Welcome to my webpage!
I am a faculty member at the Cognitive Science Program at the Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. My current research interests cover human computer interaction, eye tracking applications, group eye tracking, reading, and cybercognition. I teach graduate courses on visual cognition, eye tracking and cybersystems.
NEWS
(May 2018)
New paper accepted in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: “Gender is Not Simply a Matter of Black and White, or is it?” by Gün R. Semin, Tomás Palma, Cengiz Acartürk, and Aleksandra Dziuba (manuscript will be available soon).
(May 2018)
New paper accepted in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences: “User interaction in hands-free gaming: A comparative study of gaze-voice and touchscreen interface control” by M. Çağkan Uludağlı & Cengiz Acartürk (manuscript will be available soon).
(March 2018)
The Fifth International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS) was in Istanbul, on May 6, 2018 at Bogazici University.
(August 2017)
Our lab offers several four-year YOK 100/200 PhD scholarships in Human Computer Interaction (only for Turkish citizens). Check METU webpage for details (deadline August 27, 2017).
(August 2017)
TÜBİTAK 2549 (The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey) funding received for our research project on “A gaze-mediated framework for multimodal Human Robot Interaction” (2017-2020). Scholarship announcements will be available soon.
(August 2017)
I will be writing short blog notes on ICT and human interfaces, possibly, occasionally. That is the Blog menu item on the left.