Publications
Clements-Cortés, A., Bryan, A., Faber, S., Forde, L., Hepdogan, D., Wang, Z., ... & Sixsmith, A. (2026). Music and dementia care: Future directions for research and innovation. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 10, 25424823251415163.
Gali, O., Ercan, S. B., Hepdogan, D., Atherton, G., Cross, L., & Pares, N. (2024, May). DragonIce, an Initial Full-Body Mixed Reality Experience to Facilitate Interpersonal Synchrony in Children. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).
Yildiz, M., Hepdogan, D., & Coskun, A. (2019). Living better with water: Identifying design considerations for products aimed at motivating regular water intake. Paper presented at the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference, 2019, Manchester, UK.
Erdogmus, Y., Arslan, D., Hepdogan, D., & Ozbay, Y. (2018) Does self-esteem predict the authenticity of self-presentation on instagram?. Koç University Undergraduate Psychology Journal, 6, 11-16.
Conference posters
Hepdogan, D., Clements-Cortés, A., Overy, K. & Sixsmith A. "Music and Dementia Care: Future Directions for Research and Innovation Through Collaboration", AGE-WELL Annual Conference, October 22-23, 2025, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Hepdogan, D. Preferred Music Listening During Transitions in Care Homes: Towards a Novel Music Listening Device, Advanced Care Research Centre Symposium, The University of Edinburgh, May 20, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Bryan, A., Hepdogan, D., Forde, L., Clements-Cortés, A., Overy, K. & Sixsmith A. The Music and Dementia Care (MDC) Network: An ACRC/AGE-WELL Collaboration. Advanced Care Research Centre Symposium, The University of Edinburgh, May 20, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Presentations
Hepdogan, D. "Music Listening in Care Homes: Towards a Novel Music Listening Device", Music4Change International Research School 2025, September 23, 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Workshops
Selected Works from My Master’s Degree
Thesis Work: Dragonice: Full-Body Interaction Mixed Reality System to Create Interpersonal Entrainment in Children Affiliated Lab: Full-Body Interaction Research Group
Course Work: A Synthetic Agent Who Mistook a Face for a Hat!
Developed a convolutIonal neural network model as an image classifier for doodle recognition inspired from the case of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks*.
*Sacks, O. (1998). The man who mistook his wife for a hat: And other clinical tales, New York. Touchstone, 9.​
Selected Works from My Undergraduate
UX Project: Temporal Explorations in UX
Designed an exercise tracker which reconstructs time representation, inspired by the cycle of the nature, to enhance the experience of "time passing" for people who do indoor exercises.
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Defined problem: How might we design a personal informatics tool which will focus on giving feedback on the passage of time during exercise?
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Proposal: To create an exercise tracker which represents time and leads users, who do indoor exercises regularly, to engage with time in a unique and shared way while exercising alone at their homes in these lockdown days.
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Methods: Survey, interviews, think-aloud testing
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Result: Mobile application design with earth tone colors along with neumorphic elements.
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