H.U.G. (Uğur) Genç PhD
H.U.G. (Uğur) Genç PhD
Profile
Uğur received his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from METU, Ankara, in 2017, and his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2022.
During his doctoral research, he focused on enriching collocated social interactions in public settings.’ He published several papers, presented at CHI, DIS, and other related HCI and Design venues, and got a Ph.D. Excellence award for his dissertation from the university. He also gave courses on several topics, including Design Thinking, UX Research, and 3D Printing for undergraduate and graduate levels.
Besides his Ph.D. studies, he also worked as a designer at Siemens for two years. During these years, he was involved in design projects on data visualizations for industrial smart machines with international teams.
In TUDelft, he is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction with the Knowledge and Intelligence Design Group (KIND).
Publications
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2024
Diversifying Knowledge Production in HCI
Exploring Materiality and Novel Formats for Scholarly Expression
Miriam Sturdee / Ugur Genc / Vanissa Wanick -
2024
EmpathiCH: Scrutinizing Empathy-Centric Design Beyond the Individual
Alok Debnath / Allison Lahnala / Uğur Genç / Ewan Soubutts / Michal Lahav / Tiffanie Horne / Wo Meijer / Yun Suen Pai / Yen-Chia Hsu / Giulia Barbareschi / Himanshu Verma / Andrea Mauri
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2024
From Silence to Dialogue
Boosting Collocated Social Interactions with Technology
Uğur Genç / Aykut Coskun -
2024
Situating Empathy in HCI/CSCW
A Scoping Review
Uğur Genç / Himanshu Verma -
2023
How sustainable is your menu?
Designing and assessing an interactive artefact to support chefs' sustainable recipe-planning practices
Aykut Coskun / H.U. Genç / Ayşen Coşkun -
Prizes
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2023
Best Paper
6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2023 -
2023
Ph.D. Excellence Award
Ancillary activities
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2023-01-16 - 2025-01-15