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Dr. Olcay Türk is a Researcher at Bielefeld University, holding dual affiliations with the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department of Linguistics) and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). She is actively engaged in the DFG-funded Transregio Collaborative Research Centre 318 (TRR 318) 'Constructing Explainability' as a scientific assistant for subproject A02: 'Observing and Evaluating the Understanding Process of an Explanation', conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of human cognition and technology.
Her primary research focuses on phonetics and speech technology, specifically analyzing how humans process explanations through acoustic and linguistic features. This work aligns with Bielefeld University's strategic research area Socio-Technical World, which investigates agent capabilities (humans, robots, AI) in complex environments. She contributes to the Phonetics research group within CITEC, emphasizing empirical methods in cognitive interaction systems.
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Dr. Türk's current role centers on the TRR 318 project as a scientific assistant, with no explicit mention of student advising or individual grant leadership. Her position involves collaborative work under the German Research Foundation (DFG) framework, focusing on third-party funded interdisciplinary research.
She operates within the Phonetics research group at CITEC, utilizing the institute's infrastructure for cognitive interaction studies. Her work is embedded in TRR 318's subproject A02 team, which collaborates across faculties to investigate explanation comprehension mechanisms in socio-technical systems.