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Item Unknown Inclusive design: developing students' knowledge and attitude through empathic modelling(Routledge, 2014-06-26) Altay, Burçak; Demirkan, HalimeTo enhance the function and quality of built environments, designers should consider all possible users in their design projects. Therefore, it is essential to incorporate inclusive design in the education of the design student. This study focuses on the educational objectives of and related learning activities in a course where inclusive design is one of the main subjects. Through empathic modelling, students' engagement with the course was enhanced. Within the course, students simulated disabled users while they experienced the campus environment using wheelchairs, crutches or blindfolds. Their experiences were reflected through descriptive texts and poster designs. Descriptive texts were analysed through developing themes and codes whereas posters were analysed through a content analysis method. Our findings showed that students developed their knowledge of inclusive design concerning the physical environment, the self and the social environment. They also developed immediate emotional responses and a positive attitude towards diversity and inclusion. Thus, empathic modelling supported the development of cognitive and affective learning domains of the novice designer, supporting inclusive design education.Item Unknown An interdisciplinary heuristic evaluation method for universal building design(Elsevier, 2009) Afacan, Yasemin; Erbug, C.This study highlights how heuristic evaluation as a usability evaluation method can feed into Current building design practice to conform to universal design principles. It provides a definition of universal usability that is applicable to an architectural design context. It takes the seven universal design principles as a set of heuristics and applies an iterative sequence of heuristic evaluation in a shopping mall, aiming to achieve a cost-effective evaluation process. The evaluation was composed of three consecutive sessions. First, five evaluators from different professions were interviewed regarding the construction drawings in terms of universal design principles. Then, each evaluator was asked to perform the predefined task scenarios. In subsequent interviews, the evaluators were asked to reanalyze the construction drawings. The results showed that heuristic evaluation could successfully integrate universal usability into Current building design practice in two ways: (i) it promoted an iterative evaluation process combined with multi-sessions rather than relying on one evaluator and on one evaluation session to find the maximum number of usability problems, and (ii) it highlighted the necessity of an interdisciplinary ad hoc committee regarding the heuristic abilities of each profession. A multi-session and interdisciplinary heuristic evaluation method can save both the project budget and the required time, while ensuring a reduced error rate for the universal usage of the built environments. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Item Open Access International mindedness: a revised conceptual framework(SAGE Publications, 2020) Metli, A.; Lane, Jennie F.This paper suggests a revised framework for explaining, developing and assessing international mindedness (IM). A review of the literature – that presents initiatives, challenges, and debates regarding IM – concludes with an overview of selected conceptual frameworks that have been used to develop a shared understanding of IM. When the authors applied one of these frameworks in a previous empirical study, they found during data analysis that some aspects of the framework’s key pillars played a more supportive role and that other components of IM needed further identification. As a result, this paper proposes a revision of the framework that features intercultural competence and global engagement, and identifies more specific components of these attributes, namely knowledge, skills, dispositions, and agency. The paper includes another review of the literature to emphasise how these components are important for the development, implementation, and assessment of international mindedness.Item Unknown Motion capture from single video sequence(2006) Demir, İbrahim3D human pose reconstruction is a popular research area since it can be used in various applications. Currently most of the methods work for constrained environments, where multi camera views are available and camera calibration is known, or a single camera view is available, which requires intensive user effort. However most of the currently available data do not satisfy these constraints, thus they cannot be processed by these algorithms. In this thesis a framework is proposed to reconstruct 3D pose of a human for animation from a sequence of single view video frames. The framework for pose construction starts with background estimation. Once the image background is estimated, the body silhouette is extracted by using image subtraction for each frame. Then the body silhouettes are automatically labeled by using a model-based approach. Finally, the 3D pose is constructed from the labeled human silhouette by assuming orthographic projection. The proposed approach does not require camera calibration. The proposed framework assumes that the input video has a static background and it has no significant perspective effects and the performer is in upright position.Item Unknown NEON-A script-based software framework for querying cellular pathways(2003) Nişancı, GürkanA cellular pathway can be defined briefly as a readable abstraction of events by human happening in the cell. With the PATIKA project, our aim was to model and store vast amount of cellular pathway data in a centralized database. A common problem of every scientific database is the risk of losing highly valuable hidden relations in the data. If appropriate query tools can not be provided to users for analyzing pathway data, these hidden relations can not be detected, which may infer new information. For that reason form-based visual query tools are built to provide querying facility that will be needed by PATIKA users. However, queries made with visual tools are not flexible enough to let users modify the existing queries or define new queries to execute on the PATIKA database. Also lack of powerful expression with these tools restricts the users while defining queries. In this thesis we propose an advanced query framework, NEON, which is developed for the PATIKA project for querying cellular pathways by using and extending a scripting language. It utilises a novel integration of the well-known Jython scripting language with the PATIKA project to provide a software environment where systems can be developed in a seamless mixture of Java and Jython. The framework is designed flexible enough to enable users analyze any part of the PATIKA database by writing their own query scripts. According to the tests done on the PATIKA system, querying through scripting methodology works fine on our pathway database and more effective analysis of cellular pathways through PATIKA seems to be facilitated