Our faculty member in the Department of Communication Design at Özyeğin University and the director of the Design Interactions Lab, Gökçe Elif Baykal, as the principal investigator, and Demet Özer, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Bilkent University, as researcher, have been awarded support for their project titled "The Relationship Between Spatial Thinking Skills and Object Interaction in Virtual and Augmented Realities: A Research-Supported Educational Game Design Study for Children with Hearing Impairments" by the TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program for a period of 36 months.