Dr. Aslı Günay is an assistant professor in the Human-Centred Design group at University of Twente.
Graduating as the top-ranking student from the Industrial Design Department at Middle East Technical University (METU), she spent part of her undergraduate education as an exchange student at Politecnico di Milano. She earned her Master’s degree from the Joint Master’s Program in Design for Interaction between Delft University of Technology and METU. She completed her Ph.D. in the Industrial Design Department at METU, receiving the thesis of the year award for her work, which focused on the intersection of pregnant women’s wellbeing during three trimesters of pregnancy and personal health technologies. She conducted her postdoctoral research on systems approach to healthcare at the University of Cambridge, Engineering Design Centre. She also worked with BEKO PLC in Cambridge, UK.
She has taught multiple design courses at METU and Koç University where she also worked as an Assistant Professor. Additionally, she worked as a specialist user experience researcher at METU/BILTIR UTEST Product Usability Unit for approximately ten years. She has worked in various industry-collaboration projects in various sectors, such as home electronics, white goods, and healthcare technologies.
For more than a decade, the investigation of how emerging technologies can come into being with meaningful experiences and use scenarios, especially in the healthcare context, has constituted one of her central research interests. She has been particularly working on the development of staged-based design methods, tools, and technologies to help explore idiosyncratic dynamics and needs in multiple stages observed in diverse health conditions, such as in the stages of pregnancy, menopause, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and so on. Particularly, ‘women’s health’ has been an invaluable focus for her to investigate transitions inherent in multiple biological milestones (e.g. diverse trimesters of pregnancy, fluctuations during different stages of menopause, cyclic rhythms of menstruation).
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Computer Science
- Design
- User Experience
- Service
Social Sciences
- Consumers
- Experience
- Design Education
- Perception
- Pregnancy
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