a design researcher who works on human-centred experience design of personal health technologies.
Currently, I am an assistant professor of Interaction Design at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Are you interested in collaborating or working with me or just having a chat about your research? Feel free to reach out to me via a.karahanoglu(at)utwente.nl.
I have an Industrial Design background. I have a PhD degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) of Turkey. I worked as a researcher at METU, Department of Industrial Design and Product Usability Testing Unit (UTEST) for several years. During my PhD, I was granted the prestigious Fulbright PhD Student Scholarship, and I studied at Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (USA).
I also worked as an assistant professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Ankara, Turkey). There, I was granted two TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) research funding.
📣 NEW CHI PAPER! I will be in CHI2025 in Yokohoma, Japan to talk about our work in which we largely investigated trust in AI-assisted decision-making in collaborative decision-making for personal health. I feel very lucky to have worked in this NWO-funded research with my brilliant collaborators Sterre van Arum, Uğur Genç and Dennis Reidsma. The paper can be downloaded via this link.
📣 We received a Pioneers in Health Care (PIHC) voucher (€65K) in 2024. This project aims to expand our research about the use of activities of daily living in stroke rehabilitation. Earlier, collaborating with clinicians and stroke patients, we have innovatively integrated hand exercises into everyday objects like toothbrushes and coffee cups for seamless at-home rehabilitation. In this project, we will take these efforts one step further and evaluate if and how this approach significantly increases training time compared to traditional methods. Our story has been published in UT Stories in January 2025.
📣 I organised a NordiCHI2024 workshop entitled “Life in Transitions: The Role of Technology in Supporting Well-being in the Heart of Change” Uppsala on 13 October 2024. The goal of the workshop was to bring the NordiCHI community together to discuss and map out the role of interactive technology in life transitions.
📣 I received NWO-Social Sciences and Humanities Open Competition (XS) (€49K) personal grant in 2023. This project aims to understand the extent and limits of human trust in human-technology partnerships during shared health decision-making. The goal of the project is to identify ways of empowering individuals and society to make informed health decisions to enhance human autonomy in such human-technology partnerships.
⭐️ Postma, D., van Delden, R., Reidsma, D. & Karahanoğlu, A. (2024). From Metrics to Experiences: Investigating How Sport Data Shapes the Social Context, Self-Determination and Motivation of Athletes. Interacting with Computers, iwae012, https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwae012 (Open Access)
🏆 Karahanoğlu, A., Coskun, A., Postma, D, Scheltinga, B., Gouveia, R., Reidsma, D., and Renalda, J. (2024). Is it just a score? : Understanding Training Load Management Practices Beyond Sports Tracking. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642051 (Honorable mention 🏆) pdf link
⭐️ Elvitigala, D., Karahanoğlu, A., Matviienko, A., Vidal, L. V., Postma, D., Jones,M., Montoya, M.F., Harrison,D. Elbaek, L., Daiber, F., Burr, L., Patibanda, R. Buono, P., Hamalainen, P., van Delden, R. Bernhaupt, R., Ren, X., van Rheden, V., Zambetta, F., van den Hoven, E., Lallemand, C., Reidsma, D., and Mueller, F. (2024). Grand Challenges in SportsHCI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642050. pdf link.
⭐️ Postma, D., Karahanoğlu, A., Delden, R., Reidsma, D. (2023). The Cost of Reward: A Critical Reflection on the ‘What’, ‘How’, and ‘Why’ of Gamification for Motivation in Sports. In Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’23), October 10–13, 2023, Stratford, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3573382.3616102 pdf link
🏆 Ekhtiar, T., Karahanoğlu, A., Gouveia, R., and Ludden, G. (2023). Goals for Goal Setting: A Scoping Review on Personal Informatics. InDesigning Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), July 10–14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596087 (Honorable mention 🏆) pdf link
⭐️ Coskun, A., & Karahanoğlu, A. (2022). Data Sensemaking in Self-Tracking: Towards a New Generation of Self-Tracking Tools, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 39:12, 2339-2360 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2075637 pdf link