Dr. Burcu Demiray | Department of Psychology | UZH

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Burcu Demiray, Dr.

Head Research Group

Phone: +41 44 635 74 16
Address: Binzmühlestrasse 14 / Box 24, CH-8050 Zurich
Room number: BIN 4.B.24

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Research Areas

I am a lifespan developmental psychologist and a research group leader focusing on cognitive activities and psychological well-being across adulthood. I use qualitative and quantitative methods, collect real world evidence (e.g., smartphone sensing, wearables) and use interdisciplinary approaches in data analytics (e.g., machine learning) to understand and promote healthy human development and longevity. The two cognitive activities I mainly study are lifelong learning and memory functions.

Lifelong learning, digital learning tools
E-learning in older age: Needs, challenges, opportunities
Memory functions across the adult life span (e.g., reminiscence, mental time travel, mind wandering)
Healthy cognitive aging and well-being
Behavior and context detection in real-life audio and speech data

Please find more information about my research on the following websites:

https://dizh.ch/en/2023/02/06/revolutionizing-education60-digital-lifelong-learning/

https://info.wise-learn.com/en/welcome/

https://www.erasmusplus60.uvsq.fr

https://www.hlc.uzh.ch/en/research_innovation/healthy_longevity_research_innovation_groups/coginno.html

Curriculum Vitae

CV Dr. Burcu Demiray (PDF, 496 KB)

Publications (ZORA)

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Ferrario, Andrea; Demiray, Burcu (2024). Understanding reminiscence and its negative functions in the everyday conversations of young adults: A machine learning approach. Heliyon, 10(1):e23825.
Schindler, David; Spors, Sascha; Demiray, Burcu; Krüger, Frank (2022). Automatic Behavior Assessment from Uncontrolled Everyday Audio Recordings by Deep Learning. Sensors, 22(22):8617.
Ferrario, Andrea; Luo, Minxia; Polsinelli, Angelina J; Moseley, Suzanne A; Mehl, Matthias R; Yordanova, Kristina; Martin, Mike; Demiray, Burcu (2022). Predicting Working Memory in Healthy Older Adults Using Real-Life Language and Social Context Information: A Machine Learning Approach. JMIR research protocols, 5(1):e28333.
Luo, Minxia; Debelak, Rudolf; Schneider, Gerold; Martin, Mike; Demiray, Burcu (2021). With a little help from familiar interlocutors: real-world language use in young and older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 25(12):2310-2319.
Stoev, Teodor; Ferrario, Andrea; Demiray, Burcu; Luo, Minxia; Martin, Mike; Yordanova, Kristina (2021). Coping With Imbalanced Data in the Automated Detection of Reminiscence From Everyday Life Conversations of Older Adults. IEEE Access, 9:116540-116551.
Luo, Minxia; Neysari, Mona; Schneider, Gerold; Martin, Mike; Demiray, Burcu (2020). Linear and Non-Linear Age Trajectories of Language Use: A Laboratory Observation Study of Couples' Conflict Conversations. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(9):e206-e214.
Ferrario, Andrea; Demiray, Burcu; Yordanova, Kristina; Luo, Minxia; Martin, Mike (2020). Social reminiscence in older adults' everyday conversations: automated detection using natural language processing and machine learning. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9):e19133.
Demiray, Burcu; Luo, Minxia; Tejeda-Padron, Alma; Mehl, Matthias R (2020). Sounds of Healthy Aging: Assessing Everyday Social and Cognitive Activity from Ecologically Sampled Ambient Audio Data. In: Hill, Patrick L; Allemand, Mathias. Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood. Cham: Springer, 111-132.
Brianza, Eliana Maria; Demiray, Burcu (2019). Future Time Perspective and Real-Life Utterances About the Future in Young and Older Adults. GeroPsych, 32(4):167-173.
Lind, Majse; Demiray, Burcu; Bluck, Susan (2019). Identifying distinct sets of predictors of specific functions of autobiographical memory. Memory, 27(9):1313-1318.
Luo, Minxia; Schneider, Gerold; Martin, Mike; Demiray, Burcu (2019). Cognitive Aging Effects on Language Use in Real-Life Contexts: A Naturalistic Observation Study. In: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC, 24 July 2019 - 27 July 2019, CogSci.
Ece, Berivan; Demiray, Burcu; Öner, Sezin; Gülgöz, Sami (2019). Comparison of Earliest and Later Autobiographical Memories in Young and Middle-Aged Adults. Psikoloji Çalışmaları - Studies in Psychology:45-78.
Demiray, Burcu; Mischler, Marianne; Martin, Mike (2019). Reminiscence in Everyday Conversations: A Naturalistic Observation Study of Older Adults. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74(5):745-755.
Hernández, N; Arnrich, B; Favela, J; Ersoy, C; Demiray, Burcu; Fontecha, J (2019). A multi-site study on walkability, data sharing and privacy perception using mobile sensing data gathered from the mk-sense platform. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 10(6):2199-2211.
Hernandez, Netzahualcoyotl; Demiray, Burcu; Arnrich, Bert; Favela, Jesus (2019). An Exploratory Study to Detect Temporal Orientation Using Bluetooth's sensor. In: the 13th EAI International Conference, Trento, Italy, 20 May 2019 - 23 May 2019. ACM, 292-297.
Wolf, Tabea; Demiray, Burcu (2019). The mood-enhancement function of autobiographical memories: Comparisons with other functions in terms of emotional valence. Consciousness and Cognition, 70:88-100.
Yordanova, Kristina Y; Demiray, Burcu; Mehl, Matthias R; Martin, Mike (2019). Automatic Detection of Everyday Social Behaviours and Environments from Verbatim Transcripts of Daily Conversations. In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Kyoto, Japan, 11 March 2019 - 15 March 2019. IEEE, 242-251.
Ece, Berivan; Demiray, Burcu; Gülgöz, Sami (2019). Consistency of adults' earliest memories across two years. Memory, 27(1):28-37.
Luo, Minxia; Robbins, Megan L; Martin, Mike; Demiray, Burcu (2019). Real-Life Language Use Across Different Interlocutors: A Naturalistic Observation Study of Adults Varying in Age. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1412.
Londral, Ana; Demiray, Burcu; Cheetham, Marcus (2018). Quantification of the Voicescape: A Person-centric Approach to Describing Real-life Behaviour Patterns - A Case Study Comparing Two Age Groups. In: 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 19 January 2018 - 21 January 2018. s.n., 311-314.
Demiray, Burcu; Mehl, Matthias R; Martin, Mike (2018). Conversational Time Travel: Evidence of a Retrospective Bias in Real Life Conversations. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2160.
Demiray, Burcu; Freund, Alexandra M (2017). The psychological distance of memories : Examining causal relations with mood and self-esteem in young, middle-aged and older adults. Consciousness and Cognition, 49:117-131.
Demiray, Burcu; Janssen, Steve M J (2015). The self-enhancement function of autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(1):49-60.
Maki, Yoichi; Kawasaki, Yayoi; Demiray, Burcu; Janssen, Steve M J (2015). Autobiographical memory functions in young Japanese men and women. Memory, 23(1):11-24.
Demiray, Burcu; Freund, Alexandra M (2015). Michael Jackson, Bin Laden and I: Functions of positive and negative, public and private flashbulb memories. Memory, 23(4):487-506.
Demiray, Burcu; Bluck, Susan (2014). Time since birth and time left to live: opposing forces in constructing psychological wellbeing. Ageing & Society, 34(7):1193-1218.
Demiray, Burcu; Bluck, Susan (2011). The relation of the conceptual self to recent and distant autobiographical memories. Memory, 19(8):975-992.
Bluck, Susan; Alea, Nicole; Demiray, Burcu (2010). You get what you need. In: Mace, John H. The Act of Remembering. Malden: Wiley, 284-307.
Demiray, Burcu; Gülgöz, Sami; Bluck, Susan (2009). Examining the life story account of the reminiscence bump: Why we remember more from young adulthood. Memory, 17(7):708-723.

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