Her primary research interest is Human-Computer Interaction, particularly user behaviour analysis, modelling, eye-tracking and Artificial Intelligence applications.

Research Funding

I have been working on the following projects — some completed and some are still running, and also some of them as principal investigators or co-investigators:

A Multi-Method Interdisciplinary Study on Pre-Service Teachers’ Classroom Management Noticing Using Video-Annotation with Expert-Model Feedback and Physiological Data via Smartwatch and Eye Tracking, 15/10/2025-Active, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus Inter-Campus BAP Funding; Co-Investigator.
OPTIMAL-EM: An AI-Driven Framework for Systematic Web Accessibility Evaluation, 1/10/2025-Active, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; Principle Investigator.
STA_DS: Scanpath Trend Analysis on Dynamic Visual Stimuli, 1/12/2024-Active, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; Co-Investigator.
Post-Doc Project, BAP, 1/02/2023-1/02/2025, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; Co-Investigator.
DDS, 15/02/2017-15/02/2019, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; Principle Investigator.
eMine, 01/07/2010-01/11/2013, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK); Principle Investigator.
MOHSE, 01/05/2010-31/07/2012, 6,834 TL; Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; Principle Investigator.
ICT.cyp, 1/06/2010-31/08/2011, 22,720 TL, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus BAP Funding; (Project Team).
RIAM Project, 01/10/2006-30/09/2009; EPSRC (EP/E002218/1); First Grant Scheme; Named Research Associate.
COHSE/II Project, 01/09/2004-01/04/2007; SUN Microsystems; Named Research Associate.
Travel Grant, May 2009; Inclusive Digital Economy Network; Received a grant for travelling to San Sebastian, Spain to attend the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering.
Travel Grant, April 2008; Royal Academy of Engineering; Received a grant for travelling to Beijing, China to attend the International World Wide Web conference.
PhD project 09/2001-09/2004; the UK Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORSAS) and also partly funded by the University of Manchester.

Students

I had or have the great opportunity to work with the following students either as the main supervisor or co-supervisors:

Tianyi Chen, PhD, University of Manchester, completed 2010.
Elgin Akpinar, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU, completed 2014;
Ugur Donmez, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU, completed 2014;
Sukru Eraslan, PhD, University of Manchester, completed 2016;
Eda Koksal, MSc, SEES, METU NCC, completed 2016;
Huseyin Unlu, MSc, SEES METU NCC, completed 2019.
Melih Oder, MSc, Information Systems, METU, completed 2019.
Erfan Kalaji, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2021.
Waqar Haidar, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2021.
Aslihan Tok, MSc, SEES, METU NCC, completed 2021.
Naziha Khalil, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2022.
Elgin Akpinar, PhD, Computer Engineering, METU, completed 2022.
Abdullah Sulayfani, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2023.
Sameh Algharabli, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2024.
Atakan Gundeger, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2024.
Ahmad El Cheick Ammar, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2024.
Suleiman Suleiman, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2024.
Alexander Hamley, PhD, Computer Science, University of Manchester, completed 2024.
Javid Babayev, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2025.
Ali Shafique, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, completed 2026.
Baris Gokmen, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Umut Baybece, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Zeycan Demirdag, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Farnaz Rezaei, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Ali Yurtoglu, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Nisa Sagdic, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Nazlican Tavis, MSc, Computer Engineering, METU NCC, on-going.
Naziha Khalil, PhD, Computer Science, University of Manchester, on-going.
Ahmad El Cheick Ammar, PhD, Computer Science, University of Manchester, on-going.

Translations

I have also translated the following Web pages to Turkish: