Mehmet Aydın Baytaş

Mehmet Aydın Baytaş is a PhD fellow in Design, Technology and Society affiliated with Koç University's Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 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 and the Koç University - Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries in key roles. Prior to his academic work, he contributed to design, software, and business projects for a variety of startups, SMEs, and non-profits

Research Keywords: Human-computer interaction (HCI); interaction design (IxD); user experience (UX); interactive information design; computational heirlooms; 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.

mbaytas@ku.edu.tr

Göteborg, SE

Me: Could you sign this book for me?
Kendon: What should I write?
Me: Well, you wrote the book already. Can you draw instead?
Kendon: Ofc. I’m known for my rad cat doodles.
Me: #please.
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{#tbt #adamkendon #linguistics #conferencing #researchering #bookstagram #roma}

$Today I’m kicking off a #series of posts on “human-computer interaction” and “interaction design” where I will be featuring fellow #researchers and their work. #HCI and #IXD are about studying and purposefully designing our relationships with computers. In an era where we spend more time than anything else looking and poking at computer screens, I feel #blessed to be working in this field. Yet, few people know about these branches of #design and #computer #science, and how much they impact our lives. This series will feature mostly contemporary work (and color), but I want to start from the #start: I introduce to you the legendary Doug Engelbart (1925-2013), credited with #inventing the #mouse and #windows, #engineering most of the #internet, and #envisioning the #graphical #user #interface. Here he is delivering the “Mother of All Demos” in 1968, where the majority of ideas that became the #computers we take for granted today were shown to the public for the first time in #history. . Mother of All Demos: https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY More on Engelbart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart . { #humancomputerinteraction #interactiondesign #computerscience #douglasengelbart #dougengelbart @theofficialacm @acmsiggraph @acm_chi @ieeeorg }$

I’ve easily been on a few hundred flights, with all sorts of delays, cancellations, lost bags, etc. Last week, for the first time in my life, I got on a plane that took off AND landed #EARLY. Well done, @flysas. Much #impressed.
#machinelove #propellerporn #oslo

I found #norway to be quite formal, with a lot of attention paid to orderly aesthetics and process in both architecture and daily life. But this is balanced out nicely with enthusiasm for adventures in nature and art. Well played.
#trondheim #shred

When you work in #tech where it’s casual every day, so you invent #fancyfriday and try match your shirt to your #blonde #telecaster.
#friday #flannel #oldschool #grey #göteborg

$Weeks before @google dropped the #hardware #security key, our #designresearch paper on unifying #blockchain-like #software with physical keys got a #bestpaperaward at #acmDIS2018. Looks like someone’s been #reading. See: https://cnet.com/news/google-made-the-titan-key-to-toughen-up-your-online-security More on our project feat. @coskunaykut & @evren_yantac, with illustrations by @ozgunkilic: https://mehmetaydinbaytas.com/research/computational-heirlooms { #hci #humancomputerinteraction #ixd #interactiondesign #hongkong #istanbul @kocuniversity @chalmers.university }$