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.

$On with the #series on human-computer interaction (#HCI) and interaction design (#IxD) introducing fellow researchers and their work: This gentleman, looking rather humble after a long day at @acm_chi last April, is the legendary Chris Harrison from @carnegiemellon. He and his team (@gierad, @yashasir...) are behind some of the most exciting research on interactive technologies in recent years; blending expertise in machine learning, signal processing, electronics, product design, and plain old math, physics & biology to erase boundaries between the digital and physical worlds. Their work so far has created technologies and designs turning walls, desks, human bodies, ordinary objects, and even empty space into media that meld human senses and sensibilities with computer intelligence. Learn more at: www.chrisharrison.net/research ~ #HCI and #IxD are about studying and purposefully designing our relationships with computers. In an era where we spend more time than anything looking and poking at computer screens, I feel blessed to be working in this field. Through this series of posts I promote these branches of #design and #computer #science, and how much they impact our lives. ~ { #humancomputerinteraction #interactiondesign #computerscience #research #researchering #conferencing #portraitmode @cmuhcii @theofficialacm @ieeeorg }$

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}

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