Technology & Disabling Environment



Place : Kule (Tower) 2. Floor

Date : 07.11.2018

Time : 17:30 – 19:30

Speakers : Doğa Çorlu, Zeynep Yıldız, Asım Evren Yantaç

Language : Turkish

Content:

This seminar aims at creating awareness on disabling environments and informing the audience about how technology can make these environments more inclusive and usable. Throughout the seminar, the factors that make an environment disabling and overwhelming will be discussed based on real life situations. The role of technology and design in diminishing these factors will be explained and existing and conceptual technological solutions will be presented. Individuals’ varying physical and cognitive needs in varying environments will be discussed on a wide spectrum and our daily lives will be revisited from the perspective of how environments disable us.

Asım Evren Yantaç

Finishing his PhD in Interaction Design, he studied his Post Doc studies in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on the topic of employing mixed reality technologies for sensory normalization of individuals with autism. He works as a research faculty at Media and Visual Arts Department and Research Center for Creative Industries at Koç University, since 2013, where he runs the Happern Research Group, that focuses on exploratory research studies on user experience design, interaction and information design and mediated reality technologies.

Zeynep Yıldız

After graduating psychology and Media & Visual Arts majors from Koç University, Yıldız started her postgraduate studies in Research Center for Creative Industries at Koç University. Her research interests are accessibility, universal design and she continues her studies about those topics.

Doğa Çorlu

Doğa Çorlu is a PhD candidate in interaction design in Design, Technology and Society at Koç University and works as a research and teaching assistant in Happern Research Group. Her research focuses on mediating neurodiverse groups’ experiences in disabling situations. She volunteers for designing services for autistic individuals across digital and public platforms in collaboration with several autism foundations. She holds a BA in Interaction Design from YTU, Türkiye.