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