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
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel