Tasarım Eğitiminde Ergonomi: Elektrik Süpürgesi Örneği

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Erbuğ, Çiğdem
Yolal, Ceren

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With the enactment of laws relating to consumer protection, the issues of user friendly designs and the necessity for better understanding and use of ergonomics have raised considerable debate between the designers and the economists. Within the interdisciplinary nature of the design process, ergonomics science supplies the necessary information relating to the interaction among the user, the product and the environment. Ergonomics being involved in both research and application is supported by input from other disciplines such as psychology, physiology, sociology ere. The respectively interdisciplinary natures of the design process and ergonomics makes the co-operation task much harder. The study of the natures of design and ergonomics along with the existing ergonomics data, have lead to the conclusion for the necessity of initiating the designer during the formal education process, on the methods of collecting data regarding user-product relationship, and the evaluation and integration of the data for user friendly design. It is not realistic to propose a prototype ergonomics training model, considering the existence of differing approaches among the institutions undertaking design education. However, the need is heavily emphasised for educating the design student on the product-user relationship, the nature of information required, the system and timing of integration of the information into the design process which would also contribute to the future development of designer-ergonomist collaboration. The 'Vacuum Cleaner' project, carried out within the ergonomics course at the Industrial Design Department of METU, has resulted in the development of user-friendly product through utilising ergonomic data gathering methods and the application of basic user testing techniques. The object of this student project is to demonstrate the research and application stages and the evolution of the final product within this process. The aim is to create the awareness on the student to analyse the problems not as foreseen by himself but how they are seen by the user. This approach in essence brings the student face to face with the objectivity of evaluating scientific data, rather then relyingsolely and completely on personal intuitions.

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Tasarım, Endüstri ürünleri, Tasarım eğilimi, Ergonomi

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1993/cilt13/sayi_1_2/67-76.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51159

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ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

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Ç. Erbuğ and C. Yolal, “Tasarım Eğitiminde Ergonomi: Elektrik Süpürgesi Örneği,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 13, no. 1-2, pp. 67–76, 1993, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1993/cilt13/sayi_1_2/67-76.pdf.