Graduate School of Informatics

Interviews for 2018-2019 academic year fall semester Cyber Security Department Non-Thesis Program will be held on 25 July 2018.Candidates who will be invited to the interviews will be announced during the day.

There will not be any interviews for the Master without thesis program.

Interviews for 2018-2019 academic year fall semester Information Systems Department Master and PhD Programs will be held between 03-05 July 2018. Candidates who will be invited to the interviews will be announced after the application period ends.

Those, who finished 7 courses successfully, need to bring their petitions to the Student Affair Office at the Graduate School of Indormatics until 20 June Wendesday, in order to apply Transfer from Master Without Thesis Program to Master with thesis Program.

Title: ESSENTIAL DESIGN COMPONENTS OF GENETIC DATA ENABLED MOBILE PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS

PhD Candidate: Özlem Özkan

Program: Health Informatics Department 

Date: 09 July Monday 09:30

Place: Conference Hall-01

Abstract:The rapid growth in the use of genetic tests in healthcare has opened a new discussion on redesign of electronic health records to cover the genetic/genomic data. Today, this work is done in the same way with ordinary health data. However, genetic data has many unique properties that raise concerns on privacy and security issues and there are even special laws and acts to protect genetic/genomic in many countries. We strongly suggest Personal Health Records (PHR) systems for this purpose since it is under full control of the owner, and so has a great potential to cover privacy concerns. Thus, we applied four sub-studies in order to identify critical design issues of genetic data enabled mobile PHR in the scope of this dissertation. First, we analyzed the mobile application markets and evaluated the mPHRs in order to see what is in existing applications, and to identify the missing aspects. Second, with the help of the analysis results, a survey was developed and conducted to 174 people, half of which had genetic test experiences to reach publics concerns and views on the issue. Third, as a parallel study, 11 participatory design sessions with five participants were held and a paper prototype of genetic data included mPHR was developed as a result. Lastly, two focus group studies on collection of genetic data and confidentiality in Turkish health information systems were organized with 18 experts. By this way, all aspects of a genetic data enabled mPHR design were determined and presented to the literature.

Graduate School of Informatics /Cognitive Science

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Aysel Yasemin Göl will defend his thesis.

Title: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CHANGE BLINDNESS BY GROUP EYE TRACKING PARADIGM

Date: 01th June 2018

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: A-108

Thesis Abstract :The group effect refers to a decline in vigilance when an individual is in a social, group setting. Due to a diluted risk of being preyed upon and a higher number of group members that can detect a predator, members are less alert when they are in a group. The present study investigates if such an effect can be observed in human participants in a simple change detection task by employing group eye tracking (GET) paradigm. For this end, the visual phenomenon of change blindness is explored. In a within-subjects experiment, participants attempted to find if a change has been made to a stimulus they have previously seen. The same task was performed twice, once alone and once in a group of three while their eye movements were recorded with an eye tracker. Results of eye movement analysis show that, during the visual search for a change, eye movements are significantly slower when the participants are in groups (p < .01). The findings indicate that this effect may be related to a decline in vigilance and the group effect.

METU Informatics Institute is organizing monthly Friday Seminars series and Prof. Sadi Turgut from METU, Department of Physics is going to give the last talk of this semester. The title of his talk is “Quantum Computers”.

Location: Conference Room (124), METU Informatics Institute

Time: 8 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

This seminar is open to public and those outside METU have to register using Google Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2VLWyxjKMluS6tZwSFt742LLQkiUIKyEp3xzw6O186DojhA/viewform (Free Registration)

Short Biography:

Prof. Dr. Sadi Turgut is interested in the physics of information processing, especially quantum information.

BS, 1989, METU Physics,

PhD, 1995, UC Berkeley, Physics,

Working at METU, Physics Department since 1996.