Cognition and Perception, Eye Tracking, and Human Robot Interaction

Publications in this category consist of lab research outcomes related to cognitive science topics, including reading research, human robot interaction, cognition, and methodologically eye tracking and brain imaging.

Journal Articles

Tekbudak, Z.S., Purmohammad, M., Özkan, A., Acartürk, C. (2024). The PSR corpus: A Persian sentence reading corpus of eye movements. Behavior Research Methods, 57(14),. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02517-x. Link.

Acarturk, C., Ozkan, A., Pekcetin, T. N., Ormanoglu, Z., & Kirkici, B. (2024). TURead: An eye movement dataset of Turkish reading. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 1793-1816, doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02120-6. Link.

Pekcetin, T. N., Evsen, S., Pekcetin, S., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. A. (2023). A naturalistic setup for presenting real people and live actions in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience studies. JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments, 198, e65436, doi: 10.3791/65436-v. Link.

Kuperman, V., Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Acarturk, C., Alexeeva, S., Amenta, S., . . . Usal, K. (2023). Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 3-37, doi:10.1017/S0272263121000954. Link.

Alasehir, O., & Acarturk, C. (2022). Interdisciplinarity in cognitive science: A document similarity analysis. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13222, doi: 10.1111/cogs.13222. Link.

Kaakinen, J. K., Werlen, E., Kammerer, Y., Acarturk, C., Aparicio, X., Baccino, T., … & Ruiz Fernández, S. (2022). IDEST: International database of emotional short texts. Plos One, 17(10), e0274480, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274480. Link.

Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Acarturk, C. et al. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO). Behavior Research Methods, 54, 2843–2863, doi: 10.3758/s13428-021-01772-6. Link.

Acarturk, C., & Mucen, B. (2022). Performance in the workplace: A critical evaluation of cognitive enhancement. NanoEthics, 16(1), 107-114, doi: 10.1007/s11569-021-00407-6. Link.

Acarturk, C., Coskun, M., Emil, S. (2022). Multimodal communication in instructional settings: An investigation of the functional roles of gestures and arrows. Revista Signos, 54(107), 867-892, doi: 10.4067/S0718-09342021000300867. Link.

Acarturk, C., Indurkya, B., Nawrocki, P., Sniezynski,B.,Jarosz, M. & Usal, K. A. (2021). Gaze aversion in conversational settings: An investigation based on mock job interview. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 14(1):1, doi: 10.16910/jemr.14.1.1. Link.

Ozkan, A., Fikri Beken, F., Kirkici, B., Kliegl, R., Acarturk, C. (2021). Eye movement control in Turkish sentence reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2), 277-297, doi: 10.1177/1747021820963310. Link.

Arslan Aydin, U., Kalkan, S., Acarturk, C. (2021). Speech driven gaze in a face-to-face interaction. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Active Vision and Perception in Human-Robot Collaboration, doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2021.598895. Link.

Isbilir, E., Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C., Tekerek, A. S. (2019). Towards a multimodal model of cognitive workload through synchronous optical brain imaging and eye tracking measures. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13, 375, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00375. Link.

Arslan Aydin, U., Kalkan, S., Acarturk, C. (2018). MAGIC: A multimodal framework for analysing gaze in dyadic communication.  Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11(6), doi: 10.16910/jemr.11.6.2. Link.

Uludagli, M. C. & Acarturk, C. (2018). User interaction in hands-free gaming: A comparative study of gaze-voice and touchscreen interface control. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 26(4), 1967-1976, doi: 10.3906/elk-1710-128. Link.

Semin, G.R., Palma, T., Acarturk, C. & Dziuba, A. (2018). Gender is not simply a matter of black and white, or is it? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 73(1752). pii: 20170126, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0126. Link.

Alacam, O., Habel, C. & Acarturk, C. (2015). Switching reference-frame preferences during verbally assisted haptic-graph comprehension. Cognitive Processing, 16(1), 115-119, doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0730-9. Link.

Acarturk, C. (2014). Towards a systematic understanding of graphical cues in communication through statistical graphs. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 25(2), 76-88, doi: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2013.11.006. Link.

Acarturk, C., Taboada, M. & Habel, C. (2013). Cohesion in multimodal documents: Effects of cross-referencing. Information Design Journal, 20(2), 98-110, doi: 10.1075/idj.20.2.01aca. Link.

Habel, C., & Acarturk, C. (2011). Causal inference in graph-text constellations: Designing verbally annotated graphs. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 16(1), 7-12, doi: 10.1016/S1007-0214(11)70002-5. Link.

Acarturk, C., Habel, C., Çağıltay, K., & Alaçam, Ö. (2008). Multimodal comprehension of language and graphics: Graphs with and without annotations. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1(3):2, 1-15, doi: 10.16910/jemr.1.3.2. Link.

Conference Proceedings

Acarturk, C., & Ertekin, S. N. (2024). Spatial term variety reflected in eye movements on visual scenes. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46^th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society (pp. 4381-4386). Link.

Pekçetin, T. N., Evsen, S., Pekçetin, S., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. A. (2024). Real-world implicit association task for studying mind perception: Insights for social robotics. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 837-841), doi: 10.1145/3610978.3640706. Link.

Pekçetin, T. N., Evsen, Ş., Pekçetin, S., Karaduman, T. D., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. A. (2024). A naturalistic laboratory setup for real-world HRI studies. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1296-1298), doi: 10.1145/3610978.3641113. Link.

Pekçetin, T. N., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. A. (2024). Investigating mind perception in HRI through real-time implicit and explicit measurements. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 139-141), doi: 10.1145/3610978.3638366. Link.

Ōzkan, A., & Acarturk, C. (2024). Refixation strategies in sentential word reading: An exploration by linked linear mixed models. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46^th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society (pp. 5310-5317). Link.

Pekçetin, T., Evsen, Ş., Pekçetin, S., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. (2024). Mind perception at play: Exploring agent and action dynamics in real-time human-robot interaction. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46^th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society (pp. 1685-1692). Link.

Pekcetin, T. N., Barinal, B., Tunc, J., Acarturk, C., & Urgen, B. A. (2023). Studying mind perception in social robotics implicitly: The need for validation and norming. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 202-210), doi: 10.1145/3568162.3577001. Link.

Allahgholipour, B., Yaz, F., Ozkan, A., & Acarturk, C. (2023). Multisensory integration of audiovisual information in avatar faces: An experimental investigation of McGurk Effect. In In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3137-3143). Link.

Sahin, E., Ozmenoğlu, D., Paker, A., Kaygusuz, Y., Aydemir, H., Acarturk, C., Cakir, M.  (2023). Multimodal learnability assessment of a touch-based large area display with eye tracking and optical brain imaging. In Dehais, F. et al. (eds) Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 102. AHFE International, USA, doi: 10.54941/ahfe1003007. Link.

Cagiltay, B., & Acarturk, C. (2022). An eye tracking analysis of conversational violations in dyadic and collaborative interaction. In Schmorrow, D.D., Fidopiastis, C.M. (eds) Augmented Cognition. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13310. Springer, Chami doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05457-0_3. Link.

Balkoca, A. Algan, A., Acarturk, C., Coltekin, C. (2021). Team ReadMe at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Predicting human reading patterns by traditional oculomotor control models and machine learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pp. 134–140, ACL, doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.cmcl-1.17. Link.

Yilmaz, E., Fal, M., Acarturk, C. (2020). The role of gaze as a deictic cue in human robot interaction. In Schmorrow D., Fidopiastis C. (eds) Augmented Cognition. Human Cognition and Behavior. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12197. Springer, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50439-7_32. Link.

Albayrak Colaço, C., Acarturk, C. (2018). Visual behaviour during perception of architectural drawings: Differences between architects and non architects. In Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (pp. 417-436), Italy, doi: /10.1007/978-3-030-05363-5_21. Link.

Arslan Aydin, Ü., Kalkan, S., Acarturk, C. (2017). A gaze-centered multimodal approach to human-human social interaction. In Proceedings of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics CYBCONF (pp. 1-6). Exeter, UK, doi: 10.1109/CYBConf.2017.7985753. Link.

Acarturk C., Kilic, O., Kirkici, B., Can, B., Özkan, A. (2017). The role of letter frequency on eye movements in sentential pseudoword reading. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1495-1500). London, UK. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Acarturk, C., Freitas, J., Fal, M., Dias, M. S. (2015). Elderly speech-gaze interaction: State of the art and challenges for interaction design. In M. Antona & C. Stephanidis (Eds.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Today’s Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9175. (pp. 3-12). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Link.

Vieira, D., Freitas J. D., Acarturk, C., Teixeira, A., Sousa, L., Silva, S., Candeias, S., Dias, M. S. (2015). “Read That Article”: Exploring synergies between gaze and speech interaction. In Proceedings of the ASSESTS’15 17^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 341-342). ACM. Link.

Zeyrek, D., Acarturk, C. (2014). The distinction between unaccusative and unergative verbs in Turkish: An offline and an eye tracking study of split intransitivity. In Proceedings of the 36^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1832-1837). Austin, TX. Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C. (2013). Micro-analysis of referring expressions in a dual eye tracking paradigm: Two case studies on voice and chat mediated interaction. In Proceedings of the CogSci 2013 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference. Berlin, Germany. Link.

Acarturk, C., Habel, C. (2012). Eye tracking in multimodal comprehension of graphs. In R. Cox & J. P. S. Diego (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Diagrams Research. Vol. 887, pp. 11-25, CEUR. Kent, UK. Link.

Habel, C., Acarturk, C. (2009). Eye-tracking evidence for multimodal language-graphics comprehension: The role of integrated conceptual representations. In C. Navarretta, P. Paggio, J. Allwood, E. Alsén & Y. Katagiri (eds.), Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 Workshop. Multimodal Communication – from Human Behaviour to Computational Models (Vol. 6, pp. 9-14). NEALT. Odense, Denmark. Link.

Applications of NLP/ML Models, Cybersecurity, and Cognitive Technologies

Publications in this category consist of research including studies on cybersecurity, applications of NLP (Natural Language Processing), DL (Deep Learning), ML (Machine Learning) and modeling approaches, and cognitive technologies.

Journal Articles

Acartürk, C., Fal, M., & Çakır, M. P. (2024). User performance and engagement in multi-user gaming Environments: An experimental investigation through the group eye tracking (GET) paradigm. Entertainment Computing, 51, 100714., doi: 10.1016/j.entcom.2024.100714. Link.

Balikcioglu, P. G., Sirlanci, M., A Kucuk, O., Ulukapi, B., Turkmen, R. K., & Acarturk, C. (2022). Malicious code detection in Android: The role of sequence characteristics and disassembling methods. International Journal of Information Security, 22, 107-118, doi: 10.1007/s10207-022-00626-2. Link.

Demirci, D., Sahin, N., Sirlanci, M., & Acarturk, C. (2022). Static malware detection using stacked BiLSTM and GPT-2. IEEE Access, 10, 58488 – 58502, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3179384. Link.

Darazam, M. K., Angin, P., Acarturk, C. (2022). Using manufacturer usage descriptions for IoT network security: An experimental investigation of smart home network devices. ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, 3(2), 388-407, doi: 10.52953/NSQZ3214. Link.

Mulazimoglu, E., Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C. (2021). The role of visual features in text-based captchas: An fNIRS study for usable security. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2021, Article ID 8842420, doi: 10.1155/2021/8842420. Link.

Acarturk, C., Ulubay, M., Erdur, E. (2021). Continuous improvement on maturity and capability of security operation centers. IET Information Security,15(1), 59-75, doi: doi.org/10.1049/ise2.12005. Link.

Bellal, Z., Elouali, N., Benslimane, S.M., Acarturk, C. (2021). Integrating mobile multimodal interactions based on programming by demonstration. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35(5), 418-433, doi: 10.1080/10447318.2020.1823688. Link.

Acarturk, C., Sirlanci, M., Gurkan Balikcioglu, P., Demirci, D., Sahin, N., Acar Kucuk, O. (2021). Malicious code detection: Run trace output analysis by LSTM. IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3049200. Link.

Tufan, E., Tezcan, C., Acarturk, C. (2021). Anomaly-based intrusion detection by machine learning: A case study on probing attacks to an institutional network. IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3068961. Link.

Guner, H., Acarturk, C. (2020). The use and acceptance of ICT by senior citizens: A comparison of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for elderly and young adults. Universal Access in the Information Society, 19, 311-330, doi: 10.1007/s10209-018-0642-4. Link.

Acarturk, C., Ozcelik, E. (2016). Secondary task effects on learning with multimedia: An investigation through eye movement analysis. The Journal of Experimental Education: Learning, Instruction and Cognition 85(1), 126-141, doi: 10.1080/00220973.2016.1143793. Link.

Ozcelik, E., Acarturk, C. (2011). Reducing the spatial distance between printed and online information sources by means of mobile technology enhances learning: Using 2D barcodes. Computers & Education, 57(3), 2077-2085, doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.05.019. Link.

Conference Proceedings

Ozkan, A., Kilic, B.G., Acarturk, C. (2024). Keystroke transcription from acoustic emanations using continuous wavelet transform. In Kim, D.D., Chen, C. (eds) Machine Learning for Cyber Security. ML4CS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14541. Springer, Singapore, doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2458-1_1. Link.

Fal, M., Acarturk, C. (2021) Goal orientation in Human Computer Interaction tasks: An experimental investigation of user engagement and interaction modalities. In Schmorrow D.D., Fidopiastis C.M. (eds) Augmented Cognition. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12776. Springer, Cham, 10.1007/978-3-030-78114-9_11. Link.

Turhanlar, M., & Acartürk, C. (2021). Detecting Turkish phishing attack with machine learning algorithms. In Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies ( (pp. 577-584) doi: : 10.5220/0010717900003058. Link.

Ural, O., Acarturk, C. (2021). Automatic detection of cyber security events from Turkish Twitter stream and newspaper data. In Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Vol 1.  (pp. 66-76), doi: 10.5220/0010201600660076. Link.

Buyuktekin, F., Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C. (2020). Analysis of Turkish referring expressions in a situated dialog context: The case of nominal demonstratives. D. Zeyrek & U. Ozge (eds) Discourse meaning: The view from Turkish, (pp. 103-135). Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, doi: 10.1515/9783110686654-005. Link.

Ertugrul, A. M., Onal, I., Acarturk, C. (2017). Does the strength of sentiment matter? A regression based approach on Turkish social media. In Frasincar F., Ittoo A., Nguyen L., Métais E. (eds) Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10260 (pp. 149-155). Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59569-6_16. Link.

Coskun, M., Acarturk, C. (2015). Gesture production under instructional context: The role of mode of instruction. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (eds) Proceedings of the 37^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 459-464). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Alacam, O., Acarturk, C., Habel, C. (2015). Haptic exploration patterns in virtual line-graph comprehension. In A. Marcus (ed) Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU/HCII 2015), Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9187 (pp. 403-414). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20898-5_39. Link.

Acarturk, C., Alaçam, O., Habel, C. (2014). Developing a verbal assistance system for line graph comprehension. In A. Marcus (ed) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8518 (pp. 373-382). Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07626-3_34. Link.

Alacam, O., Acarturk, C.  Habel, C. (2014). Referring expressions in discourse about haptic line graphs. In Verena Rieser & Phillipe Muller (eds) Proceedings of the 18^th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, SemDial 2014 – DialWatt (pp. 7-16). Edinburgh, UK. Link.

Alacam, O., Habel, C. Acarturk, C. (2014). Verbally assisted haptic graph comprehension: The role of taking initiative in a joint activity. In Proceedings of the 2^nd European and the 5^th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication (pp. 17-24). Estonia. Link.

Freitas, J., Candeias, S., Sales Dias, M., Lleida Solano, E., Ortega Gimenez, A., Teixeira, A., Silva, S. Acarturk, C., Orvalho, V. (2014). The IRIS Project: A liaison between industry and academia towards natural multimodal communication. In Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2014 – VIII Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and IV Iberian SLTech Workshop (pp. 338 – 347). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Link.

Pehlivan, U., Baltacı, N., Acarturk. C., Baykal, N. (2014). The analysis of feature selection methods and classification algorithms in permission based Android malware detection. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) (pp. 1-8). Orlando, Florida USA, doi: 10.1109/CICYBS.2014.7013371. Link.

Alacam, O., Habel, C., Acarturk, C. (2013). Investigation of haptic line-graph comprehension through co-production of gesture and language. In Proceedings of TiGeR 2013 Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting. The combined meeting of the 10^th International Gesture Workshop (GW) and the 3^rd Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN) conference. Tilburg, Netherlands. Link.

Alacam, O., Habel, C., Acarturk, C. (2013). Towards designing audio assistance for comprehending haptic graphs: A multimodal perspective. In C. Stephanidis & M. Antona (Eds.) 15^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Design Methods, Tools, and Interaction Techniques for eInclusion, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8009 (pp. 409-418). USA. Heidelberg. Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39188-0_44. Link.

Alacam, O., Habel, C., Acarturk, C. (2013). Gesture and language production in communication through bar graphs. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany (pp. 1714–1719). Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Arslan-Aydin, U., Acarturk, C., Cagiltay, K. (2013). The role of visual coherence in graphical passwords. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (eds), Proceedings of the 35^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germanypp. (1774–1779), Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Habel, C., Alacam, O., Acarturk, C. (2013). Verbally assisted comprehension of haptic line-graphs: Referring expressions in a collaborative activity. In Proceedings of the CogSci 2013 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference. Berlin, Germany. Link.

Acarturk, C. (2012). Points, lines and arrows in statistical graphs. In P. Cox, P. Rodgers & B. Plimmer (Eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7352 (pp. 95-101). Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_13. Link.

Acarturk, C., Alacam, O. (2012). Gestures in communication through line graphs. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan. (pp. 66-71). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Link.

Acarturk, C., Cakir, M. P. (2012). Towards building a corpus of Turkish referring expressions. In S. Demir, I. D. El-Kahlout & M. U. Dogan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Turkic Languages. LREC 2012 Language and Resources Evaluation Conference (pp. 1-5). Istanbul, Turkey. Link.

Acarturk, C., Zeyrek, D. (2010). Unaccusative/unergative distinction in Turkish: A connectionist approach. In S. Hussain, V. Sornlertlamvanich & H. Riza (Eds.) Proceedings of the 23^rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010). The 8^th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (pp. 111-119). Beijing, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China. Link.

Acarturk, C., Habel, C., Cagiltay, K. (2008). Multimodal comprehension of graphics with textual annotations: The role of graphical means relating annotations and graph lines. In J. Howse, J. Lee & G. Stapleton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference, Diagrams 2008 Herrsching, Germany. Diagrammatic representation and inference: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5223 (pp. 335-343). Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg. Link.

Acarturk, C., Habel, C., Cagiltay, K., Alacam, O. (2008). Learning from text and graphs: The role of annotations and sensory modality. In A. Maes & S. Ainsworth (Eds.) Proceedings of EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics. Exploiting the Opportunities Learning with Textual, Graphical and Multimodal Representations. Tilburg, Netherlands (pp. 13-16).

Habel, C., Acarturk, C. (2007). On reciprocal improvement in multimodal generation: Co-reference by text and information graphics. In I. van der Sluis, M. Theune, E. Reiter & E. Krahmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Output Generation: MOG 2007 (pp. 69-80). University of Aberdeen, U.K. Link.

Community Service to University

This category consists of the deliverables of a volunteered project (URAP Research Lab on University Rankings and Academic Performance) at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C., Alkan, S., Akbulut, U. (2019). Multi-authoring and its impact on university rankings: A case study of CERN effect on Turkish universities. Studies in Higher Education, 44, 1052-1068, doi: 10.1080/03075079.2017.1414780. Link.

Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C., Alasehir, O., Cilingir, C. (2015). A comparative analysis of global and national university ranking systems. Scientometrics, 103, 813-848, doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1586-6. Link.

Alasehir, O., Cakir, M. P., Acarturk, C., Baykal, N., Akbulut, U. (2014). URAP-TR: A national ranking for Turkish universities based on academic performance. Scientometrics, 101, 159-178, doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1333-4. Link.