Anne Catherine Gieshoff Ph.D

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

• cognitive load and effort in conference interpreting
• Extended and mixed realities and visual input in interpreting
• Interpreting and language technologies in health care settings

Teaching

• Descriptive statistics
• Multilingualism in professional contexts (Co-teaching with Andrea Hunziker)
• Seminar in communication science ("Zoom, MS Teams and the Metaverse: Communicating in virtual space")
• ProjektPlus ("The exciting path from idea to software", Co-teaching with Martin Schuler, Marcela Ruiz und Michael Wahler))
• Grundlagen der Sprachmittlung - Mündliche Sprachmittlung (Co-teaching mit Peter Jud, Alexa Lintner, Luisa Carrer, Martin Schuler, Martin Kappus)

Experience

• Project manager for cross-border projects
  Trinational Eurodistrict of Basel
  09 / 2013 - 12 / 2019
• Trainee in translation
  Wohanka & Obermeier
  05 / 2013 - 08 / 2013
• Student Assistant
  University of Mainz, Germany
  04 / 2012 - 03 / 2013

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph.D / interpreting studies
  Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
  01 / 2014 - 07 / 2018
• M.A. conference interpreting / conference interpreting
  Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
  10 / 2010 - 04 / 2013
• Sommerkurs Niederländische Sprache und Kultur
  Taalunie / University of Ghent (Begium)
  08 / 2011 - 08 / 2011
• B.A. Language, Culture and Translation
  Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
  10 / 2007 - 09 / 2010
• study abroad
  Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, Franca
  09 / 2009 - 02 / 2010

Network

Membership of networks

• Translation, Research, Empiricism and Cognition (TREC)
• International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)
• European Society for Translation Studies (EST)

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4383-190X

Social media

• Podcast Minds between Languages
• LinkedIn

Projects

• An interactive tool for Community Interpreter training / Project leader / laufend
• Assessment of multimodal interpreting technologies / Deputy project leader / laufend
• "Zoom" without "fatigue"? / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• The augmented interpreter- a pilot study on the usability of augmented reality in interpreting / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Use of machine translation in healthcare / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT) / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2024.

  English as a lingua franca in interpreting and translation : a survey of practitioners.

  Frontiers in Communication.

  9(1413110).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1413110

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Schuler, Martin; Jahany, Zaniyar,

  2024.

  The augmented interpreter : an exploratory study of the usability of augmented reality technology in interpreting.

  Interpreting.

  26(2), pp. 282-315.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.00108.gie

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2023.

  Cognitive load and cognitive effort : probing the psychological reality of a conceptual difference.

  Translation, Cognition & Behavior.

  6(1), pp. 3-28.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00073.gie

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2022.

  ELF density : extending English as a lingua franca research to monological ELF texts and speeches.

  Applied Linguistics.

  44(3), pp. 505-526.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac058

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Albl-Mikasa, Michaela,

  2022.

  Interpreting accuracy revisited : a refined approach to interpreting performance analysis.

  Perspectives.

  32(2), pp. 210-228.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2022.2088296

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Lehr, Caroline; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2021.

  Stress, cognitive, emotional and ergonomic demands in interpreting and translation.

  Cognitive Linguistic Studies.

  8(2), pp. 404-439.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00084.gie

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  Does it help to see the speaker’s lip movements? : an investigation of cognitive load and mental effort in simultaneous interpreting.

  Translation, Cognition & Behavior.

  4(1), pp. 1-25.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00049.gie

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  The impact of visible lip movements on silent pauses in simultaneous interpreting.

  Interpreting.

  23(2), pp. 168-191.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.00061.gie

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2024.

  Non-standard input in interpreting (research)

  .

  In:

  Mellinger, Christopher D., ed.,

  The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting and Cognition.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 205-223.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429297533-16

• Lehr, Caroline; Kramer, Iris; Delorme Benites, Alice; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Sager, Daniela,

  2023.

  Übersetzungsapps für Pflegende aus dem Ausland : Bedarf – Potenzial – Risiken.

  In:

  Schwerpunkt Angewandte Gerontologie: Mehr Kraft für die Pflege - Massnahmen gegen den Personalmangel, ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek, Winterthur, Schweiz, 7. Dezember 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2023.

  «Machine Translation Literacy» als digitale Kompetenz in der Gesundheitskommunikation.

  In:

  7. Fachtagung des Internationalen Netzwerks Gesundheitskommunikation, Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-21. Oktober 2023.

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2023.

  Effects of non-native text input on performance and perceived comprehensibility in translation, interpreting and other language processing tasks.

  In:

  ICTIC4 Abstract Book.

  Fourth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition (ICTIC 4), Santiago de Chile, Chile, 5-9 September 2023.

  Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmbhZB_OtKFM2GLkSUUcNpygPJnpW0Gr/view

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2023.

  The use of augmented reality in interpreting : methodological challenges.

  In:

  ICTIC4 Abstract Book.

  Fourth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition (ICTIC 4), Santiago de Chile, Chile, 5-9 September 2023.

  Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmbhZB_OtKFM2GLkSUUcNpygPJnpW0Gr/view

• Lehr, Caroline; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2023.

  Machine translation in healthcare settings : potential, limitations and ethical implications.

  In:

  NPIT6 Book of Abstracs.

  6th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25-27 May 2023.

  Available from: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/npit6/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2024/03/Book-of-Abstracts-NEW-WEBSITE.pdf

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2023.

  Processing spoken and written ELF material in natural translation and interpreting : what handling tactics do non-T&I multilinguals apply?.

  In:

  NPIT6 Book of Abstracts.

  6th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25-27 May 2023.

  Available from: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/npit6/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2024/03/Book-of-Abstracts-NEW-WEBSITE.pdf

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2023.

  Strategies we live by : coping with English as a lingua franca source input.

  In:

  ICTIC 4 Abstract book.

  Fourth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition (ICTIC 4), Santiago de Chile, Chile, 5-9 September 2023.

  Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmbhZB_OtKFM2GLkSUUcNpygPJnpW0Gr/view

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2022.

  ELF density : extending ELF research to monological texts and speeches.

  In:

  13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (online), 18-20 November 2022.

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2022.

  Cognitive load and mental effort : is there a difference and does this difference matter for task performance in T&I?.

  In:

  1st BTS Symposium on Cognitive Research in Translation and Interpreting. A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 June 2022.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2022.

  Non-native source texts : a stress factor for students of translation and interpreting?.

  In:

  10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Schuler, Martin,

  2022.

  The augmented interpreter : a pilot study on the use of augmented reality in interpreting.

  In:

  3rd HKBU International Conference on Interpreting : Interpreting and Technology, Hong-Kong (online), 7-9 December 2022.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  Processing ELF : how do language professionals reflect on it?.

  In:

  3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.

  Università di Bologna.

  pp. 72.

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Andermatt, Katrin,

  2021.

  Meaning-making in interpreting ELF input – the amplified role of context.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 17.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality.

  In:

  Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting.

  2nd HKBU International Conference on Interpreting : Cognitive Approaches, online, 8-9 April 2021.

  pp. 41-42.

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2021.

  Interpreting quality and effort in expert and novice interpreters.

  In:

  YLMP 2021 : Book of Abstracts.

  7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań : Rethinking language and identity in the multilingual world, Poznań, Poland, 23-25 April 2021.

  Poznań:

  Adam Mickiewicz University.

  pp. 47-48.

  Available from: http://ylmp2021.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BoA_YLMP2021.pdf

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Gieshoff, A. (2018): The impact of audio-visual speech on work-load in simultaneous interpreting (Doctoral dissertation), Universität, Mainz, Germany
• Gieshoff, A. (2017): ”Audiovisual speech decreases the number of cognate translations in simultaneous interpreting”. In: S. Hansen-Schirra, O. Czulo, B. Meyer & S. Hoffmann (ed.). Empirical modelling of translation and interpreting , 313-330. Berlin: Language Science Press
• Gieshoff, A. (2013): ”Assembler, Executive, Formulator. Die Relevanz von Settons Modell für das Konsekutivdolmetschen”. In: D. Andres, M. Behr, M. Dingfelder-Stone (ed.). Dolmetschmodelle – erfasst, erläutert, erweitert , 105-128. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang

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