On My Motivations and My Initial Research Progress — Before coming to Carnegie Mellon to pursue a course in interaction design, in my master’s at METU Dept. of Industrial Design, I’ve started to explore the answers to a question that I found very important in the context of “smart” physical products. While smartness is a subjective term, the question…

A Living Thesis Proposal — I submitted this thesis proposal to our thesis coordinator originally in May 2017 and since that time, I’m constantly revising my research territory and questions. You will be able to find the latest revisions to my thesis proposal in the changelog section. Thanks for stopping by! If you are interested in…

Vocal Conversational Agents — This article is a written form of my pecha-kucha presentation for our Interaction & Service Design Concepts: Principles, Perspectives & Practices 2016 class, which was run by Molly W Steenson at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design. You can also read the full paper. “Hello, World!” is the first program…

Vocal Conversational Agents — This article is a written as a full paper for our Interaction & Service Design Concepts: Principles, Perspectives & Practices 2016 class, which was run by Molly W Steenson at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design. You can also read the short version. Hello, World! “Hello, World!” is the first program that…

Video Composing with Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects for Hololens Interaction Concept Visualization — One of the challenging parts for presenting mixed reality concepts is the storytelling via visualizing proposed interaction scenarios. In Moment, we tackled this challenge by creating our own workflow for visualizing 3D MR UI as well as other media assets to be shown in our concept video. Although it is…

In addition to our hands-on research, we have also started to explore the existing research on our design territory. Our secondary research involves but not limited to academic research papers from the fields such as human-computer interaction, design, sociology, and geriatrics. …

Along with out-of-college stakeholders, we also interviewed two professors at School of Design, who worked on the domain of Aging in Place. Our interviews with Bruce Hanington and Mark Baskinger provided us a mixture of academic/real-world insights, which sat between the fields of industrial design and psychology. Interview at the Moon Room: Mark Baskinger To get insights…

At first, everything was dumb. We, humans, created a world for ourselves on planet earth. We have interacted with our physical environment, have manipulated it, and we finally have transformed it…It is the version 2016 of our world and it is still continuing to develop. From the very beginning of…

Many academics from fields such as architecture, city planning and design insist on that the one goal of many should be tackling one of specific kind of problem. These problems are called wicked problems. They are called wicked for some reasons. Quoting from the work of Rittel and Webber on…