Isil Oygur Ilhan

Isil Oygur is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design. She holds a Ph.D. from Washington State University and a master’s from Istanbul Technical University. She has experience developing family-centered service design solutions and physical and digital interactions. Her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on design anthropology, design for health and wellbeing, family-centered design, child-computer interaction, and scholarship of teaching and learning in design. She not only develops design as an outcome but also uses design as a tool in the research process for learning with and from users.

PhD: Washington State University Pullman, WA, 2012 (Individual Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program)

MSc: Istanbul Technical University Turkey, 2006 (Industrial Design)

BID: Middle East Technical University Turkey, 2003 (Industrial Design)

Design anthropology, service design, design for health and wellbeing, family-centered design, child-computer interaction, scholarship of teaching and learning

Peer Reviewed Publications

Oygur I.; Gocer, O. & Karahan E.E.  (2022). Hybrid Workplace: Activity-based Office Design in a Post-pandemic Era. Journal of Interior Design, 47 (3) , 3-10More Information

Oygur, I., Su, Z., Epstein, D.A. & Chen, Y.  (2021). The Lived Experience of Child-Owned Wearables: Comparing Children’s and Parents’ Perspectives on Activity Tracking. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), Yokohama, Japan, May 8–13. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pagesMore Information

Oygur I. & Ulkebas S.D.  (2022). Expertise Comparison among Product Design Students: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 32, 2279-2296More Information

Oygur, I.; Epstein, D.A. & Chen, Y.  (2020). Raising the Responsible Child: CollaborativeWork in the Use of Activity Trackers for Children. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4 (CSCW2) , 157:1-157:23More Information

Kaygan, P.; Ilhan, A.O. & Oygur, I.  (2020). Change in Industrial Designers’ Jobs: The Case of Turkey, 1984-2018. The Design Journal, 23 (6) , 821-841More Information

Oygur, I. & Thompson, J.A.A.  (2019). Intra-Organizational User-Centered Design Practices: The Impact of Design Research Departments at Design Consultancies. Creativity and Innovation Management, 29 (1) , 112-127More Information

Gocer, O.; Gocer, K.; Ergoz Karahan E. & Oygur, I.  (2018). Exploring Mobility & Workplace Choice in a Flexible Office through Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Ergonomics, 61 (2) , 226-242More Information

Oygur, I. & Ulkebas, S.D.  (2018). Students’ Product Perception: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK, September 6-7

Dimli Oraklibel, R.; Ulkebas, S.D. & Oygur, I.  (2018). Creative Problem-Solving Assessment and Product Design Education. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK, September 6-7

Oygur, I.  (2018). The Machineries of User Knowledge Production. Design Studies, 54, 23-49More Information

Oygur, I. & Ulkebas, S.D.  (2017). Facebook as a Boundary Object in Industrial Design Studio: A SoTL Study. The Design Journal, 20 (sup1) , S1037-S1047More Information

Oygur, I.  (2017). User, Research, and Practice. Learning from Design Consultancies. The Design Journal, 20 (sup1) , S4621-S4631More Information

Oygur, I. & McCoy, J.M.  (2011). User: Inspiration or Constraint? . Journal of Interior Design, 36 (3) , 1-13More Information

Oygur, I.  (2010). Search for Rigor in Design Research: An Analysis of Qualitative User Research Literature. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design and Emotion, Chicago, IL, October 4-7, 1-12

Oygur, I. & Blossom, N.  (2010). Design and the User Experience: The Turkish Context. Design Issues, 26 (4) , 72-84More Information

Wang, D. & Oygur, I.  (2010). A Heuristic Structure for Collaborative Design. Design Journal, 13 (3) , 355-372More Information

Oygur, I. & Karapars, Z.  (2019). Industrial Design Education in the Age of Digital Products. The Design Journal, 22 (sup1) , 1973-1982More Information

Oygur, I.  (2014). Transforming User Information into User Knowledge: A Multiple Case Study. Proceedings of Design Research Society 2014 Conference, Umea, Sweden, June 16-19

Blossom, N., Oygur, I. & Payne-Tofte, E.  (2013). Methodological Foundations of Design Pedagogy: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Design. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Volume 2, Oslo, Norway, May 14-17, 944-959

Oygur, I., Chen, Y., and A. Epstein, D.  (2024). Analyzing User Experience with a Smart Product-Service System: Children-Owned Wearables. Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USAMore Information

Oygur, I., Ilhan, A. O., Trauth, B. & Vogel, C. M.  (2023). Pedagogical Implications of Service Design for Industrial Design Education: Current Claims and Future Directions. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-8.

Oygur, I., Chen, Y. & Epstein, D. A.  (2023). Co-Designing for the Co-Use of Child-Owned Wearables. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC'23), Chicago, IL, USA, June 19–23. ACM, New York, NY, USAMore Information

Oygür Ilhan I.; Tikac S.  (2024). Mapping food tracking practices for a broader user base: learning from non-trackers across age group. Journal of Design Research, 21 (3-4) , 262-279More Information

Oygur Ilhan I.; Ilhan A.; Trauth B.; Vogel C.  (2023). Pedagogical Implications of Service Design for Industrial Design Education: Current Claims and Future Directions. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education Responsible Innovation for Global Co Habitation E and Pde 2023, 181-186

Baykal G.E.; Leylekoglu A.; Sezer C.B.; Oygür I.  (2022). Studying Children's Manipulative Gestures in Spatial Puzzle Play with VR Hand Tracking: Analysis of . Proceedings Sui 2022 ACM Conference on Spatial User InteractionMore Information

Oygur I.; Orthel B.D.  (2015). Connecting the scholarship of teaching and learning to the discipline of interior design. Handbook of Interior Design, 446-464More Information

Book Chapter

Oygur, I., Gocer, O. & Ergoz Karahan, E. (2020). User Experience within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach. In Research Methods for Interior Design: Applying Interiority. (pp. 32-42). New York, NY, Routledge

Oygur, I. & Orthel, B.D. (2014). Connecting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to the Discipline of Interior Design. In The Handbook of Interior Design. (pp. 446-464). Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Blackwell