Portraitfoto Jan Dittrich

Jan Dittrich

Learning Skills with Media Instructions

Jan Dittrich researches how people use instructions to acquire skills. To do this, he compares the use of recipes for gluten-free baking with the use of instructions for programming. Instead of assuming a separation between planning and execution, it is assumed that this skillful action requires the coordination of attention and situation (Ingold 2001) as well as reflection in the action itself (Schön 1982).

Research Interests
  • Situated Cognition and Learning
  • Non-Abstract Knowledges
  • Creative-, Participatory-, and Collaborative Research
  • Innovation- and Tech Cultures
Vita
  • 2016 – 2022
    UX Designer/Researcher at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • 2013 – 2015
    Scientific Assistant at the Professorship for Instructional Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar
  • 2012 – 2015
    M.F.A. Media Arts and Media Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar
  • 2009 – 2012
    B.F.A. Media Arts and Media Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar
Publications
  • 2012
    Research Paper Kulik, Dittrich, Fröhlich: The Hold-and-Move Gesture for Multi-touch Interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI ’12). pp. 49–58, September 2012.
Talks, Workshops and Events
  • 18.08.2020
    Talk Five reasons why we think Agre’s ‘Surveillance and Capture’ is a classic STS papermit Lisa Conrad at the Paneldiscussion Panel on Classic STS Papers, University of Lüneburg
Teaching
  • Summer Term 2023 U Bremen
    Seminar User Experience Research
  • Winter Term 2022/23 U Bremen
    Seminar Creating Games and Computer Arts as a Medium for KuWis
  • Winter Term 2020/21 Leuphana U Lüneburg
    Seminar Algorithms and Activities
  • Winter Term 2013/14 Bauhaus U Weimar
    Werkmodul Human Centered Design Research
  • Summer Term 2013 Bauhaus U Weimar
    Werkmodul Human Centered Design Research
  • Winter Term 2012/13 Bauhaus U Weimar
    Werkmodul Human Centered Design Research
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf