Dr. Cila, N.
Nazli Cila is Assistant Professor of Human-Agent Partnerships at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Her research focuses on collaborations with autonomous agents, such as smart products, robots, and AI systems, and their socio-technical implications. She integrates empirical work (i.e., experimentation, future modelling, and prototyping) with philosophical, ethical, and practical issues regarding trust, responsibility, control, and intelligence. In particular, her mission is to create foundational theory on Human-Agent Partnerships and reveal interaction patterns for meaningful, aesthetic, empowering collaborations with agents.
Academic Background
Nazli's academic background is in Industrial Design. She completed a PhD at the Design Aesthetics section of the Department of Human-Centered Design and a postdoc at the Connected Everyday Lab. She then worked at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Digital Life Center research group as a researcher and a lecturer. Nazli regularly lectures on the above topics at (inter)national events, has presented her work at numerous interaction design conferences, and published in preeminent journals such as Design Studies, International Journal of Design, and Empirical Studies of the Arts.
Education
- 2009 ─ 2013
PhD, Metaphors we design by: Generating metaphors in product design, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft - 2005 ─ 2008
MSc, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University - 2001 ─ 2005
BSc, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University
Experience
- 2020 ─ Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design, TU Delft - 2018 ─ 2019
Research fellow, AMS Institute - 2015 ─ 2020
Researcher/Lecturer, Faculty of Media and Creative Industries, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences - 2013 ─ 2015
Postdoc researcher, Department of Human-Centered Design, TU Delft - 2012
Visiting researcher (4 months), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia - 2009 ─ 2013
PhD researcher, Department of Human-Centered Design, TU Delft - 2006 ─ 2009
Research Assistant, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University - 2007 ─ 2008
Researcher, UTEST Product Usability Unit, Middle East Technical University
Involved in the research project(s):

Nazli Cila
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- N.Cila@tudelft.nl
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