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Head of the Research Department Design Research eXplorations

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Organizational unit Design Research eXplorations
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Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Publications

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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Textile Game Controller: Smart knee pads for Therapeutic Exercising

Esther Zahn; Hannah Friederike Fischer; Clara Elisabeth Gleiß; Eleftherios Avramidis; Gesche Joost

In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA-23), April 23-28, Hamburg, Germany, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4/2023.

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MoCaPose: Motion Capturing with Textile-integrated Capacitive Sensors in Loose-fitting Smart Garments

Bo Zhou; Daniel Geissler; Marc Faulhaber; Clara Elisabeth Gleiss; Esther Friederike Zahn; Lala Ray; David Gamarra; Vitor Fortes Rey; Sungho Suh; Sizhen Bian; Gesche Joost; Paul Lukowicz

In: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Vol. 7, No. 1, Pages 1-40, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3/2023.

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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…

  • 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