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Co-Design Management Framework for Community Empowerment Through Local Government - Design School Collaboration
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2021) Dogu, Derya Irkdas; Mengi, Onur; Deniz, Deniz; Kilincarslan, Ozgul
The notion of empowerment in the context of co-design is vastly studied in community architecture, community design, participatory planning, social innovation, and knowledge management. Despite the growing literature on co-design in various disciplines, there is a need for a comprehensive approach to co-design that explores different meanings and manifestations of communities that are under the influence of continuous change and transformation in urban areas. Our aim is to investigate (1) how the co-design process could be enhanced to foster community empowerment and (2) which design methods and tools could be explored to align with the paradigm shift towards a new model of co-design that aims to include biodesign, which sees nature as a co-creator and co-designer. This study proposes a new framework of community empowerment for a [re]-defined co-design management framework as an outcome of the collaboration between the local government and planning agencies and the Design School of Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. Methodological framework - derived from the Double Diamond diagram developed by the Design Council, illustrates a co-design system to integrate various actors; stakeholders (designers, local authorities, academics), community representatives (users, NGOs and civil initiatives, independent designers and artists). The findings address the opportunities to grasp the potential of co-design and generate new collaborations among actors including living organisms. This enables us to reconsider how co-design, as a knowledge management tool, can be utilized for empowering communities in urban areas, and to examine how it can be reframed for more livable urban environments. Through the construction of our framework, one of the crucial outcomes addresses the co-evolution that challenges the human-centered design paradigm and evolves it towards co-designing with living systems. Thus, the final framework becomes multi-scalar and multi-directional, and requires constant vertical and horizontal movement between, and within, various micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of knowledge interactions.
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A Context-Aware Architecture for the Management of Laundry Business Processes
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2013) Celikkan, Ufuk; Kurtel, Kaan
Business processes capture the experiences, insights and the knowledge of how a company conducts its business. Because this knowledge is embodied in business processes, it is important that this knowledge is managed effectively and efficiently by the business to reach its goals. While, business processes are essential in understanding how businesses operate, they also play a major role in how information technology is used in the implementation of information systems. Therefore, Business Process Management Systems have been developed to identify, understand, manage and coordinate business processes. The need for management software have had an effect on the role of software architects, who are becoming more involved in developing business process, in addition to their traditional role of describing the software. In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual Laundry Management System solution and architectural framework to monitor and autonomously manage the laundry process. The washing of laundry on an industrial scale has become highly automated, carried out by machines using sensors generating very detailed data. Data from these sensors allow the precise control of the laundry operation, often remotely. The combination of new machines with information technology has created a more efficient and cost effective process which requires software based on extensible architecture. Our proposal for such a system incorporates the features of a context aware architecture since the operations of a laundry exhibit the properties of a typical context-aware system. The laundry context data is classified and categorized as being primary and secondary. Primary context types are further categorized as location (where), identity (who), time (when) and activity (what). The context modeling is based on ontology, as this is the most expressive model. The system defines clear boundaries among data acquisition, data management and the business logic which are encapsulated in their respective layers. The system employs an inference and a workflow engine which conveys the overall status of the system to the user through a convenient user interface. The proposed architecture is based on Service Oriented Architecture. The business oriented functionality and business rules are captured as a service for to be used by the system components internally and by the customers externally. Moreover, the use of web services eliminates the tight coupling between subsystem components. Weak coupling supports flexibility and reusability. Using service-oriented architectures to integrate and unify various departments within a laundry business is also very straightforward. For instance, the logistics department can easily discover whether an item is ready to be shipped or the finance department can have very detailed report on the cost of the resources used to clean a particular garment.
Effects of Data Entry Tools on Health Professionals' Productivity: a Survey
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2012) Sahin, Yasar Guneri; Celikkan, Ufuk; Senuzun, Fisun
The use of electronic health records (EHR) has become an important issue for accurate medical diagnosis. However, there exist two main difficulties in the creation of electronic health records which make EHR systems hard to deploy: collection of EHR data is time consuming and it is an error prone process. Selection of the most appropriate methods and tools is, therefore, significant for data entry by the health care providers at the point of care in order to maximize productivity. We have conducted a questionnaire to record health care professionals' perceptions of data entry process and determine the functions that, in the view of the professionals', would facilitate the process. The questionnaire consists of 18 basic questions, posted on several web sites which host questionnaires, and was also mailed to health care professionals working in various hospitals over a period of 10 months. Totally, 533 medical care professionals from 29 different countries participated in the survey, of which 284 were M. D., 127 were nurses and the remainder was other medical professionals. The questions focused on the following: workload, performance, productivity, data entry methods that are currently in use or preferred, potential productivity increase from using technological tools in creating EHR and motivational factors for the acceptance of a convenient data entry tool. The results indicate that the health care professionals have an excessive workload, and the use of convenient data entry tools would contribute to increase in productivity. While the clear majority of participants involved in data entry use keyboard and mouse, most expressed a preference for more convenient methods, such as voice recognition or touch screen. Furthermore, physicians reported rarely spending more than 15 minutes for each consultation and conducting 21-30 examinations a day. The main motivation for creating an efficient direct data entry was therefore, to increase time for patient examination and improve accuracy of the diagnosis.
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Reconsidering the Knowledge Ecology in Fashion Industry: a Metaphorical Approach
(Acad Conferences Ltd, 2017) Mengi, Onur
Creative industries have seen a growing academic, in which the vast majority of the literature has concentrated on the physicality of the environment and their locational accumulations. Recent studies have intended to describe the existence of creative industry structures through economic and political perspectives, and physical planning. In contrast, there is much being interest in the question of how the inner dynamics and nature of creative industries operate and respond to the given knowledge environment. Nevertheless, the nature of their organizational structure is equally worth studying. In the present study, the ecosystem of creative industry structure is considered as being the creative-based and knowledge intense activities of the fashion industry. The study aims at investigating how the fashion industry operates as an ecosystem. Methodologically, the present study engages significant ecological characteristics widely used in the theoretical and applied fields of business ecosystems, ecosystem management and creative ecology, and attempts to integrate some of these perspectives into the fashion industry, through a formulation of an innovative metaphoric approach. The ecology approach is here based on the application of appropriate scientific methodologies, focused on levels of biological metaphor of organization that encompasses the essential processes and interactions among organizations, and their environment. In such a metaphorical approach, factors in changing ecological concepts, diversity, interaction, competition and evolution are employed and evaluated with insights from the particular ecosystem of fashion industry.

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