Mehmet Aydın Baytaş is a PhD fellow in Design, Technology and Society at Koç University's Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, also affiliated with Qualisys AB and Chalmers University of Technology's t2i Interaction Laboratory.
A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he previously took part in founding the Koç University Design Lab as a member of its first research team, and founding the Koç University - Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries as its coordinator. Prior to his academic work, he worked with a variety of startups, SMEs, and non-profits on software and process design projects.
Research Keywords: Human-computer interaction (HCI); interaction design (IxD); user experience (UX); interactive information design; movement, gestures, proxemics, and non-verbal communication; sign languages; social drones; electronic music; audience and spectator experience in human-computer interaction; computer vision; motion capture; gesture sensing and recognition; end-user programming; virtual reality (VR); augmented reality (AR); technical and design education; sustainability; theories and philosophies of design and technology.
