Member of the Everyday Media Lab
Since June 2022, Büsra Sarigül has been working as a research associate and PhD student in the Everyday Media lab at the IWM. In her research, she focuses on the communication qualities of social agents in the context of multimodal integration.
Büsra Sarigül studied Psychology (B.Sc. 2016) at Ankara University. She completed her master's degree in Interdisciplinary Social Psychiatry at the same university in 2020. In her master's thesis, she explored how the appearance of robots shapes predictions and whether these predictions are similar to predictions made for humans. During her studies, she has been involved in various projects as a research assistant at Radboud University, University of Amsterdam, University of St Andrews and Goethe Institut.
Sarigul, B., & Urgen, B. A. (in press). Audio–visual predictive processing in the perception of humans and robots. International Journal of Social Robotics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-00990-6
Open Access
Sarigul, B., Saltik, I., Hokelek, B., & Urgen, B. A. (2020). Does the appearance of an agent affect how we perceive his/her voice? Audio-visual predictive processes in human-robot interaction. Proceedings of ACM HRI conference (HRI’20), March 23-26, 2020, Cambridge, UK (pp. 430-432). ACM. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378302
Cucicov, D., Mihaylova, T., & Sarigul, B. (2022). "Hi! How can AI help you?” An exploration of emotional chatbots. In G. Dimitrova-Dimova (Ed.), EthicAI=LABS 2021 Project Report (pp. 29-33). Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria. https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf268/--ethicai_labs_web_all_last_31-03-2022.pdf
Sarigul, B., & Utz, S. (2023, May 25-29). How credible are you? Examining gender stereotypes with voice assistants in terms of credibility and perceived intelligence. The 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Toronto, Canada. [Talk]
Sarigül, B., Schneider, F. M., & Utz, S. (2023, September 6–8). Believe it or not: Investigating the credibility of voice assistants through the effects of relationship types. 13th Conference of the Media Psychology Division (German Psychological Society, DGPs). Luxembourg. [Poster]
Utz, S., Anderl, C., Fiedler, P., Han, J., Sarigül, B., Schneider, F. M., & Klein, S. (2023, September 6–8). How credible is ChatGPT? An experimental comparison of ChatGPT, Alexa, and Wikipedia. 13th Conference of the Media Psychology Division (German Psychological Society, DGPs). Luxembourg. [Talk]
Büsra Sarigül
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