Browsing by Author "Dogan, Fehmi"

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Blind Persons Taking Photos
(Springer Heidelberg, 2018) Kan Kılıç, Didem; Dogan, Fehmi
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Children in Urban Environments: a Case Study From a Dense Neighbourhood in Izmir-Turkey
(Yildiz Technical Univ, Fac Architecture, 2022) Dikmen Güleryüz, Oylum; Dogan, Fehmi; Kasali, Altug
The aim of this study is to understand children's engagement with their urban outdoor environments in Izmir-Turkey, a city with a high urbanisation rate, and to explore the factors that affect their outdoor preferences outside of their school time. The study consists of a field study conducted in a densely populated middle-income neighbourhood. Participants are fourth-grade children from a state-run primary school aged 9-11 years (n=44) and their parents (n=40). The study followed a multi-methodological approach, employing questionnaires, drawing and story writing tasks as data collection methods. Results of the study showed the strong tendency to prefer outdoors during their free time even when their neighbourhood is a high-density urban settlement with limited opportunities for outdoor activities. In the studied neighbourhood, most of the participants mentioned the schoolyard over other locations as their preferred place fin- outdoor play. Other than the schoolyard, the children mainly reported familiar places in their neighbourhoods, close to their local environments which were also depicted in their drawings and described in their stories. From the perspectives of urban designers and policy-makers, the findings of the study highlight aspects to be concerned about opportunities for outdoor play in high-density and urbanised central neighbourhoods.
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Citation - Scopus: 3
Nonvisual Aspects of Spatial Knowledge: Wayfinding Behavior of Blind Persons in Lisbon
(Wiley, 2020) Kan Kılıç, Didem; Dogan, Fehmi; Duarte, Emilia; Kan-Kilic, Didem
Blind individuals' wayfinding performance in complex urban environments is a complex phenomenon. This study investigates the wayfinding strategies of congenitally blind individuals in an urban context. The aim of the study was to assess the extent to which the environmental auditory cues are of primary importance for their wayfinding strategies. The study was conducted in Lisbon, Portugal. Results suggest that auditory information was the most used environmental cue and that a feeling of enclosure is the most important environmental feature during wayfinding. These results corroborate previous findings suggesting that increased familiarity with the environment results in more efficient wayfinding strategies, and that lack of environmental auditory cues could be compensated by a robust cognitive map. The study highlights multidimensional sensory experiences of urban environments and nonvisual aspects of spatial perception.
Reflection on Designing: Metacognitive Interventions to Enhance Metacognitive Awareness, Motivation, and Performance in Design Learning
(Springer, 2025) Yazici, Gizem; Dogan, Fehmi
Design education involves ill-defined problem-solving that demands both creativity and self-regulation. While metacognitive awareness significantly enhances learning outcomes and motivation, there is limited empirical evidence on how to systematically foster this skill in design studios. This study aims to investigate whether metacognitive interventions increase architecture students' metacognitive awareness levels, academic goal orientations, and design course success. In a quasi-experimental design, 84 third-year architecture students were divided into experimental (n = 58) and control (n = 26) groups. Pre-post-test data were collected using the MAI and AGOQ scales. Three structured interventions were implemented in the experimental group over six weeks. In the students who received the interventions, significant increases were observed in metacognitive awareness, mastery-performance goal orientation, and design course grades. In students with high awareness, mastery orientation, metacognitive awareness, and design course grades increased significantly, while in students with low awareness, metacognitive awareness and performance orientation increased. Pretest MAI and AGOQ scores accounted for 72.8% of the variance in grades, with MAI showing the strongest positive influence. Learning and proving orientations were moderately and positively correlated to grades, while avoidance orientation showed a moderate negative correlation. Metacognitive interventions enhance learning outcomes in design education by supporting metacognition and motivation.
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Citation - Scopus: 8
Way-Finding Strategies of Blind Persons in Urban Scale
(Wiley, 2017) Kan Kılıç, Didem; Dogan, Fehmi
The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensory inputs have an impact on the way-finding strategies of blind people and to identify these impacts, where applicable. We specifically investigated how blind people use their senses to compensate for the lack of visual information and how the priority of senses changes according to the urban context. The participants of the study consisted of nine congenitally blind individuals and the study took place in two urban settings: a dense urban district, Kemeralti district in zmir; and an urban park, the zmir Fair Park. During the learning phase, a first trial along the selected routes was conducted for each participant individually along with one of the researchers. In the test phase, the participants were requested to re-walk the route and verbally report the environmental cues they attended to. The participants' verbal reports were recorded and transcripts of the recordings were coded according to the environmental sensory inputs. In addition, the short-term memory of each participant was also evaluated. The results show that the characteristics of the urban environment seem to have an impact on way-finding strategies of blind individuals. It was found that the sound of the city and the echo from the environment are the most important factors for blind participants in the dense urban environment. Environmental boundaries provided echoes and gave a sense of enclosure that helped them orient themselves, whereas, in the park environment, the sense of enclosure was not enhanced due to a lack of boundaries in the environment.