MSc. Esnaf Uslu, P.

Pelin is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. She conducts her research within the VICI project 'Design for mood Regulation'.

Academic Background

Pelin studied Industrial Product Design in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul.

She moved to the Netherlands in 2016 to start her master education in the Design for Interaction programme, TU Delft. She worked on her research internship project about mood & sleep, in which she found the products involved in mood regulation activities. Then, for her graduation project, she developed a tool to improve the empathic abilities of design students.

In 2019, she started to work on her PhD project within the Design for Mood Regulation project. Driven by the curiosity to explore how interpersonal communications can be improved, Pelin works on both mood and empathy in a slightly different context; in service encounters. She is currently exploring the role of mood in service encounters and aims to improve the interaction between the service providers and their clients with mood-sensitivity.

Education

2019 – Present
PhD Candidate in VICI Design for Mood Regulation Project, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2016 – 2018
MSc. (Cum Laude) Design for Interaction, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2011– 2015
BSc. Industrial Product Design, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul – Turkey
2014
Exchange Program in Industrie Design, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany
2006 – 2011
Lycee Saint Benoit d'Istanbul, Turkey

Experience

2019 – Present
PhD Candidate, Delft University of Technology
2019 – Present
Teaching Assistant, Delft University of Technology
2017 – 2018
Student Assistant, Delft University of Technology
2017
Research Intern, Delft University of Technology, Delft Institute of Positive Design
2015 – 2016
Freelance Graphic Designer