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Alongside my design practice, I also contribute through academic publications that explore user experience, design methods, smart technologies, and cultural change.

These articles reflect the research perspective behind my work and show how I approach complex design questions with both analytical depth and practical relevance.

2024

Conception of Smartness: A Design Research on User Experience of Smart Artifacts

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, United States.

Gizem Çelebi, F Pınar Özemir

A study on how users interpret “smartness” in connected products, focusing on the cognitive and emotional qualities that shape trust, usability, and perceived intelligence.

Smart technologiesUX researchHuman behaviorInteraction design

2024

Design (ing) fiction in the studio

International Journal of Technology and Design Education,

the Netherlands.

Abdullah Tarik Celik, Ali Cankat Alan, Gizem Çelebi, Cigdem Kaya

A study on applying design fiction in studio education to help students tackle complex future-oriented design challenges through speculation and systems thinking.

Design fictionFuture thinkingDesign educationSystems thinking

2022

A Framework Towards Understanding the Performativity of Products

diid disegno industriale industrial design, Italy.

Gizem Çelebi, Cigdem Kaya

A conceptual framework that rethinks products through performativity, showing how design can better account for action, interpretation, and interaction in everyday use.

Design theoryProduct designCritical designInteraction

2020

Re-defining Domestic Craft-Making: Cultivation of New Craft Practices and Identity Through the Social Media

Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers – DRS Pluriversal Design SIG Conference, United States.

Pelin Efilti, Gizem Çelebi

A paper on how social media transforms traditional craft practices, expanding creativity, community, and maker identity through digital culture.

Social mediaCraft cultureDesign researchDigital transformation

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