Function:

Research assistant in the Pragmatics Department

Activities:

Research assistant and doctoral researcher in the project "Navigating the digital everyday life: Elderly participants' use of mundane technologies in and for social interaction (DigiLife)".

Personal details:

• Since October 2022: PhD student at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Mannheim
• Since April 2022: Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim.
• 2021: Master's degree in Applied Linguistics (University of Münster).
• March-May 2021: Research assistant in the interdisciplinary project "Questioning AI" (University of Hamburg, PI Benneth Müller)
• October 2020-January 2021: Member of the organising committee for the conference “LINKON - Linguistic Congress for Young Researchers” (University of Münster, January 13, 2021)
• 2018: Bachelor's degree in German and Protestant Theology at the University of Münster
• June-July 2018: Research internship as part of the bachelor's thesis (University of Münster, Department of German Studies, Research Unit of Linguistics)
• 2016-2018: Student assistant (University of Münster, Department of German Studies, Research Unit of Literature and Media Didactics)

Research interests:

• Conversational analysis, interactional linguistics, multimodal analysis
• Mundane technologies in human interaction
• Human-Computer-Interaction: Exchange between humans and machines

Teaching:

• Autumn/winter semester 2023: Master's seminar in co-teaching with Prof Florence Oloff: ‘Technology use in social interaction’ at the University of Mannheim

Workshops:

• Summer term 2023: Workshop (students in old age): ‘How we communicate - analysing everyday conversations’ at the University of Münster

Talks:

12.09.2024, Budde, Helena Konstanze: ‘Instructions in everyday life: How older adults learn to use modern technologies’, Section Conference of the Society for Applied Linguistics, 11.9.-13.9.2024, Dresden

13.5.2024, Budde, Helena Konstanze: Everyday instructions in the use of mundane technologies by older adults (Data session), Technologized Interaction Seminar II, 13.-14 May, Helsinki

6.3.2024, Budde, Helena Konstanze: The organisation of multi-activity in the use of everyday technologies (Poster), 60th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, 5.3.-7.3.2024, Mannheim

6.11.2023, Budde, Helena Konstanze: Teaching digital skills with ‘You can do X’, Knowledge in talk-in-interaction Conference, 6-8 November 2023, Lausanne

14.7.2023, Budde, Helena Konstanze / Oloff, Florence: Displaying and solving trouble related to digital devices: Understanding non-experts' smartphone use. Panel: ‘(A)typical users of technology in social
interaction", 18th International Pragmatics Conference, 9-14 July 2023, Brussels

5.5.2023, Teaching digital skills with ‘You can do X’ (Data session), 7th network meeting for doctoral students in conversation research, 5-6 May 2023, online

15.3.2023, New technologies in the everyday life of older adults (Poster), 59th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, 14.3.-16.3.2023, Mannheim

28.9.2022, The interactive processing of implicit comprehension problems in dealing with new technologies (Poster), Section Conference of the Society for Applied Linguistics, 28.9.-30.9.2022, Würzburg

Conference reports:

Budde, Helena Konstanze / Hendricks, Dominic / Reis de Souza, Marina (2023):
Report on the 18th conference of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) from 9-14 July 2023 in Brussels (Belgium). In: Conversation Research - Online Journal on Verbal Interaction, 24th ed. (= Conversation Research 2023). Göttingen: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. S. 181-194.

Budde, Helena Konstanze / Lohmer, Vivien / Klatt, Marie (2022):
Report on the 5th meeting of the Network for Doctoral Candidates in Conversation Research (DokGF). In: Conversation Research - Online Journal on Verbal Interaction, 23rd ed. (= Conversation Research 2022). Göttingen: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. S. 275-288.

Funding:

Budde, Helena Konstanze / Rogowska, Jowita (2023): Funding from the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL e. V.) for the organisation of a GAL Research School on the topic of Interactional Research in the Context of methodological and technical Innovations