
Umut Can Vural
Research Associate
Kontakt
- +49 761 200-1479
- umut.vural@kh-freiburg.de
- Raum: 2400
Research projects
- DiBiWohn - Digital educational processes for older people in senior-specific residential forms of institutionalised care for the elderly
Professional Career
- 2016 - 2017: Research Assistant, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen
- 2019 - 2020: Research Assistant, Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECOG), University of Potsdam
- 2020 - 2022: Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
- 2020 - 2022: Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
- 2022 - 2024: Research Associate, Affective & Cognitive Institute, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
- 2023 – present: Research Associate, Cognitive Robotics Lab, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences
- Since 2025: Academic assistant, IAF of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
Main areas of work and research
- Cognitive Science and Embodied Cognition
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Quantitative Data Analysis and Statistics
- Virtual Reality Applications in Psychology
- Neuroscience (EEG-based studies)
- Assistive Technologies for Healthcare
Publications
Schnitzer, B., Vural, U. C., Schnitzer, B., Sardar, M. U., Fuerst, O. & Korn, O. (2024). Prototyping a Zoomorphic Interactive Robot Companion with Emotion Recognition and Affective Voice Interaction for Elderly People. Proc. ACM Hum. - Comput. Interact., Vol 8. Article:242. 1-32. Doi: 10.1145/3660244
Felisatti, A., Vural, U. C., & Fischer, M. H. (2021). Fingers tracking numbers: The use of Leap Motion to explore the functional link between fingers and numbers. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP); Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.
Lübs, L., Muldoon, N., Vural, U., Drell, C., Stalling, I., Easton, C., & Bammann, K. (2017). Validation of accelerometry with ActiGraph GT3x to estimate physical activity intensity in older adults (55-75 years). Das Gesundheitswesen, 79(08/09), 656-804. Doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1605795