Industrial Design / Endüstriyel Tasarım

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    Co-Design With Children With Cancer: Insights From What They Say, Make, and Do
    (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, 2023) Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Melis; Hasırcı, Deniz; Tunç Cox, Ayça
    Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar environments. These negatively affect their quality of life (QOL). This article reports a co-design process conducted with children with cancer to shed light on their needs with regard to the play area furniture at the hospital to recommend design ideas that might improve children's QOL. The results have shown that a modular furniture system that can be customizable by children might contribute to their QOL - thanks to its adaptability to the needs of a wide range of age groups. In addition, there is a possible link between co-design sessions and children's well-being in terms of an increased sense of control, socialization and physical activities. For designers- who are the facilitators of co-design sessions with children- actively involving caregivers in co-design processes, co-designing the generative tools and the process with participants, and conducting observations and interviews to shape and complement the co-design sessions are advised. The findings of this study are expected to assist designers, co-design practitioners and healthcare members.
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    Application of Human-Robot Interaction Features To Design and Purchase Processes of Home Robots
    (Springer, 2021) Yapıcı, Nur Beril; Tuğlular, Tuğkan; Başoğlu, Ahmet Nuri
    Production of home robots, such as robotic vacuum cleaners, currently focuses more on the technology and its engineering than the needs of people and their interaction with robots. An observation supporting this view is that the home robots are not customizable. In other words, buyers cannot select the features and built their home robots to order. Stemmed from this observation, the paper proposes an approach that starts with a classification of features of home robots. This classification concerns robot interaction with humans and the environment, a home in our case. Following the classification, the proposed approach utilizes a new hybrid model based on a built-to-order model and dynamic eco-strategy explorer model, enabling designers to develop a production line and buyers to customize their home robots with the classified features. Finally, we applied the proposed approach to robotic vacuum cleaners. We developed a feature model for robotic vacuum cleaners, from which we formed a common uses scenario model.
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    A Systematic Review of the Relations Between Industrial Design Education and Industry in Turkey Through Swot Analysis
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2013) Erkarslan, Önder
    This study aims to evaluate the strong and weak aspects of industrial product design (IPD) and industrial design (ID) education in Turkey in the context of their relations with Turkish industry. This study was conducted in four major phases. The study started with a SWOT analysis of the economy in Turkey and continued with an analysis of ID education using data on undergraduate and graduate education programmes, the number of faculty members, the number of graduates and the number of registered students. After identifying the profile of the industrial designer from the perspective of industry through online job advertisements, the correlation between the expectations of industry and the philosophy of ID and IPD education programmes in Turkey was analysed. The findings demonstrate that Turkey is behind other countries in terms of intellectual property rights, new products development and investment in new fields of business. Moreover, the share of resources allocated for research and development is insufficient. The education model of IPD and ID graduate programmes is inconsistent with the industry expectations. The expectations of the industry and the educational emphases of university programmes are extremely incompatible. The findings of this study will help to develop cooperation between industry and education programmes and will thus lead to better employment opportunities for graduates of IPD and ID programmes.
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    Optimization of Product Design Through Quality Function Deployment and Analytical Hierarchy Process: Case Study of a Ceramic Washbasin
    (Middle East Technical University, 2011) Erkarslan, Önder; Yılmaz, Hande
    Quality Function deployment (QFD) is a useful method for optimizing products which can be applied during the design process as well as in the postproduction process for further developments and revisions. This paper aims at examining the applicability of QFD and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to incorporate customer expectations and design quality into the product through a case study on a ceramic washbasin (1). In the first phase of the study customer needs and satisfaction are surveyed based on the current product design. This data is then merged with a Voice of Engineer (VOE) chart where technical attributes and features corresponding to the items in the Voice of Customer (VOC) are listed. By using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the customer needs as well as technical attributes are quantified and prioritized. Quality characteristics are then obtained by the calculation of customer weights according to the level of importance, which were then transformed into measurable technical attributes in the House of Quality (HOQ). Interrelations among customer requirements, technical attributes and planning blocks were put in a matrix in order to get precise evaluations. The findings of this study demonstrate that the application of QFD at an earlier period in the design phase can help to efficiently implement design remediation.
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    Modernlik Söylemi: Endişeli Bakışlarda Modern Birey
    (Middle East Technical University, 2010) Talu, Nilüfer
    19. yüzyılın son çeyreğinden günümüze, modernlik ve modern hayatın eleştirileri pek çok farklı disiplin üzerinden klasik teorik yazılar, imgeler, kültürel nesneler, mimari pratikler, bilimsel ve bilimsel olmayan makaleler gibi sayısız metin üzerinden beslenmektedir (1). Bu çalışmanın amacı sosyal bir durum olarak modernliği, farklı disiplinlerde üretilmiş çeşitli metinleri ile ve eşliğinde, modern bireyine odaklanarak bir söylem olarak ele almak ve analiz etmektir. Yapılan söylem analizi Michel Foucault’nun (1926-1984) Bilginin Arkeolojisi (L’archéologie du Savoir) (1969) adlı eserinde geliştirdiği kuramsal tartışma üzerine temellendirilmiştir. Temel olarak Foucaultgil bakış, eylemleri, sözleri, yazıları, imgeleri kapsayan ayrıştırılmış ifade grupları ve düzenlenmiş pratikler aracılığı ile toplumsal yaşam üzerinde bir anlam, bir etki, bir algı yaratılışının mekanizmalarını araştırır. Foucault çeşitli ve birbirinden farklı metinlerin nasıl bir araya gelerek belli bir bakış açısını ve bir söylemi oluşturduğu üzerine odaklanır.