Ege Otenen

Experience

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  Turco Pro

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Project Coordinator

  • Presented engaging recorded content across social media platforms (e.g., Instagram) achieving an audience engagement rate increase.

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  METU Child and Adolescent Development Laboratory

  Nov 2018 - Jun 2020

  Volunteer Research Assistant

  • Collected, transcribed and analyzed human data, assisting research projects.

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  Aarhus University - Center on Autobiographical Memory Research

  Aug 2019 - Sept 2019

  Summer Intern

  • Conducted qualitative analysis on 45 in-person interviews with Danish-Turkish participants to explore generational and cultural differences, uncovering insights on autobiographical memory and well-being.

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  Sabancı Üniversitesi

  Oct 2020 - Sept 2022

  Graduate Student Researcher

  • Designed and executed surveys and interviews on autobiographical memory, providing insights for human cognition, resulting in publications at PLOS ONE, CogSci’22, and CogSci’23 (DEI Award Winner).• Mentored 32 students in survey design and interview techniques, improving their experimental research and data collection skills (Experimental Design Course).• Adapted an autobiographical memory coding scheme to Turkish and trained 5 coders for linguistic analysis, streamlining lab research processes.• Directed an end-to-end eye-tracking study with 76 participants, yielding insights on perception, published in Current Psychology. Show less

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  Indiana University Bloomington

  Aug 2022 - now

  • Identified design elements for memory-aiding technologies through mixed-method studies on multimodal remembering, resulting in a publication and third-place award at CHI’24.• Executed co-creation sessions with users and AI agents on memory experiences, developing a framework on human-AI theory of mind (alignment), presented at CHI’24.• Conducted 15 usability testing sessions for a health app with diverse participants (African American, elderly), under review for publication in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.• Analyzed interviews and Reddit data to identify pain points in technology-mediated self-managed abortion, submitted for publication at CHI’25.• Enhanced mental health risk detection using web scraping and NLP to analyze online trends on Twitter, resulting in a publication at CogSci’23.• Conducted NLP analysis on generated data by ChatGPT and real human data, assessing the cognitive and emotional abilities of LLMs, published in Nature-Scientific Reports. Show less

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Graduate Student

    Aug 2022 - now
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  Princeton University

  Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  Visiting Student Researcher

  • Established a streamlined method using the OpenAI-API to analyze qualitative data from surveys.• Created cognitive models and network simulations using Python and R to explore human thought patterns, submitted for publication to SPSP.