Community/Bestesi/Profile
Everything about myself
- Username
- Bestesi
- Name
- Beste Ozcan
- City
- Rome
- Country
- Italy
- Biography
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Beste Özcan is a postdoc research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (ISTC-CNR) working on interactive smart devices. She is the founder of “Transitional Wearable Companions (TWCs)” concept, brand, and its first applied award-winning prototype called “+me (PlusMe)”, which is a particular type of wearable social companion for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and “IM-TWIN system” concept, which is an AI based system for smart therapy of children with ASD. She is also interested in developing other types of experimental smart devices to augment empathy and reduce anxiety of humans. She is the author of the book “H+ design: time, space, human, machine”.
She has her PhD in design and innovation at the Vanvitelli University, Naples. During her international PhD program, she worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Malaga and the University of Lisbon for one year. After finishing her PhD, she also collaborated with the University of Ramon LLull La Salle, Barcelona and The University of Rome, Sapienza for one year. Her main research interests are social robotics, social-emotional interaction, children, wearable computing, social innovation through human and machine hybridity.
- Who are you?
- designer
- Gender
- female
- Birth year
- 1982
- Website
- https://www.beste-ozcan.com/, www.plusme.it, https://www.plusme-h2020.eu/, https://im-twin.eu/
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