Profile and Research

As a linguist and semiotician, I am interested not only in how humans and machines interact and communicate their intentions through signs (e.g., language, gestures, or images) on multiple levels, but also in how such human–machine interaction feeds back into human–human interaction. As the holder of the Chair of German Linguistics, Semiotics, and Multimodal Communication, I served as a board member of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1410 Hybrid Societies from 2020 to 2022 and am currently project leader of Subproject D01 Intentionality and Joint Attention in Multimodal Interaction. Previously, I was a member of a four-person steering committee from 2015 to 2017 involved in the re-profiling of the university-wide research core competency Human and Technology. I intend to continue this initiative as a board member of the newly established Center for Human and Technology. Within the research core competency Human and Technology, I see myself particularly as the contact person for the two subareas New Media, Digital Practices, and Methods and Technology Reflection and History of Technology, which are assigned to the MeTech focus area Foundations of Human–Technology Interaction.

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