Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Endüstriyel Tasarım Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Öğrenci: GÜZİN ŞEN
Danışman: BAHAR ŞENER PEDGLEY
Özet:Mobile listening can be defined as an evolved form of listening whose history draws back to the introduction of Sony Walkman, which upgraded music players with both privacy and portability. This thesis underlines the challenge of performing such private activity in a shared environment with many people and audio-visual stimuli around. This 'journey' with music becomes more challenging with the interfaces confined into tiny buttons and screens that are scaled down for the sake of portability of the device. Hence, this thesis explores the potentials of embodied interactive technologies to enhance the way users interact with mobile listening media by dealing with the context both as a challenge and an inspiration. This thesis discusses the relationship between context and user experience. It also draws upon the concept of embodiment which derives from users' physical relationships with the context as aesthetics of interaction does. Then it elaborates different forms of embodied interaction such as tangible, organic, and gestural interfaces. The fieldwork uncovers mobile listeners' concerns related with user-user, product-product and user-product interactions through Study 1 and Study 2 'Telling about and Living in the Journey' which are conducted as a user journey mapping session and a literal journey with music within the city. With Study 3 'Dreaming about the Journey' it explores the potentials of the embodied elements and actions within the context by analyzing participants' utilization of daily objects and gestures for controlling music in a generative session. This way the thesis shows how aesthetics of interactions can be achieved through embodiment of controls while dealing with the challenges of the context at the same time.