communication
Name:

Deniz Ilkbasaran

dilkbasaran@ucsd.edu

Deniz Ilkbasaran
Education:
Ph.D. Student, Communication, University of California, San Diego

MA, Educational Technology, Concordia University, Montréal, 2007
Thesis: Sign Up! Development of an ASL Board Game for Hearing Families with Deaf Children

BA, Psychology, Koç University, İstanbul, 2002

Research Interests:

Deaf culture, heritage and media, sign language, instructional design, gaming and learning

Academic Experience:

2007 - present, Research Assistant of Dr. Carol Padden

2001 - 2004, Research Assistant of Dr. Aslı Özyürek at Koç University, Department of Psychology, working on Turkish Sign Language (TID)
http://turkisaretdili.ku.edu.tr

Conference Presentations:

February 2007, Poster: “Designing Game Environments for Sign Language Learning”, First Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) Student and Post-Doc Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

Department of Communication
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla
CA 92093-0503
Phone: (858) 534.4410
Fax: (858) 534.7315

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