Researcher: Karaturhan, Pelin
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Publication Metadata only Isles of emotion: emotionally expressive social virtual spaces for reflection and communication(Association for Computing Machinery, 2021) Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; N/A; N/A; Yantaç, Asım Evren; Karaturhan, Pelin; Şemsioğlu, Sinem; Akbaş, Saliha; Faculty Member; PhD Student; PhD Student; PhD Student; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52621; N/A; N/A; N/AIt is common not be fully aware of our experience of emotions, and sometimes it is hard to communicate our emotions to others. Using design strategies derived from ambiguity and performativity, we came up with the concept of Isles of Emotion, customizable abstract virtual spaces that represent emotions. Considering remote communication as one of the potential use cases, we assessed this concept as an emotional reflection and communication tool via user studies conducted with 6 pairs of closely related people who have lived apart in the near past. During the studies participants created their own emotion islands using VR tools and visited their own and their pair's islands. We contribute to the existing literature by sharing resulting design insights on emotionally expressive social virtual spaces, commenting on the level of abstraction from and connections to the real-world, sharing and collaboration concerning the islands and their customizability.Publication Metadata only Layer zero: An approach for deepening self-reflection on instagram shares(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) N/A; N/A; Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; Karaturhan, Pelin; Yantaç, Asım Evren; Kuşçu, Kemal; PhD Student; Faculty Member; Other; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; School of Medicine; N/A; 52621; N/ASelf-reflection is an essential part of personal well-being and development. One of the strategies to support reflective thinking is to revisit personal recordings. Existing and emerging social media platforms are powerful mediums for self-reflection. However, additional mechanisms may be necessary to support deepening reflective thinking through social media use. We explore the concept; Layer Zero, a tool that helps users record reflective logs when they share on Instagram through a question set, and present them later for reflection. This paper focuses on the data collection phase of Layer Zero. We conducted 2 user studies through Instagram with a total of 29 participants to understand the potential of Instagram shares for reflection and measure the effectiveness of questions on self-reflection. We found that our approach can help users engage in deeper reflective thinking about their motivations, actions and thought processes. The results indicate various design insights for future social media reflection tools.Publication Open Access EMOTE: an interactive online tool for designing real-time emotional AR visualizations(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022) Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; Yantaç, Asım Evren; Şemsioğlu, Sinem; Karaturhan, Pelin; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52621; N/A; N/AIn a future when augmented vision becomes a part of our daily lives, some might want or need to highlight their emotions by visuals on or around their bodies like wearing a prosthesis or an expressive make-up. This might especially be useful for situations where one cannot express their own emotions or read others'. To help the design process of affective augmentations, we developed EMOTE; an online interactive tool that presents a framework to guide designers while designing emotion visualizations for AR. We conducted an online workshop with 24 participants to evaluate the framework and the online tool. In this paper, we share insights on user experience with this tool, the effect of framework on the design process and how the framework can be expanded.Publication Open Access Combining momentary and retrospective self-reflection in a mobile photo-based journaling application(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022) Department of Media and Visual Arts; N/A; Yantaç, Asım Evren; Kuşçu, Kemal; Karaturhan, Pelin; Arıkan, Ecem; Durak, Pelin; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; KU Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries (KUAR) / KU Arçelik Yaratıcı Endüstriler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (KUAR); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; School of Medicine; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52621; N/A; N/A; N/A; N/AThe concept of self-reflection is investigated in a wide range of fields, from Psychology to HCI. Different fields use different methods to trigger reflection, such as visualizing accumulated personal quantitative data, personal photos, journaling, or asking reflective questions about experiences. This study combines photo-based journaling, reflective questions and data visualization for triggering momentary and retrospective self-reflection. We prototyped a photo-based journaling app and conducted a 5-week field study (N=13) to observe in-the-wild experiences. Following, we conducted an evaluation workshop (N=9) to explore strategies for motivating reflective question answering and retrospective self-reflection. Our approach encourages momentary and retrospective self-reflection, but the question-answering process could be burdensome and retrospective self-reflection should be incentivized. For that, we compiled design strategies for both kinds of self-reflection. We contribute to the HCI literature with strategies for unifying momentary and retrospective self-reflection in photo-based journaling.