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Doga Buse Cavdir is an Assistant Professor of HCI and Design at the IT University of Copenhagen and Co-Head of the Affective Interactions and Relations (AIR) Lab. She is an affiliate at the ETHOS Lab. Her research lies at the intersection of creative practice, disability studies, performance-led research, and inclusive design. She develops new musical interfaces and interaction modalities that support equitable access to musical expression and performance, drawing on participatory design and practice-based methodologies that foreground first-person perspectives and diverse sensory ways of knowing.

She has been performing with her custom-designed, body-based musical instruments solo and with other performing artists. She has been selected as a MacDowell fellow and a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She holds a PhD from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, where she was selected as a Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) and Stanford Impact Labs fellow.

In her dissertation titled, Felt Design: Inclusive Practices for Movement-based Musical Instruments, she designs wearable interfaces into digital musical instrument design to develop more inclusive instrumental practice and to create opportunities for bodily felt experiences in interaction design across more diverse bodies and abilities. She works closely with disabled artists to critically design through performance and emphasize aesthetics in accessibility research.

She is currently looking for Master's and Ph.D. students who are interested in research in accessibility, disability studies, musical interaction, and creative practice.

If you are interested in submitting a joint project under my supervision at the IT University of Copenhagen for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026, please don't hesitate to contact me directly.