About

Hi! I am Zana, a second year PhD Student at Harvard. My research interests lie primarily at the intersection of AI and HCI.

I design, build and evaluate AI-powered systems for decision-making support. I am also enthusiastic about FAT (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) in machine learning and AI for Social Good.

Prior to joining Intelligent Interactive Systems group as a PhD student, I was a member of the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab and the Multimedia, Vision & Graphics Lab at Koc University in Turkey, from where I obtained my master's degree in 2019. I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology in 2016.

Originally, I come from the capital city of a small country in southeastern Europe - Prishtina, Kosovo.

Publications

To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making

Zana Buçinca, Maja Barbara Malaya, Krzysztof Z. Gajos

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., CSCW1, 2021

Proxy Tasks and Subjective Measures Can Be Misleading in Evaluating XAI Systems

Zana Buçinca*, Phoebe Lin*, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Elena L. Glassman

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020

AffectON: Incorporating Affect Into Dialog Generation

Zana Buçinca, Yucel Yemez, Engin Erzin, Metin Sezgin

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020

Analysis of Engagement and User Experience with a Laughter Responsive Social Robot

Bekir Berker Türker, Zana Buçinca, Engin Erzin, Yücel Yemez, T. Metin Sezgin

interspeech, Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017 Jul 19, pp. 844-848

Real-time audiovisual laughter detection

Bekir Berker Türker, Zana Buçinca, T. Metin Sezgin, Yücel Yemez, Engin Erzin

2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2017 May, pp. 1-4