Koc University

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Speculative Design for the Metaverse: Anti-Experiences in Virtual Retail

Retail experiences in the Metaverse are becoming increasingly popular, driven by a business model that relies on brand engagement and user-generated virtual worlds (UGVWs). While much attention has been given to ideal design patterns for enhancing user engagement, there is a need for a critical examination of pain poi…

DIS '25Participatory Design +1

Rethinking Representation in Design: Towards Constructing Parameters for Representation Tools in More-than-Human Design

Understanding and representing user perspectives is essential for designing user-centered products, services, and systems. The emergence of More-than-Human Design (MTHD) expands the scope of “user” to include nonhumans, challenging the usefulness of existing user representation tools for MTHD and thus motivating desig…

IUI '25Interactive Data Visualization +1

CGAT-Net: Context-Aware Graph Attention Transformer Network for Scene Sketch Recognition

Sketches often lack sufficient detail or quality necessary for standalone recognition, making their identification challenging without contextual information. While context understanding is commonly studied in computer vision applications like object detection or image classification, it remains under-explored in the…

CHI '25Best PaperSmart Cities & Urban Sensing +3

Designing Urban Noticing Probes for Community Animals and Cohabitation in Türkiye

Design tools and probing, in particular, have long offered critical perspectives in HCI, broadening the understanding of who benefits from the design. Further, the designerly implementation of critical perspectives and theories using tools such as probes can support HCI designers with theoretically informed dialogical…

CHI '24Honorable MentionMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

Is it just a score? Understanding Training Load Management Practices Beyond Sports Tracking

Training Load Management (TLM) is crucial for achieving optimal athletic performance and preventing chronic sports injuries. Current sports trackers provide runners with data to manage their training load. However, little is known about the extent and the way sports trackers are used for TLM. We conducted a survey (N=…

DIS '23Smart Cities & Urban Sensing +2

Stray Animals-City Entanglements: Exploring the Potentials for Equitable Coexistence in Urban Türkiye

This pictorial invites designers to recognise the city from the animals’ perspective. We conduct a photo-visual exploration of the tangible and embodied interactions between animals and urban actors in selected urban and peri-urban environments in Türkiye. We observe and cluster the existing interactions to discuss ho…

HRI '23Teleoperated Driving +2

Resolving Conflicts During Human-Robot Co-Manipulation

This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to detect and resolve motion conflicts that occur between a human and a proactive robot during the execution of a physically collaborative task. We train a random forest classifier to distinguish between harmonious and conflicting human-robot interaction behaviors d…

CHI '23Mixed Reality Workspaces +2

Virtual Collaboration Tools for Mixed-Ability Workspaces: A Cross Disability Solidarity Case from Turkey

A growing body of literature on mixed-ability teams within HCI investigates how disabled and non-disabled people collaborate. Still, how different disabilities can interact in a mixed-ability team is underexplored, especially for long commitments and in non-western contexts. As an emerging perspective in accessibility…

DIS '21Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

How HCI Bridges Health and Design in Online Health Communities: A Systematic Review

This paper presents a systematic review of online health communities (OHCs) published between 2009 and 2020 in the ACM Digital Library. Aiming to consolidate the current issues, design knowledge, challenges, and tensions in OHCs, our analysis identified four high-level aspects related to the use and design of OHCs: (1…

CC '21Social & Collaborative VR +1

Isles of Emotion: Emotionally Expressive Social Virtual Spaces for Reflection and Communication

It is common not be fully aware of our experience of emotions, and sometimes it is hard to communicate our emotions to others. Using design strategies derived from ambiguity and performativity, we came up with the concept of Isles of Emotion, customizable abstract virtual spaces that represent emotions. Considering re…

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Research Methods & Design Practice

Participatory Design

Health, Healthcare & Wellbeing

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Environment, Sustainability & Ecological Design

Human-Nature Relationships (More-than-Human Design)

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Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC)