Yasemin joined the center as a research fellow in August 2020. She completed her bachelors in Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University (METU) and received her Master’s degree in Design for Interaction from a joint master program between METU (Turkey) and TU Delft (The Netherlands). She is interested in Human-Robot Interaction and people’s intrinsic motivation for interacting with smart technologies. In her PhD thesis, she will be focusing on Mode Awareness in Automated Vehicles.