With support from the METU Technopolis and sponsored by industry and NGOs, METU Design Factory provides training, equipment and infrastructure to interdisciplinary student teams for collaborative design projects.
IDS brings students from different disciplines together in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative products.
IDS-4 will be conducted as an elective course (ID403 Collaborative Design) offered to all departments in 2016 Fall semester.
During Interdisciplinary Design Studio 4, teams composed of graduate and undergraduate students from different disciplines developed innovative solutions for the problem areas proposed by firms and NGOs. Throughout IDS-4, design processes were conducted in accordance with workshops including design thinking techniques, seminars and knowledge and experience sharing of the faculty members from different disciplines.
Özlem Çavuş • Özge Danacı • Denizcan İbrikçi • Aslı Ergin • Enes Aldemir • Kevser Çakmak
TCON is an application that makes the vehicles special to the driver and passengers at the same time. After downloading to the mobile phone, TCON can automatically connect with the vehicle and combine the features, roads and passengers in common in three main areas: private music playback, news reading and space recommendation.
Ramin Rasulzade • Nilay Nida Can • Yao Mingjian • İpek Öztürk • Oğuz Özdemir • Kübra Sena Şimşek • Melike Aydınlılar
The aim of Rockids is to tell the children of 6 to 10 years of the atmospheric flight experience in an engaging, instructive and amusing way. The design consists of 3 basic parts: a book, a physical toy, and an application to be used by this toy. The basics of flying in the book are told through an interactive story to children. Every chapter in the book is directed at the child’s play and practice so that the child can experience the principle described.
Hasan Anıl Devrimsel • Sena Bozkurt • Uzay Kaş • Enes Coşkun • Burcu Leblebicier Çetin • Deniz Özkan
The goal of the Utepils group is to cool the liquid in the bottle before making any changes to the bottle it is in. To this end, the high pressure CO2 gas has to be vented through a small hole in the tube it is in and the liquid inside the tube is cooled. In this easy-to-use device, the coolant is removed from the package and activated by pressing the button on the top of the tool when it is placed inside the bottle.
Melek Deniz Tarhan • Özüm Hazal Özgenç • Seren Özok • Ayşe Kaplan • Deniz Özabat
In this project, which targets SMEs in the manufacturing industry employing 50 or more employees, a phone application called K.O.B.İ (Alpha) was developed by determining the uncertainties that led to the inefficiency of SMEs. In the application that can be defined as “serious game”, it is aimed to increase awareness in this regard.
On 21-22 October 2016, METU Teknokent’s incubation companies were educated on design thinking.
Participants had the opportunity to practice six basic phases of design thinking: understanding, observation, perspective development, idea development, model development and testing.
Participants who redefined the problem identified in the training through face-to-face interview with the users, prototyped the solutions they developed.
During Interdisciplinary Design Studio 3, teams composed of graduate and undergraduate students from different disciplines developed innovative solutions for the problem areas proposed by firms and NGOs. Throughout IDS-3, design processes were conducted in accordance with workshops including design thinking techniques, seminars and knowledge and experience sharing of the faculty members from different disciplines.
Aygen Savaş • Ekin Sancak • Hasan Soycan • İsmail Melik Taş • Gizem Yetiş • Hakan Yıldız • Hüsnü Şener
The Artifex group has focused on the aesthetics of the electric lines, which until now have only been seen as a infrastructure problem. With this project, a parametric design has been proposed, stabilizing the values of the legislation,
reducing the electromagnetic field generated by the conductor wires, increasing the night visibility of the warning spheres, and providing a new aesthetic understanding of the cityscapes.
Abdullah Yusuf Tatlı • Elif Nur Bilir • İnci Tuğçe Üçkök • Lilyana Yazirlıoğlu • Meltem Düzgün
Because of the perception that engineering is a male profession, women are not adequately represented in engineering. Our main goal as the BreakEng group is to break social stereotypes about the engineering profession in high school students. For this purpose, a game proposal has been introduced in which the students can learn the engineering profession in an interactive way to bring up the field and role models for each class and student.
Mahmut Burak Atasever • Duygu Vatan • Özcan Keklik • Esra Reis • Mehmet Alper Kuyumcu • Zeynep Yılmaz
In order to make a “safer tractor design” by the team of İmece, a solution to tractor overturns has been developed and a moving weight system consisting of information, guidance and intervention steps has been developed. With this
project, a system consists of mechanical and social aspects has been provided while aiming of raising awareness of the farmer.
Alperen Tüğen • Aysun Bolat • Bahar Aydemir • Buğrahan Gülcüler • Sezin Sarıca • Hüseyin Uğur Genç • Zeynep Ece Şahin
The MotusMagnus group presented a “smart vest” solution proposal, in the sense that most of the community has a dysfunction due to a desk work. This vest seeks to create a collective culture in smart casual offices, thanks to a
mobile application that can be used together.
Gökhan Çakal • Ege Çakaloz • Mert Ozan Katipoğlu • Oğuz Atıcı • Tuğba Purtul
Flourish is an interactive mobile application aims to raise awareness about the harms of smoking for children and parents while supporting the person who wants to quit smoking during the most difficult first three weeks of quiting process with family and relative support.
With participants from different disciplines, the second Interdisciplinary Design Studio (IDS-2), that is organized by METU Design Factory with support from METU Technopolis and is sponsored by industry and NGOs, started on January 27th, 2016.
We received 120 applications and 38 students were accepted to the IDS-2. With the mentorship of METU DF faculty and industry partners, we introduce the principles of interdisciplinary collaborative work to students in regards to design studies.
In the eight-week long IDS-2, interdisciplinary student teams will address the themes and/or problems identified by our industry partners. They are expected to develop ideas, designs, and even prototypes. Each team’s work is guided by two academic and one industry mentor. Final products will be presented at a campus-wide ceremony.
Yaşar Berk Arı – Merve Civelek – Oğuzhan Demirdöğen – Emel Erdal – Baturalp Goncagül – Toghrul Karimli – Merve Yılmaz – Hakan Yılmazer
One of the biggest problems of armored vehicles is that they cannot pass easily and without difficulty. As the ATOK Group, our ideas inspired by nature are transformed into a system design in which armored vehicles can easily bypass ditches. Sensors placed in the car alert the system against any obstacle, allowing the vehicle to overcome obstacles easily.
Mehmet Akif Akkuş – Selcen Kökçü Çetin – Anıl Erdal – Pelin Göçmen – Gözde Nargile – Bayram Anıl Öztürk
The most common problems during shower cleaning are tilting, getting wet and spending a lot of time and effort. A cleaning system has been developed which can automatically control shower traps to minimize these problems. Automatic cleaning and interactive use of the product is the main working principle.
Ece Dinçer – Mine Ertok – Osman Kaan Karagöz – Hakan Mert – Merve Okkalı – Sedef Üstün
This project focused on astronauts’ problem of sleeping in the space station. Providing a sense of sleep and an ergonomic bed design like the rest of the world are factors that increase the working efficiency of astronauts. To achieve this, an artificial gravity was created in the space station so that astronauts can have the feeling of lying on the bed.
Cem Dedekargınoğlu – Özge Güven – Ayşenur Tonbaz – Çağrı Yalçın
The relationship between local people and migrants with asylum seekers in Turkey is weakened day by day. The Harmony group, believing that this relationship can be solved by establishing “empathy”, has designed an “empathy place” that reflects the difficulties experienced by them. Due to its modularity and easy usability, it is a space feature that can be moved everywhere and reach more people.
Meltem Atay – Özgür Baskın – Esra Cantürk – İdil Kara – İpek Koçak – Anıl Kürkçü – Birnur Şahin
PufferPi is a fun toy that measures and evaluates the movement of the children having juvenile idiopathic arthritis. It reminds the exercise time while interacting with the child in audio and light feedback. By doing so, it allows you to make emotional connections with your child.
JeanPiere Demir – Çiğdem Demir – Berkin Nergis – Burhan Ölmez – Selin Özgür – Sercan Pekel – Buse Subaşı – İlkan Yıldırım
UXI is a module and system solution that solves the problem of more reliable, more valuable, and more user experience information that UX Labs in the research process is working on the rising trend of the user experience in recent years. The module works in the Pi Hola teaches the product to the user of the washing machine, and allows for more reliable and faster user experience research.
