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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).

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Design
    • User Experience
    • Service
  • Social Sciences

    • Consumers
    • Experience
    • Design Education
    • Perception
    • Pregnancy

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2024

Designing a crossover multisensory picturebook with older adults at a care home (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Design Research Society, DRS 2024. Karaoğlu, S., Günay, A. & Veryeri Alaca, I.https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.780Utilising sharing economy to address impact-centred approach in design education (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Design Research Society, DRS 2024. Günay, A. & Süner-Pla-Cerdà, S.https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.917Realising a hybrid design studio in basic design (2024)In Learn X Design 2023: Futures of Design Education. Design Research Society. Gunay, A. & Coskun, A.https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2023.080

2022

Industrial design students’ perceptions towards a career in user experience field in Turkey (2022)International journal of technology and design education, 32, 1895-1923. Süner-Pla-Cerdà, S., Gunay, A., Töre-Yargın, G. & Ural, H.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-021-09666-6

2021

Qualitative Dimensions of Technology-Mediated Reflective Learning: The Case of VR Experience of Psychosis (2021)In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '21). Abbas, S., Kuscu, K., Yantac, A. E., Erdem, G., Semsioglu, S., Gurkan, O., Gunay, A., Vatansever, A. & Eskenazi, T.https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489869Mapping A Systems Approach To Existing Healthcare Design, Delivery and Improvement Methods (2021)Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 1997-2006. Günay, A., Ward, J. & Clarkson, P. J.https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.461How HCI Bridges Health and Design in Online Health Communities: A Systematic Review (2021)In DIS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 970-983). ACM Press. Gatos, D., Günay, A., Kırlangıç, G., Kuscu, K. & Yantac, A. E.https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462100Systems approach to health service design, delivery and improvement: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)BMJ open, 11(1). Komashie, A., Ward, J., Bashford, T., Dickerson, T., Kaya, G. K., Liu, Y., Kuhn, I., Günay, A., Kohler, K., Buddy, N., O'Kelly, E., Masters, J., Meads, C. & Clarkson, P. J.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037667

2019

UX Modelling in Design Education: Methods, Processes and Examples (2019)In Proceedings of DRS Learn X Design 2019: Insider Knowledge (pp. 139-152). METU. Töre-Yargın, G., Günay, A. & Süner, S.https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2019.15129

2018

Mobile Health Integration in Pregnancy (2018)In Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies: Adoption, Implementation, and Use (pp. 57-83). Springer (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Günay, A. & Erbuğ, Ç.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73135-3_5Modelling User Experience: Integrating User Experience Research Into Design Education (2018)In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2018 (pp. 26-34). IADIS. Töre-Yargın, G., Süner, S. & Günay, A.https://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/modelling-user-experience-integrating-user-experience-research-into-design-education

2014

Eliciting positive user experiences with self-service kiosks: pursuing possibilities (2014)Behaviour & information technology, 34(1), 81-93 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Gunay, A. & Erbuğ, Ç.https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2014.937459Changing Paradigms in Our Interactions with Self-Service Kiosks (2014)In Human-Computer Interfaces and Interactivity: Emergent Research and Applications (pp. 14-32). IGI Global. Gunay, A., Erbuğ, Ç., Hekkert, P. P. M. & Herrera, N. R.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6228-5.ch002

2013

User Experience with Interactive Self-Service Kiosks: The Effects of Presence of Other People (2013)In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conferences:: Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2013 and Game and Entertainment Technologies 2013 (pp. 54-62). IADIS. Günay, A., Erbuğ, Ç., Hekkert, P. P. M. & Herrera, N. R.https://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/user-experience-with-interactive-self-service-kiosks-the-effects-of-presence-of-other-people

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W235
De Horst 2
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