Design students need to explore the problem domain in order to respond to a design problem. Users... more Design students need to explore the problem domain in order to respond to a design problem. Users’ disability or health problems, distant cultures or geographies, or time constraints may prevent students from having direct access to users or the usage contexts. Under those circumstances, students were observed that they consulted user-generated online videos such as YouTube videos, and that they employed role-playing techniques to have subjective embodied experiences and a deeper understanding of the problem. Within the scope of this study, a method for the exploratory research in the early phases of the design process was developed to be employed by design tutors and students when direct contact with users or the usage context is not a viable option. The proposed method brings together user-generated video content analysis techniques with role-playing techniques.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. Industrial Design
Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Sciences and Engineering, 2020
Optimal selection of possible chain market locations is still an ongoing interest. A significant ... more Optimal selection of possible chain market locations is still an ongoing interest. A significant number of newly founded markets are suffering from low profitability and cannibalism. Contrary to the traditional methods which are based on personal experience or instincts, quantitative methods which employ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and large data sets have proved to be more efficient to determine the most profitable and market locations. On the other hand, the larger the scale of the data set, the more prone it is to possible inconsistencies. In this study, we employ the largest available GIS data set for selection of chain market locations in İstanbul and carry out an extensive consistency test for the whole data set. A wide range of 23 attributes were incorporated into the analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to determine the optimal locations. The results were also confirmed by the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. The results show that 218 out of 7196 markets are already located high potential areas determined in the analysis and there is still a potential to establish new markets in 75 high potential areas according to our analysis.
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