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ArticlePublication Open Access Designing on the spot: Learning from the social design projects in Gökçeada/Imbros island(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) Erözçeli̇k, Meram Alayça; Taşdizen, Burak; Industrial Design; TAŞDİZEN, BurakDesign for social innovation is the emerging movement of the 21st century. Nonetheless, the socioeconomic impact of social design projects is conditional upon their multifaceted conception and upon their array of influence. In Turkey as elsewhere, sustainability is one of the main issues of social design projects in urban/rural territories. Generating innovation at the local level and for individual people also rely on design teams’ persistency on penetrating on local communities’ lives. This paper will focus on the design workshop series implemented on Gökçeada/ Imbros Island between 2014 and 2016. By expanding the problematics of sustainability in social design projects, the paper will propose a three years’ experience with academic purposes, based on benevolent participation and unfunded co-design. Finally, this paper will aim to contribute to the social design literature by illustrating a model of “designing on the spot” concept, for the sake of sustainable, long run design projects.ArticlePublication Open Access Facebook as a boundary object in industrial design studio. A sotl study(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Ülkebaş, S. D.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilWe introduced Facebook groups as instructional tools in our industrial design studio courses. One of us experienced the effects of Facebook on freshmen while the other examined it with sophomores and juniors. Our analysis of the data focused on the content of students’ posts on Facebook groups, informal student interviews, our experiences in studios, and our reflective cross-evaluation. Our comparative analysis showed that Facebook better serves as a boundary object in the later years of design education. The freshmen, and partly sophomore, were not able to make effective use of this medium for exchanging knowledge. From the perspective of SoTL, this study not only helped us to experiment ways of advancing our pedagogy but also served as a platform for us to discuss and exchange knowledge on teaching and learning that is taking place in studio.ArticlePublication Open Access User, research, and practice. learning from design consultancies(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilThis paper reports a study that focuses on the impact of design research department on a consultancy's design process. Six 10-business-day long field studies were conducted at design consultancies representing architecture, industrial design, and interaction design. The findings show that design research departments impact the design process through design research outcomes and processes. Design research outcomes mainly target the client; but also serve as a validation tool for designers, provide a checklist for designers to target, and work as a boundary object between the client and the design team. In contrast to research outcomes, the design research processes were observed to have a deeper impact on designers through collaborative learning, contextual information, shared user scenarios, focus on user experience, and project rooms. In conclusion, rather than the existence of a design research department, the active participation of designers in the user involvement process has the biggest impact on the design process.
ArticlePublication Metadata only Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse(Taylor & Francis, 2023-12) Özturan, Emrah; Industrial Design; ÖZTURAN, EmrahAiming to illustrate the populist influences on design mediation, this paper explores the characteristics of a new and legitimate designer profile, persona, or myth recently constructed within the Turkish advertising discourse. To achieve this, three video advertisements that mediate designers and are influenced by the ‘domestic and national’ discourse—a representative of the national populist wave that recently dominated Turkish politics—were analysed. The analysis reveals how designers and their creative labour are portrayed to align with broader political climates, reflecting certain notions of national populism. These new, culturally and politically legitimate designers are portrayed not only as Turkish nationals and patriots but also as the ‘children of these lands’, living, thinking, and feeling like the average and ‘real’ people these political discourses claim to represent. In parallel, the analysis highlights the significant role of populism’s marked opposition towards foreigners and local foreigners while constructing and mediating these designer profiles.ArticlePublication Metadata only A study on the adoption of virtual reality in industrial design education(IEEE, 2023-12-01) Hamurcu, A.; Timur, Şebnem; Rizvanoglu, K.; Industrial Design; TİMUR, ŞebnemVirtual reality (VR) technology has been commercially and economically accessible to industrial designers for the past seven years, following the introduction of VR glasses and headsets, e.g., the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, in 2016. However, despite the growing popularity of VR implementations in education, it remains unclear to what extent industrial design (ID) students and instructors will adopt this technology. Hence, this article discusses the limited adoption of VR technology in ID education based on the analysis of qualitative data obtained from ID students and instructors, specifically their perspectives on integrating VR into the education process. The dataset comprises written and verbal expressions obtained through an online form and a group discussion session. The findings obtained from the analysis conducted through the content analysis approach suggest that both ID students and instructors harbor concerns regarding the incorporation of VR technology in ID education. These reservations primarily revolve around the potential adverse impacts of VR usage on students' skill development in terms of manual dexterity and material knowledge, as well as the effectiveness of its implementation within the context of ID education.ReviewPublication Metadata only International design organizations: Histories, legacies, values(Oxford University Press, 2023-08-21) Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit AlpayN/AConference paperPublication Metadata only What is the role of interaction design of triangulation elements in encouraging citizens towards social interaction?(Springer, 2022) Günay, Pelin; Industrial Design; GÜNAY, PelinUrban public spaces set the conditions for social life, becoming familiar with other inhabitants and the rhythms of the city, assigning meanings, everyday individual and collective experience and actions develop social connections. This PhD research questions the role of design as an interaction initiator between citizens in public settings. The objective is to explore how interaction design of '21st cc triangulation elements' initiate social interaction and the role of body movements, through designing mediators that afford a redescribed body response. A corpus collection is developed and analysed using methods adopted from grounded theory. Analysed data provided further information to base the flow of interview and focus group studies. Findings from those studies will generate design parameters for the concept development and testing for the future of the study.ArticlePublication Metadata only Human-thing relations in design: A framework based on postphenomenology and material engagement theory(Middle East Technical University, 2022) Aktaş, B. M.; Tok, Tuğba; Gürtekin, B.; Kaygan, H.; Dilek, Ö.; Özçelik, A.; Akın, F.; Büyükkeçeci, E.; Industrial Design; TOK, TuğbaStarting with the earlier work of Don Ihde, postphenomenological studies in philosophy of technology have been documenting the many ways in which technologies shape human beings’ relationship to the world. More recently, Material Engagement Theory (MET), originating from cognitive archaeology, ofers descriptions of how human thinking and capacities have been shaped through creative material engagements with the world. Based on a recent collaboration by Ihde and Malafouris (2018), this study applies the joint framework of postphenomenology and MET to design research in light of the rising interest in design literature into relational ontologies and embodied practices. The study is built on data from seven case studies of practices in creative engagement with materials and tools, three out of which are reviewed in depth, namely: felt making, make-up, studio camera operation. The cases are analyzed through the joint theoretical lens to identify and describe the human-thing relations as observed in design. We describe such relations as creative and exploratory, materially and socially relational, reciprocally mediated, situated, embodied, and skilled. Our emphasis is on the first three of these six characteristics, emphasizing relationality, reciprocal mediation, and creativity in engagement, as signifcant contributions of the joint framework to understanding design, making and use in design research. Our conclusion includes a discussion of future research opportunities for studies based on the joint framework.ArticlePublication Open Access Cyborg encounters: Three art-science interactions(Springer, 2022-08) Ural, Ayşe Melis Okay; Taşdizen, Burak; McKinnon Bell, C. J.; İrez, Beyza Dilem Topdal; Şahinol, M.; Industrial Design; TAŞDİZEN, Burak; Ural, Ayşe Melis Okay; İrez, Beyza Dilem TopdalThis contribution includes three selected works from an exhibition on Cyborg Encounters. These works deal with hybrid connections of human and non-human species that (might) emerge as a result of enhancement technologies and bio-technological developments. They offer not only an artistic exploration of contemporary but also futuristic aspects of the subject. Followed by an introduction by Melike Şahinol, Critically Endangered Artwork (by Ayşe Melis Okay) highlights Turkey’s ongoing problems of food poverty and the amount of decreasing agricultural lands. It displays seeds of a promising endemic plant to mitigate these problems using the seeds of the Thermopsis Turcica, a herbaceous perennial endemic plant. Ecomasculinist Pregnancy (by Burak Taşdizen and Charles John McKinnon Bell) follows the design fiction methodology and illustrates a future scenario through a patient’s diary and the medical letters he receives during his pregnancy with an extinct sea-lion. Polluted Homes (by Beyza Dilem Topdal) is a fictional art installation consisting of polychaete species evolved in time under the ecological circumstances prevalent in the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara today. These works show, that manufacturing life has consequences, not only for the human body and its physical appearance, but also, for example, for gender orders, the social structure of society, and even the environment, and thus for (re)shaping (non)living matter and their environments. This Art-Science Collection intends to provide an impetus for debate about the extent to which cyborg encounters should be taken seriously.ArticlePublication Open Access Hybrid workplace: Activity-based office design in a post-pandemic era(Wiley, 2022-09) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Karahan, Ebru Ergöz; Architecture; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil; KARAHAN, EbruN/AArticlePublication Open Access Conceptions of professionalism in U.S. research universities: Evidence from the gradSERU survey(Springer, 2022-12) Brint, S.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanRecent scholars of the professions have argued that a new hybrid form of professionalism is becoming dominant. This new form combines traditional commitments to ethics and community service with new commitments to managerial and entrepreneurial objectives. We analyze the perceptions of 4,300 U.S. graduate students in 21 fields concerning how well their programs have prepared them for leadership and management and for ethics and community service. These assessments allow us to examine the prevalence of this new conception of professionalism and to examine it in relation to two other conceptions: the “neo-classical” emphasis on ethics and community service as opposed to leadership and management, and another that emphasizes a divergence between business and technical professions on one side and social and cultural professions on the other. Hybridization was comparatively rare but occurred more frequently among students preparing for management, law, and medicine, and among men and students from more affluent families. We also find some support for the neo-classical thesis insofar as students tended to score higher on the ethics and community measure than on the leadership and management measure. However, the largest number of students took positions consistent with the divergence thesis.Conference paperPublication Metadata only Studying children's manipulative gestures in spatial puzzle play with VR hand tracking: Analysis of goal-directed actions(ACM, 2022-12-01) Baykal, Gökçe Elif; Leylekoğlu, Ali; Sezer, Can Bora; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Communication Design; Industrial Design; BAYKAL, Gökçe Elif; SEZER, Can Bora; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil; Leylekoğlu, AliThis paper presents insights about children's manipulative gestures in a spatial puzzle play (i.e. tangram) in both real and virtual environments. We present our initial work with 11 children (aged between 7 and 14) and preliminary results based on a qualitative analysis of children's goal-directed actions as one dimension of gestural input. Based on our early results, we list a set of goal-directed actions as a first stage for developing a manipulative gestural taxonomy. For a more comprehensive view, we suggest a further in-depth investigation of these actions combined with hand and finger kinematics, and outline a number of paths for future research.Conference paperPublication Metadata only ETHICS-2021 Special Session 1: Corporate social responsibility and engineering education: ETHICS-202l Special Session, Thursday October 28,2021,3:00-4:30 PM ET(IEEE, 2021) Zhu, Q.; Martini, L.; McClelland, C.; Battalora, L.; Rulifson, G.; Kleine, M. S.; West, S.; Lucena, J.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Claussen, S.; Geiger, R.; Smith, J. M.; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanCorporate social responsibility has a chameleon-like character. It exists as part of a larger ecology of related concepts: sustainability, corporate citizenship, business accountability, social performance, sustainable development, creating shared value, and ESG (environmental, social and governance). Its definition shifts by industry, geographic context, and company invoking the term. Some academics dismiss CSR as greenwash, while others uncritically treat it as a silver bullet for reconciling ethics and economics, morality and the market. This roundtable session highlights current research and practice on training engineers to navigate CSR as a heterogeneous and ethically complex field of practice. The roundtable will feature brief presentations on each topic and then be opened to discussion. Topics range from findings from a five-year research project that infused ethnographic research on CSR into engineering curricula at four different universities, to theories of 'relational CSR,' to assessments of the professional prospects for 'engineers for good' in the corporate job market.ArticlePublication Metadata only Transdisciplinarity as a learning challenge: Student experiences and outcomes in an innovative course on wearable and collaborative robotics(IEEE) Kılıç-Bebek, Ebru; Nizamis, K.; Vlutters, M.; Bebek, Özkan; Karapars, Gülhis Zeynep; Ünal, Ramazan; Yılmaz, Deniz; Uğurlu, Regaip Barkan; Industrial Design; Sectoral Education and Professional Development; Mechanical Engineering; Mitchell, J.; BEBEK, Ebru Kılıç; KARAPARS, Gülhis Zeynep; BEBEK, Özkan; ÜNAL, Ramazan; UĞURLU, Regaip Barkan; Yılmaz, DenizContribution: This study provides evidence for the benefit of short online courses for transdisciplinary competence development of graduate students. It shows the significant challenges students face while learning, and provides instructional recommendations to improve students’ learning quality and professionalism. Background: Developing wearable and collaborative robots requires industry collaboration and transdisciplinary competence. Industry’s involvement in long-term programs is becoming infeasible, and the nature of transdisciplinary learning has not been explored to inform instructional practices. Intended Outcomes: This study aimed to provide instructional recommendations based on an in-depth examination of a diverse group of graduate students’ learning and teamwork experiences as well as outcomes in a 5-day online transdisciplinary course. Application Design: 31 graduate students of engineering, industrial design, and health fields from 4 countries participated in online mixed-discipline instructional sessions and teams to address a real industry challenge. A mixed-methods approach was used to examine students’ experiences and learning outcomes based on a competence measure, session participation data, student journal entries, team progress reports, team elaboration visuals, and final team presentations. Findings: Students’ knowledge of industrial design, medical considerations, ethics and standards, effective teamwork, and self-regulated learning were increased. Students’ high motivation helped them deal with the challenges involved. Daily student journals, team reports, and visual elaboration tools were found to be beneficial for determining the challenges and learning quality. The observed student progress within 5 days is promising, making it worthwhile to further explore the benefits of short online courses for increasing graduates’ readiness and establishing university-industry collaborations in education.Conference paperPublication Metadata only The lived experience of child-owned wearables: Comparing children's and parents’ perspectives on activity tracking(Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Su, Z.; Epstein, D. A.; Chen, Y.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilChildren are increasingly using wearables with physical activity tracking features. Although research has designed and evaluated novel features for supporting parent-child collaboration with these wearables, less is known about how families naturally adopt and use these technologies in their everyday life. We conducted interviews with 17 families who have naturally adopted child-owned wearables to understand how they use wearables individually and collaboratively. Parents are primarily motivated to use child-owned wearables for children's long-term health and wellbeing, whereas children mostly seek out entertainment and feeling accomplished through reaching goals. Children are often unable to interpret or contextualize the measures that wearables record, while parents do not regularly track these measures and focus on deviations from their children's routines. We discuss opportunities for making naturally-occurring family moments educational to positively contribute to children's conceptual understanding of health, such as developing age-appropriate trackable metrics for shared goal-setting and data refection.ArticlePublication Metadata only Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis(Springer, 2022-09) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilProduct design expertise has mostly been studied in relation to problem-solving and the act of designing. In this paper, we approach the topic from another perspective and explore the differences in product perception of students from different education levels. We conceptualize product perception as a representation of critical thinking towards designed objects and professional assessment/understanding of artifacts. Our aim is to evaluate how students’ product perception change over the years of undergraduate product design education. Data was collected through students’ written product evaluations of a ball-point pen. 41 first-year, 29 second-year, 33 third-year, and 26 fourth-year undergraduate product design students participated in the study. We analyzed students’ product evaluations through initial and focused coding. Our findings indicate a shift from ordinary to professional sense-making between the second- and third-year students. There are three main points that define the professional sense-making of students: a dependence on subjectivity, the significance attributed to users, and better synthetic capabilities that are built around form, material, manufacturing, and detailing relationships.ArticlePublication Metadata only Medicalised masculinities in Turkey and Iran: The eigensinn of hair in hair transplantation(Edinburgh University Press, 2021-04) Şahinol, M.; Taşdizen, Burak; Industrial Design; TAŞDİZEN, BurakGrowing cultural enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery and the techno-medical modification of the body have had a considerable impact on men in recent years making it the driving force behind the medicalisation of masculinities (Syzmczak and Conrad 2006). Among the top five cosmetic procedures most frequently chosen by men are laser hair removal in the category of cosmetic minimally invasive procedures and hair transplantation in the category of cosmetic surgical procedures (American Society of Plastic Surgeons 2019). Turkey is the world’s leading destination for medical services and a leading country of medical tourism. Its beauty tourism is particularly noteworthy making the country attractive for ‘demand-oriented’ and ‘wish-fulfilling’ cosmetic procedures for the West, the Middle East as well as locals. With a special emphasis on the somatechnics of shaping men’s hair, this article analyses the currents of hair transplantation practices and after-care in shaping masculinities in Turkey and its regional competitor Iran. By building on the existing literature, we extend the discussion on male haircare with hair as the bios as part of emerging socio-bio-technical entities.ArticlePublication Metadata only Raising the responsible child: collaborative work in the use of activity trackers for children(Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020-10-14) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Epstein, D. A.; Chen, Y.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilCommercial activity trackers are increasingly being designed for children as young as 3 years old. However, we have limited understanding of family use practices around these trackers. To provide an overall view of how families naturally use activity trackers towards collaborative management of family health, we systematically identified 9 trackers designed for children available on 4 consumer electronics retailers. Our data is composed of 2,628 user reviews both from the consumer retailers (for the wearables) and mobile application stores (for the associated apps). Our findings indicate children's and parents' collaborative use of these technologies beyond health and wellness. Parents state that their children enjoy practicing independence and rewards while contributing to family health management and daily life requirements. Parents expect these devices to ease their life and to teach their children to become more responsible for their health, daily tasks, and schedule. However, the current designs give limited agency on child's side and require parents' active participation for wearable-app coordination. For these reasons, they do not fully address parents' expectations in decreasing their workload. On the other hand, they have the potential to facilitate family interaction with challenges structured around the data reported through trackers.ArticlePublication Metadata only Riding a long green wave: interdisciplinary environmental sciences and studies in higher education(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Johnson, E. W.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Frickel, S.; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanWhat accounts for the remarkable growth of environmental sciences and studies (ESS) in US higher education over the past 50 years? This paper focuses on institutional characteristics to explain this 'long green wave' of expansion. Drawing on data from 1345 US higher-education institutions from 1980-2010, we employ three-level hierarchical models to assess institutional and state-level factors associated with the presence of environmental studies and sciences. Findings indicate that environmental studies majors are most likely to be present at liberal arts schools and in states more inclined to adopting environmentally friendly policies, and less likely to exist at schools with large minority enrollments. Environmental sciences majors are less likely to be present at schools with large female enrollments. Two case studies of early adopters highlight the role of faculty, rather than student activists, as change-agents pushing for the development of ESS on college campuses in the 1960s and 70s.ArticlePublication Metadata only Change in industrial designers’ jobs: The case of Turkey, 1984-2018(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-21) Kaygan, P.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilThis paper examines the change in the forms of employment of industrial designers between 1984 and 2018 in Turkey. The empirical data come from the graduates of the four oldest industrial design departments in the country. Utilizing multiple sources, we collected longitudinal data on forms of employment and duration of jobs for a total of 1205 individuals. Drawing on this data, we present a descriptive analysis of the changing job patterns in in-house employment, self-employment, freelance work, academic jobs and part-time teaching jobs. Our findings show that throughout the three and a half decades (1) in-house employment remains the main form of employment, in which UX-focused jobs emerge as a recent and consistently increasing subcategory, (2) the percentage of self-employed job types dropped significantly, and this lacuna was filled by freelance jobs, and (3) there is a considerable increase in women's participation in industrial design jobs, particularly in in-house positions.