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Personal site of Semra Gulce Turan, working in ops and research and building things, currently at Nexus Mutual.
CV of Semra Gulce Turan: community and research roles at Nexus Mutual, reState Foundation, and 212.vc, plus publications and education.
A miscellany of favourite quotes, photography, cinema, and music from Semra Gulce Turan, outside of work and research.
A portfolio of design and research projects by Semra Gulce Turan, spanning community tools, interaction design, and product work.
Academic publications by Semra Gulce Turan on human-computer interaction, focus, and inclusive user experience research.
A full listing of every page, post, and collection published on this site.
Blog posts by Semra Gulce Turan, grouped by tag.
An interactive map of every place Semra Gulce Turan has given a talk, generated from the talks collection.
Talks, workshops, and announcements from Semra Gulce Turan.
This site’s privacy policy: what visitor data is collected, how cookies are used, and how personal information is handled.
Blog posts by Semra Gulce Turan on venture capital, governance, startups, and design, archived by year.
Invite me to your permaculture farm, I’ll bring snacks 🌾
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Steampunk always gets me thinking—what if tech had evolved in a totally different direction? 🔩
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I’m obsessed with solarpunk—hopeful futures, green cities, and stronger communities? Yes please! 🌱
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Open source has my whole heart 🌐🛠.
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I love dreaming about the future of the Internet—here’s to (hopefully) building some beautiful open gardens.
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I have been co-writing the Hedge, providing weekly updates about key quantitative metrics, governance and ecosystem news about and around Nexus Mutual DAO since mid 2022.
This is a blog post I wrote for 212 Venture Capital’s blog on Medium. You may view the original post here.
This is a blog post I wrote for 212 Venture Capital’s blog on Medium. You may view the original post here.
This is a blog post I wrote for 212 Venture Capital’s blog on Medium. You may view the original post here.
This is a blog post I wrote for 212 Venture Capital’s blog on Medium. You may view the original post here.
This is a blog post I wrote for 212 Venture Capital’s blog on Medium. You may view the original post here.
Manifesto and collective vision for digital cooperation beyond capitalism.png)
Taxonomy and visualization of threats in decentralized systems.png)
Co-building a taxonomy and structure for the database
Community-driven design for a desk lamp signaling attention
Kitchen add-on hardware and software to cook with internet friends
Co-building an iOS application with QR-based item scanner, RFID-based object movement control and external database connection
Mass Payouts, Settlement to Balance & Refund to Balance
Website development to test for better ways of interacting with complex information
Published in ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2017
A critical review of user experience studies conducted with autistic participants between 2010 and 2016, identifying common practices and major methodological problems.
Recommended citation: Doga Corlu, Seyma Tasel, Semra Gulce Turan, Athanasios Gatos, and Asim Evren Yantac. (2017). "Involving Autistics in User Experience Studies: A Critical Review." ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2017. /files/corlu-2017.pdf
Published in ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2019
This paper is about an attention awareness and communication regulation system for physical communities and organizations.
Recommended citation: Semra Gulce Turan, Silas Ramsoe Ozaltin, and Asim Evren Yantac. (2019). "Designing calmworklight: Signaling Focus with a Desk Light." ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019. /files/turan-2019.pdf
Received a travel grant from TU Munich’s Forum of Women to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Volunteer translation of Harvard’s CS50x Introduction to Computer Science course from English into Turkish.
Reinvigorating multilateralism in a post-pandemic world – What is ahead for Turkey-European relations?
Selected as a fellow for the Turkey Europe Future Forum, discussing multilateralism and Turkey-European relations post-pandemic.
Accepted into Sky Blue, Common Purpose’s online leadership programme for people working on environmental challenges.
Volunteering with Kodluyoruz.org to translate the official Unity game engine documentation into Turkish.
Organizing the Governance Reading Group, a biweekly online group studying cooperatives, commons management, and decentralized governance.
Organizing the first cohort of the DeFi & Risk Learning Group, a bi-weekly online community exploring DeFi and risk management.