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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, Işil
We 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.
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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, Ebru
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Industrial design education in the age of digital products
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Karapars, Gülhis Zeynep; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil; KARAPARS, Gülhis Zeynep
Preparing product design students for the design of digital products provides a challenge for product design educators. This paper reports an experiment in a senior-year product design studio course. Students were assigned three projects with three different strategies based on the management and the structure of the design process. The analysis of observations on students’ design processes, semi-structured interviews with students, and the analysis of design solutions revealed that students mentally separate a product’s physical form and digital interface. Students reported time management as their biggest challenge for the design of digital products. Even though they experienced problems in their design process, they think interface design skills as a part of their professional requirements. These findings indicate a need to better address the design of digital products in product design curriculum in general and studio education in particular.
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Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis
(Springer, 2022-09) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
Product 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.
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User, research, and practice. learning from design consultancies
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This 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.
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Esnek çalışma mekânlarının çalışan memnuniyetine etkisinin akıllı bir ofis binası örneğinde i̇ncelenmesi
(Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesİ, 2018) Göçer, Özgür; Karahan, Ebru Ergöz; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Architecture; Industrial Design; GÖÇER, Özgür; KARAHAN, Ebru; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
Çalışma mekânları içinde bulundukları dönemin sosyo-kültürel, ekonomik ve toplumsal yapısı ile şekillenen ortamlardır. Günümüzde, teknolojinin ve sürdürülebilirlik olgusunun yaşam ve iş yapma biçimlerini değiştirmesiyle çalışma mekânları yeniden kurgulanmaktadır. Çalışma mekânlarının değişmesinde en etkili unsurlardan biri esneklik kavramıdır. Esnek çalışma mekânları çalışanların iletişimini kuvvetlendirecek ve yatay hiyerarşiyi destekleyecek şekilde tasarlanmaktadır. Esnek çalışma mekanlarında açık ofis alanları aktivite odaklı alanlarla desteklenmekte ve çalışanların konsantrasyon gerektiren çalışma, toplantı ve ekip çalışması gibi ihtiyaçlarını karşılayacak şekilde planlanmaktadır. Bu durumun bir göstergesi olarak günümüz bilgi ve teknoloji çağında organizasyonlar ofis olarak akıllı binaları ve esnek çalışma mekânlarını tercih etmeye başlamışlardır. Fiziksel çevre tasarımının çalışan memnuniyeti ve verimi üzerine etkileri bilindiğinden, bu yeni tip çalışma mekânları özelinde tasarımın ve çevre kalitesinin çalışan memnuniyeti, verimi ve yapılan işin kalitesine etkileri üzerine araştırmalar dünyada, özellikle Kuzey Amerika ve Avrupa’da hız kazanmıştır. Ancak, Türkiye’deki çalışma mekânları özelinde bu gibi çalışmalar sınırlıdır. Bu çalışmada, bu boşluğu doldurmak amacı ile İstanbul’da yer alan LEED sertifikalı bir binada hizmet veren bir firmanın esnek çalışma mekânı örnek olarak seçilmiştir. Anket, görüşme ve yerinde gözlem yöntemlerine dayanan bir kullanım sonrası değerlendirme çalışması yürütülmüştür. Elde edilen bulgular esnek çalışma düzeni, fiziksel çevre koşulları ve mekânsal tasarım bağlamında çalışan memnuniyetine etkileri açısından değerlendirilmiştir.
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Creative problem-solving assessment and product design education
(The Design Society, 2018) Oraklıbel, R. D.; Ülkebaş, S. D.; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This study reports findings from the administration of Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) to product design. The aim is to assess the applicability of CEDA in this discipline for the analysis of students’ level of creative problem-solving (CPS) abilities throughout the years of product design education. CEDA measures CPS in four dimensions; i.e., originality, usefulness, flexibility and fluency. 225 students studying at three universities from Istanbul, Turkey completed CEDA on a voluntary basis. The analysis of the data indicates statistically significant differences between 3rd and 4th (on originality), 1st and 3rd (on usefulness), 2nd and 4th (on originality and usefulness), and 1st and 4th (on all dimensions) year students’ CEDA scores. Originality aspect of creativity seems to develop more as the students get into their final year, whereas the usefulness develops starting from the second year. While CEDA was useful as a tool to discuss our studio pedagogies, our experience in applying it in the context of product design illustrates the need to revise the instrument according to the nature of this discipline.
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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, Ali
This 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.
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Exploring mobility & workplace choice in a flexible office through post-occupancy evaluation
(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Göçer, Özgür; Göçer, Kenan; Karahan, Ebru Ergöz; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Architecture; Industrial Design; GÖÇER, Özgür; KARAHAN, Ebru; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil; GÖÇER, Kenan
Developments in information and communication systems, organisational structure and the nature of work have contributed to the restructuring of work environments. In these new types of work environments, employees do not have assigned workplaces. This arrangement helps organisations to minimise rent costs and increase employee interaction and knowledge exchange through mobility. This post-occupancy evaluation (POE) study focuses on a flexible office in a Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building in Istanbul. An integrated qualitative and quantitative POE technique with occupancy tracking via barcode scanning and instant surveying has been introduced. Using this unique approach, we examined the directives/drivers in workplace choice and mobility from different perspectives. The aggregated data was used to discern work-related consequences such as flexibility, workplace choice, work and indoor environment satisfaction, place attachment and identity. The results show that employees who have a conventional working culture develop a new working style: ‘fixed-flexible working’.
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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, Işil
This 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.