Research

Research interests

My research interest – originating from usability and technology enhanced learning – focuses on everyday design e. g. design in everyday life by non-designers. My phd thesis “Lernende als Designer” (Learners as designers) is about that.

Publications and conference contributions

You’ll find some of the listed papers here:
independent.academia.edu/JanHenningRaff/Papers
Otherwise, send me an email if you are interested in a personal copy.

  • Raff, Jan-Henning & Melles, Gavin (in press). Design without designers. Design Philosophy Papers.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning; Huber, Jochen & Steimle, Jürgen (in press). Media disruptions as a support for learning. Interdisciplinary approaches to technology-enhanced learning. Münster: Waxmann.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning & Melles, Gavin (2010). Everyday design as practive. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 3 (2), 149-159.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning & Wölfel, Christian (2010). How useful is user experience as a concept for design practice? 21th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
  • Hammel, Katharina; Köhlmann-Eckel, Christiane; Raff, Jan-Henning & Köhler, Thomas (2010). BLok – Interface Design einer Applikation zur Stärkung der Lernortkooperation und Sicherung der Qualität in der dualen Berufsausbildung. UDay VIII: Eintauchen in Medienwelten.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2010). Studentisch inszenierte Lernorte, lernstrategisch gesehen. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (pp. 60-71). Bonn: DINI.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2009). Designinnovationen im Lernalltag. In N. Hentsch, G. Kranke, C. Wölfel, J. Krzywinski & F. Drechsel (Eds.), Symposium Technisches Design (pp. 283-289). Dresden: TUDpress.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2008). Skizzenblog: Kollaboratives Skizzieren im Web als informelles Lernangebot. In K. Meißner & M. Engelien (Eds.), GeNeMe 2008 Dresden, Virtuelle Organisation und Neue Medien (pp. 267-272). Dresden: TUDpress.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2008). Sind Lernende Interaktionsdesigner? In U. Lucke, M. C. Kindsmüller, S. Fischer, M. Herczeg & S. Seehusen (Eds.), Workshop Proceedings der Tagungen Mensch & Computer 2008, DeLFI 2008 und Cognitive Design (pp. 28-29). Berlin: Logos.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2008). Skizzenblog: Kollaboratives Skizzieren im Web. In U. Silke Seehusen & S. F. Lucke (Eds.), DeLFI 2008: Die 6. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik (pp. 429-430). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
  • Köhler, Thomas & Raff, Jan-Henning (2008). Online-Konferenzorganisation als Problem kooperativer Wissensorganisation. Erziehungswissenschaft, 19 (36), 52-56.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning (2008). Designing OLAT. OLAT e-Learning Conference. Zürich.
  • Raff, Jan-Henning & Heidenreich, Susanne (2006). Usability ins E-Learning! In G. Kempter & P. von Hellberg (Eds.), uDay IV: Informationen nutzbar machen (pp. 39-42). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publisher.

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