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I'm Sukru Eraslan. I am an instructor in the Computer Engineering Program at Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus (METU NCC)

I completed my BSc in Information Systems Engineering at Cyprus International University in 2009 as the first ranked graduate. After that, I received my MSc in Information Technology (Data Engineering) at the University of Wolverhampton in 2011. I then completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Manchester in 2016 with the Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Simon Harper and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yeliz Yesilada.

Once I finished my PhD, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Interaction Analysis and Modelling Lab at METU NCC for two years and at the Institute of Coding at the University of Manchester for one year respectively.

My primary research interests are centered around human-web interaction. I am particularly interested in designing and developing methodologies, tools, and techniques for understanding and modelling human bahaviour on the web based on the eye movements of users. In addition, I undertake research in understanding and modelling of software engineering practices of learners to improve their learning experience.

Education

Awards

Education Awards

  • First Ranked Graduate
    Cyprus International University, 2009

Academic Paper Awards

Work

  • Software Specialist
    BTDAYS Technology Company, Cyprus

    November 2011 – September 2012

    BTDays is a techology company with expertise in POS (Point of Sale) application development, loyalty systems, and mobile application development.

Selected Projects

DDS: Data-Driven Segmentation

  • Role: Post-doctoral Researcher

    February 2017 – January 2019

  • Abstract: Web pages are typically designed to support visual interaction and so they include many visual elements. They are visually segmented into a number of blocks with different contents and roles but most of the time these are not explicitly encoded in the source code so are not accessible for machine consumption such as for screen readers or for information retrieval agents. To overcome this problem, many approaches have been proposed to automatically segment web pages but they have many shortcomings such as not being able to consider all the components of web pages such as stylesheets, scripts, and considering dynamic content, not being able to learn new visual designs and most importantly they are not driven by the understanding of the end users' interaction which can be an issue of identifying segments relevant to the users' task. The main objective of this project is to investigate different techniques for web page segmentation that address these limitations.
  • Website: http://iam.ncc.metu.edu.tr/dds/

eMine: Web Page Transcoding Based on Eye Tracking

  • Role: Research Assistant/Scholar

    June 2012 – December 2013

  • Abstract: The web has moved from the Desktop and now is ubiquitous. It can be accessed by a small device while the user is mobile or it can be accessed in audio if the user cannot see the content, for instance visually disabled users who use screen readers. However, since web pages are mainly designed for visual interaction; it is almost impossible to access them in alternative forms. Our overarching goal is to improve the user experience in such constrained environments by using a novel application of eye tracking technology. In brief, by relating scanpaths to the underlying source code of web pages, we aim to transcode web pages such that they are easier to access in constrained environments. The project is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
  • Website: http://emine.ncc.metu.edu.tr/index.html

Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Sukru Eraslan and Chris Bailey. 2019. End-User Evaluations. In Web Accessibility. Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer, London, Springer.

Journal Papers

  1. Sukru Eraslan, Kamilla Kopec-Harding, Caroline Jay, Suzanne M. Embury, Robert Haines, Julio Cesar Cortes Rios, Peter Crowther. 2020. Integrating GitLab Metrics into Coursework Consultation Sessions in a Software Engineering Course. Journal of Systems and Software (SCI-E), 167, 110613.
  2. Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Ruslan Mitkov. 2020. Detecting High-functioning Autism in Adults Using Eye Tracking and Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (SCI-E).
  3. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, Victoria Yaneva and Le An Ha. 2020. "Keep it Simple!" An Eye-tracking Study for Exploring Complexity and Distinguishability of Web Pages for People with Autism. Universal Access in the Information Society (SCI-E, SSCI).
  4. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2020. "The Best of Both Worlds!": Integration of Web Page and Eye Tracking Data Driven Approaches for Automatic AOI Detection. ACM Transactions on the Web (SCI-E), 14, 1, Article 1.
  5. Sukru Eraslan, Serkan Karabulut, Mehmet Can Atalay and Yeliz Yesilada. 2019. Evaluation of Visualisation of Scanpath Trend Analysis (ViSTA) Tool. Balkan Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, (ULAKBIM TR DIZIN), 7, 4, 373-383.
  6. Hakan Yekta Yatbaz, Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Enver Ever. 2019. Activity Recognition Using Binary Sensors for Elderly People Living Alone: Scanpath Trend Analysis Approach. IEEE Sensors Journal, (SCI-E), 19 , 17, 7575-7582.
  7. Sukru Eraslan, Victoria Yaneva, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2019. Web users with autism: eye tracking evidence for differences, Behaviour & Information Technology, (SCI-E, SSCI) 38, 7, 678-700.
  8. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2017. Less Users More Confidence: How AOIs Don't Affect Scanpath Trend Analysis. Journal of Eye Movement Research, (SCI-E), 10, 4, Article 6.
  9. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2016. Scanpath Trend Analysis on Web Pages: Clustering Eye Tracking Scanpaths. ACM Transactions on the Web, (SCI-E), 10, 4, Article 20.
  10. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2016. Eye Tracking Scanpath Analysis Techniques on Web Pages: A Survey, Evaluation and Comparison. Journal of Eye Movement Research, (SCI-E), 9, 1, Article 2.
  11. Sukru Eraslan and Yeliz Yesilada. 2015. Patterns in Eyetracking Scanpaths and the Affecting Factors. Journal of Web Engineering, (SCI-E), 14, 5-6, 363-385.

International Conference Papers

  1. Abdulrahman Zakrt, Abdulmalik Elmahgiubi, Beshir Alhomsi, Sukru Eraslan and Yeliz Yesilada. 2020. Eye-tracking Data Analyser (EDA): Web Applicationand Evaluation. In ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '20 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages.
  2. Naziha Shekh.Khalil, Ecem Dogruer, Abdulmohimen K. O. Elosta, Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2020. EyeCrowdata: Towards a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform for Web-related Eye-Tracking Data. In ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '20 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.
  3. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, Victoria Yaneva, and Simon Harper. 2020. Autism detection based on eye movement sequences on the web: a scanpath trend analysis approach. In Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–10.
  4. Simon Harper, Julia Mueller, Alan Davies, Hugo Nicolau, Sukru Eraslan, and Yeliz Yesilada. 2020. The case for "health related impairments and disabilities." In Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–7.
  5. Sukru Eraslan, Julio Cesar Cortes Rios, Kamilla Kopec-Harding, Suzanne M. Embury, Caroline Jay, Christopher Page, and Robert Haines. 2020. Errors and Poor Practices of Software Engineering Students in Using Git. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020 (CEP '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 8.
  6. Julio Cesar Cortes Rios, Kamilla Kopec-Harding, Sukru Eraslan, Christopher Page, Robert Haines, Caroline Jay, and Suzanne M. Embury. 2019. A methodology for using GitLab for software engineering learning analytics. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '19). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 3-6.
  7. Oludamilare Matthews, Sukru Eraslan, Victoria Yaneva, Alan Davies, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo, and Simon Harper. 2019. Combining Trending Scan Paths with Arousal to Model Visual Behaviour on the Web: A Case Study of Neurotypical People vs People with Autism. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 86-94.
  8. Simon Harper, Sukru Eraslan, and Yeliz Yesilada. 2019. It's All About the Message: Visual Experience is a Precursor to Accurate Auditory Interaction. In Proceedings of the 16th Web For All 2019 Personalization - Personalizing the Web (W4A '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 8 pages.
  9. Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Sukru Eraslan, and Yeliz Yesilada. 2019. Adults with High-functioning Autism Process Web Pages With Similar Accuracy but Higher Cognitive Effort Compared to Controls. In Proceedings of the 16th Web For All 2019 Personalization - Personalizing the Web (W4A '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 4 pages.
  10. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2018. Crowdsourcing a Corpus of Eye Tracking Data on Web Pages: A Methodology. In Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2018 (MB '18). Manchester, United Kingdom, 267-273.
  11. Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Ruslan Mitkov. 2018. Detecting Autism Based on Eye-Tracking Data from Web Searching Tasks. In Proceedings of the Internet of Accessible Things (W4A '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 16, 10 pages.
  12. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2017. Engineering web-based interactive systems: trend analysis in eye tracking scanpaths with a tolerance. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3-8.
  13. Sukru Eraslan, Victoria Yaneva, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2017. Do Web Users with Autism Experience Barriers When Searching for Information Within Web Pages?. In Proceedings of the 14th Web for All Conference on The Future of Accessible Work (W4A '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 4 pages.
  14. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2016. Trends in Eye Tracking Scanpaths: Segmentation Effect?. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15-25.
  15. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper and Alan Davies. 2016. What is Trending in Eye Tracking Scanpaths on Web Pages? In Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2016 (MB '16). Dublin, Ireland, 341-343.
  16. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, and Simon Harper. 2016. Eye tracking scanpath analysis on web pages: how many users?. In Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 103-110.
  17. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. Identifying Patterns in Eyetracking Scanpaths in Terms of Visual Elements of Web Pages. 2014. In: Casteleyn, S., Rossi, G. and Winckler, M. (Eds.) Web Engineering - ICWE 2014, LNCS, vol. 8541, Springer, 163-180.
  18. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. Understanding Eye Tracking Data for Re-engineering Web Pages. 2013. In: Sheng Q. Z. and Kjeldskov J. (Eds.) Current Trends in Web Engineering - ICWE 2013 Workshops and PhD Symposium. LNCS, vol. 8295, Springer, 345-349.
  19. Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper, and Sukru Eraslan. 2013. Experiential transcoding: an EyeTracking approach. In Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 4 pages.

National Conference Papers

  1. Sukru Eraslan, Hakan Yekta Yatbaz, Enver Ever and Yeliz Yesilada. 2020. Exploring Activity Transitions in the STA-based Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU '20) - Accepted
  2. Sukru Eraslan, Serkan Karabulut, Mehmet Can Atalay and Yeliz Yesilada. 2018. ViSTA: Visualisation of Scanpath Trend Analysis (STA). In Proceedings of the 12th Turkish National Symposium on Software Engineering (12. Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisligi Sempozyumu, UYMS '18), Article 46, 12 pages.
  3. Sukru Eraslan, and Yeliz Yesilada. 2017. The Effects of Web Page Design on Distribution of Users’ Interests: An Eye Tracking Study. In Proceedings of the 11th Turkish National Symposium on Software Engineering (11. Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisligi Sempozyumu, UYMS '17), 516-528.
  4. Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada and Simon Harper. 2013. Analysis of Algorithms to Identify Patterns in Eye-tracking Scanpaths. In Proceedings of the 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU '13), 1-4.

Newsletter Paper

  1. Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Sukru Eraslan and Yeliz Yesilada. 2018. Autism and the Web: Using Web-searching Tasks to Detect Autism and Improve Web Accessibility. ACM SIGACCESS Newsletter, Hugo Nicolau (Ed.), Issue 121 June 2018, Article 2.

Services

Journal Paper Reviews

Conference Paper Reviews

  • International Web for All Conference (W4A), 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
  • ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), 2018, 2019 & 2020
  • Workshop on Eye tracking for the Web (ETWEB) at ETRA, 2019 & 2020
  • IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2019
  • International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering (CSAE), 2019
  • ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2014* & 2017*
  • ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), 2016*
  • Turkish National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS), 2016*
  • International Symposium on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), 2015*

* Secondary Reviewer

Events & Academic Conferences

  • Judge, International Web for All Conference (W4A) - Web Accessibility Challenge, 2020
  • Program Committee Member, International Web for All Conference (W4A), 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Eye tracking for the Web (ETWEB) at ETRA, 2020
  • Workshop Organiser, Workshop on Eye tracking for the Web (ETWEB) at ETRA, 2019
  • Session Chair, Turkish National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS), 2017 & 2018
  • Web Chair & Jury Member, METU KALTEV Hackathon, 2017
  • Web Chair, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), 2015
  • Web Chair, Turkish National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS), 2014

Contacts

Location

Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus,
99738 Kalkanlı, Güzelyurt,
Mersin 10, Turkey

Email
seraslan@metu.edu.tr
eraslan.sukru@gmail.com
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