal Government's Internet Ambassador to the European Commission. She is a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Goethe-Institut. In 2016, she founded Calliope gGmbH, which offers digital learning to children from the third grade onwards.

2009   Young Talent Award for Science (Award of the City of Berlin)
2006   Award as one of the “100 minds of tomorrow” within the initiative of the Federal Government “Germany – Land of Ideas”.

  • Minodu

    Nachhaltiges Landmanagement in Subsahara-Afrika: Durch Forschung vor Ort Lebensgrundlagen verbessern

    Klimawandel und stetiger Zuwachs der Weltbevölkerung stellen die Anforderungen des nachhaltigen Landmanagements und die Schonung natürlicher Ressourcen vor große Herausforderungen. Während zahlreiche…

    Minodu

  • OrthoSuPer

    Sichere Datenplattform und intelligente Sensorik für die Versorgung der Zukunft in der Orthopädie

    Muskel-Skelett-Erkrankungen, vor allem Rücken- und Knieleiden, sind in Deutschland einer der häufigsten diagnostizierten Krankheiten. Zum Teil auch arbeitsbedingt, sind diese für einen großen Teil der…

    OrthoSuPer

  • MYOW

    MYOW - Make your own wearables

    The goal of the joint project "MYOW - Make your Own Wearables" is to bring together designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers to develop personalized wearables in a digital service space.…

    MYOW

  • TexaS

    Baukasten für multifunktionale textiladaptierte Elektroniksysteme - Entwicklung eines Interposers für Modulare System für Smart Textiles

    The main objective of the project is to eliminate current disturbances and problems in the research field of electronic textiles and thus to advance microsystems technology in the textile sector in…

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Portraitbild Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost – Bildquelle: Universität der Künste Berlin© Universität der Künste Berlin

Portraitbild Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost