Team Projects & Publications


A showcase of projects, research, and publications by the DotLAB team.

Projects and Publications

  • Evaluating Multiplayer Game-Based Training for Earthquake Evacuation: A Systematic Review 26 September 2025 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak, Ahmet Gün | ECGBL 2025 Proceedings | Conference paper | DOI: 10.34190/ecgbl.19.1.4000
  • Earthquake Evacuation Multiplayer Serious Game 2025 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak | Thesis project | Multiplayer serious game design for evacuation simulation
  • PhobiAR 2020-2021 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak | TUBITAK-funded AR project | Game Developer for psychotherapy-focused exposure applications
  • Benim Mutlu Çiftliğim 2022 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak | TUBITAK-funded educational digital game project for children aged 5-6
  • From STEM to STEAM in Digital Game Design: Artistic Leadership and Technical Integration in the Age of AI 2025 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak | Symposium paper / publication stage | Digital game design and AI-supported art-technology integration
  • Kültürel ve Politik Bağlamda Neşe Erdok'un "Ekmek" Tablosu 2026 | Berfin Deniz Çakmak | Symposium proceedings chapter (p. 44) | In: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nin 50. Yılında: Sanat ve Tasarımın Dünü, Bugünü ve Yarını Sempozyumu, eds. Hacı Yakup Öztuna & Gonca Karavar, İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 2026 — Catalog record
  • Embodied Inclusion: A Mixed Reality Intervention for Social Integration and Implications for the Turkish Educational Context 2025 | Nezir Uran et al. | Article under review | Mixed reality and social integration
  • From Ambient Play to Serious Gaming: Designing Structured Mechanics for Social Inclusion in Mixed Reality 2025 | Nezir Uran et al. | Article in editing process | Serious gaming and mixed reality design
  • Eco-Ludology: Gamifying Sustainability Project date not specified in CV | Nezir Uran | Erasmus+ project | Sustainability-focused game design project
  • EcoSafe-VR: Circular Economy Experience Project date not specified in CV | Nezir Uran | HORIZON project | VR-based circular economy experience
  • AI-Supported Hybrid Fire Prediction Model Project date not specified in CV | Nezir Uran | TÜBİTAK 1001 project | AI-supported hazard prediction
  • Existential Representations in the Metroidvania Genre: A Reading Through Hollow Knight 2025 | Volkan Yücel, A. Ö. | Journal article in publication process | Game studies
  • Face, Gaze, Silence: A Phenomenological and Ethical Study of Non-Dialogic RPG Narrative Through LLM and Micro-Expression Analysis 5-6 December 2025 | Volkan Yücel, Berk Er | Symposium paper | RPG narrative analysis
  • The Impact of Serious Games on Awareness and Behavioral Change: The Role of Player Agency and Moral Decision-Making 2-5 December 2024 | Volkan Yücel, İrem Aydındoğan | Conference paper | Serious games and player agency
  • Short-Form Play: The Micro-Dramaturgy and Interaction Dynamics of Game Narrative in Social Media Short Videos 5-6 November 2025 | Volkan Yücel, Berk Er | InMECS25 conference paper | Game narrative and interaction analysis
  • The Problems and Future of Game Development Engines: Unreal Engine, Unity, and CryEngine 25-27 November 2023 | Volkan Yücel | 12th International Social Sciences Symposium | Game engine studies
  • Children and Play 2020 | Volkan Yücel | Book chapter | Education and game studies
  • Harmful Digital Games and Children 2019 | Volkan Yücel | Peer-reviewed article and conference presentation | Digital game effects studies
  • Video Games as an Apocalyptic Ritual of Violence 21-22 April 2017 | Volkan Yücel, T. Z. | Conference paper | Video game studies
  • AI-Supported Hybrid Fire Evacuation and Risk Analysis 2025-ongoing | Volkan Yücel | Project | AI-supported evacuation and risk simulation
  • AI-Assisted Content Development and Voxel Converter for Game Platforms 2025-ongoing | Volkan Yücel | KOSGEB - Bilişim Vadisi project | AI-assisted game content pipeline
  • Gamified 3D Glass Print Modeling 2025-ongoing | Volkan Yücel | KOSGEB - Bilişim Vadisi project | Gamified production and design innovation
  • Hyper-heuristics: Autonomous Problem Solvers 2021 | Mustafa Mısır | Springer book chapter | AI, automated machine learning, and autonomous optimization
  • Algorithm Selection for Protein-Ligand Docking: Strategies and Analysis on ACE 2023 | Mustafa Mısır et al. | Scientific Reports | Machine learning and algorithm selection research
  • MC-GNNAS-Dock: Multi-criteria GNN-based Algorithm Selection for Molecular Docking 2025 | Mustafa Mısır et al. | PRICAI 2025 paper | AI, graph neural networks, and automated algorithm selection
  • Outperforming the Best with Minimal Effort: Algorithm Selection for Constrained Multi-objective Optimization 2025 | Mustafa Mısır, Aldy Gunawan | IEEE CEC paper | AI-driven optimization and selection systems
  • Privacy-Preserving Recommender System for Samsung TV Services 2012-2015 | Gökay Saldamlı | Samsung Research America | Machine learning system architecture for large-scale recommendation
  • Albatross: a Privacy-Preserving Location Sharing System 2015 | Gökay Saldamlı, R. Chow, H. Jin | ASIACCS paper | Mobile systems, privacy, and location-aware interaction
  • Vectorial Private Equality Testing 2013 | Gökay Saldamlı et al. | WiSec paper | Privacy-preserving computation and secure interaction systems