Aytac Aysun HSLU DFK

Aysun Aytac Aysun Aytac

Mitarbeiterin Forschungskoordination

Aytac Aysun HSLU DFK

Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst

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Nylsuisseplatz 1
6020 Emmenbrücke


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Biografie

Aysun has worked as a designer, design educator, and design researcher for over 10 years. Her research interests centre on design ethnography, particularly examining the interactions between humans and artefacts—especially in the realm of digital technologies. She explores how these interactions reflect our culture and shape our everyday lives. By employing research-through-design practices, speculative design and design fiction, she investigates our current and future relationships with technology, aiming to promote sustainability and foster a more equitable society.

She joined Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2020 as a design researcher. One of the major projects she worked on was the 4-year interdisciplinary SNSF project titled Voice Assistants - People, Experiences, Practices and Routines VA-PEPR. This project investigated the use and impact of voice assistants in everyday life within Swiss households through ethnography and design research. She actively participated in ethnographic data collection, qualitative data analysis (WP co-lead), the speculative design phase, and dissemination activities.

Aysun holds a bachelor's, master's and PhD degree in design.

Academic Employment
2020 -   ...       Research Associate - HSLU Design, Film and Art
2009 - 2017    Full-time Lecturer - Izmir Institute of Technology, Dep of Industrial Design
2006 - 2009    Part-time Lecturer - Izmir University of Economics, Dep of Industrial Design

Lecturing & Research Mobility
2017 - 2019     Guest Researcher - Forschungsschwerpunkt Kommunikationsdesign, HKB
2016 (3 mo)    Visiting Researcher - Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Zürich
2011 (3 days)  Visiting Lecturer (Erasmus Exchange Programme) - University of Ferrara, Italy

Education
2008 - 2015    PhD in Industrial Design, Istanbul Technical University
Thesis Title: Appropriation of the Bathroom in Everyday Life: Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Contemporary Bathroom and its Elements.
2002 - 2005    Master of Industrial Design, Izmir Institute of Technology
1997 - 2002    Bachelor of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University

Projekte

Forschungsprojekte

  • Accelerating the pursuit of the SDGs in Swiss design education: Design Action Labs.
  • IDN - Eco-Social Design for Urban Sustainability Transitions
  • Digitale Transformation der Gemeinde Emmen
  • VA-People, Experiences, Practices, Routines (VA-PEPR)
  • ITC – Umdenken, Umschalten, Umgestalten (Um3) Die digitale Transformation des Gemeindelebens

Publikationen und Präsentationen

Publikationen und Präsentationen - Buch/Katalog

  • Shorter, Mike; Aytac, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine; Rogers, Jon; Todisco, Aurelio; Toedtli, Beat; Minder, Bettina; Maier, Edith; Meissner, Jens O.; Baldauf, Matthias; Rickenmann, Melanie; Doerk, Michael; Murri, Michelle; Le, Minh-Nguyet; Pierri, Paola; Wolf, Patricia; Ulmer, Tom; Reimer, Ulrich; Klotz, Ute & Riss, Uwe (2024). VA-PEPR. Voice Assistants - People, Experiences, Practices And Routines (Workbook One). Lucerne: HSLU _ D&K.
  • Shorter, Mike; Aytac, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine; Rogers, Jon; Todisco, Aurelio; Toedtli, Beat; Minder, Bettina; Maier, Edith; Meissner, Jens O.; Baldauf, Matthias; Rickenmann, Melanie; Doerk, Michael; Murri, Michelle; Le, Minh-Nguyet; Pierri, Paola; Wolf, Patricia; Ulmer, Tom; Reimer, Ulrich; Klotz, Ute & Riss, Uwe (2024). VA-PEPR. Voice Assistants - People, Experiences, Practices And Routines (Workbook Two). Lucerne: HSLU _ D&K.

Publikationen und Präsentationen - Artikel, Rezension; peer reviewed

  • Aytaç, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine & Rogers, Jon (2024). Exploring the potential of Off-the-Shelf Tools as Digital Probes: Appropriation of a Mobile Diary App. Design Issues, 40 (3): 18–36. Design Issues, 40(3), 18-36.
  • Klotz, Ute; Aytaç, Aysun; Minder Schade, Bettina; Todisco, Aurelio; Riss, Uwe V.; Tödtli, Beat; Ulmer, Tom & Junginger, Sabine (2024). Reflections on Using a Diary App to Conduct a Diary Study to Assess Emergent Technologies in Private Households. Anwendungen und Konzepte der Wirtschaftsinformatik (AKWI), (19), 64-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.akwi.2024.4539
  • Pierri, Paola; Aytaç, Aysun; Rogers, Jon; Shorter, Mike & Junginger, Sabine (2023). Everyday Data and Everyday Publics. Implications for Design and for Policy-making: Designing Platform Technology and Policy Simultaneously. A CHI’23 workshop,
  • Shorter, Mike; Minder, Bettina; Rogers, Jon; Baldauf, Matthias; Todisco, Aurelio; Junginger, Sabine; Aytaç, Aysun & Wolf, Patricia (2022). Materialising the Immaterial: Provotyping to Explore Voice Assistant Complexities. DIS '22 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing 2022, 2022, 1512-1524. doi: 10.1145/3532106.3533519
  • Aytac, Aysun & Timur Öğüt, Şebnem (2017). Banyo pratikleri: Gündelik hayat ve tasarım perspektifinden bir inceleme (Translated title; Bathroom Practices: An Analysis from Everyday Life and Design Perspectives). UTAK 2016 National Design Research Conference Proceedings, 475-492.
  • Aytac, Aysun & Timur Öğüt, Şebnem (2015). Türkiye’de modern banyonun değişimi: Dergi reklamları üzerinden bir değerlendirme (Translated title; The Change of Modern Bathroom in Turkey: An Evaluation through Magazine Advertisements). Journal of Yaşar University, (10/37), 6449-6464.
  • Aytac, Aysun (2014). Local/global antagonisms: Cultural analysis of contemporary bathroom and its elements in Turkey. Cumulus Working Papers Aveiro - What's On: Cultural Diversity, Social Engagement and Shifting Education Conference Proceedings, (32/14), 31-37.
  • Dilek, Özgün & Aytac, Aysun (2012). Anlamı değişen bir nesne: Nikâh şekeri (Translated title; A Semantic Shift: Wedding Favours). Deciphering the Object. Turkish Design History Society Conference Proceedings, 157-169.

Publikationen und Präsentationen - Sonstige Publikationsformate

  • Aytaç, Aysun; Junginer, Sabine; Murri, Michelle; Rickenmann, Melanie; Rogers, Jon; Shorter, Mike & Todisco, Aurelio (05.12.2024). [Surnames in alphabetical order]. VA-PEPR Provotypes [Interactive Exhibition]. Swiss Design Network Symposium: Design Research, ÉCAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Shorter, Mike; Rickenmann, Melanie; Aytaç, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine; Murri, Michelle & Le, Minh-Nguyet (08.03.2024). VA-PEPR Provotypes and Voice Matters [Interactive Exhibition]. Talking AI Public Event, HSLU DFK, Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Shorter, Mike; Rickenmann, Melanie; Rogers, Jon; Aytaç, Aysun; Todisco, Aurelio & Junginger, Sabine (23.09.2023). Voice Matters [Interactive Exhibition]. Digital Design Weekend 23, London Design Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
  • Shorter, Mike; Rogers, Jon; Junginger, Sabine; Aytaç, Aysun; Todisco, Aurelio & Pierri, Paola (05.06.2023). Money Talks [Interactive Exhibition]. re:publica 23, Berlin, Germany.
  • Shorter, Mike; Aytaç, Aysun & Todisco, Aurelio (28.02.2023). Speculating Voice Assistant Futures [Workshop]. IxD23 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Shorter, Mike; Rogers, Jon; LewJong, E-M; Aytaç, Aysun; Todisco, Aurelio; Toedtli, Beat & Meissner, Jens O. (09.06.2022). Speak up! Exploring decentralised voice assistant futures through speculative design [Workshop]. re:publica 22, Berlin, Germany.
  • Aytac, Aysun & Er, Ozlem (22.06.2020). Design Research in Turkey and Beyond: Live Interview with Prof. Dr. Özlem Er.

Publikationen und Präsentationen - Präsentation (Tagungsbeitrag/Referat/Vortrag)

  • Aytaç, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine; Murri, Michelle; Rickenmann, Melanie; Rogers, Jon; Shorter, Mike & Todisco, Aurelio (04.12.2024). [Surnames in alphabetical order]. Making the Invisible Visible through Design. Swiss Design Network Symposium: Design Research, ÉCAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Aytaç, Aysun & Bayraktaroğlu, Serkan (10.07.2024). What Would it Take to Take Care? Speculating our Relationships with Products for Future Repair Scenarios. By Design and By Disaster Conference: Power in Transformation., BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Schlanders-Silandro, Italy.
  • Aytac, Aysun & Meissner, Jens O. (07.03.2024). Conducting in-home studies involving new technologies. VA-PEPR: Talking AI, HSLU - School of Design, Film & Art.
  • Aytaç, Aysun; Junginger, Sabine & Kleczka, Katharina (15.06.2022). Rethinking the Home Office as a Co-Working Space: New Directions for Research and Practice. EURAM 2022: Leading Digital Transformation, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Meissner, Jens O.; Minder, Bettina; Klotz, Ute; Todisco, Aurelio; Murri, Michelle; Junginger, Sabine; Wolf, Patricia; Aytac, Aysun; Baldauf, Matthias; Tödtli, Beat; Rogers, Jon; Shorter, Mike; Doerk, Michael & Ulmer, Tom (15.06.2022). Voice Assistant Use: Challenges for the Home Office Work Context. EURAM 2022: Leading the Digital Transformation, Zürich.
  • Aytaç, Aysun & Junginger, Sabine (02.03.2022). When Work Life and Everyday Life Interact at Home. Interaction 22 Conference (IxDA), Online.
  • Aytaç, Aysun (01.06.2021). Power to the People: Using Mobile Diary Apps to Collect Ethnographic Data. Online Design Seminar Series, Department of Industrial Design, Izmir Institute of Technology.
  • Velasco, Alex; Aytac, Aysun; Irkdas, Derya & Gencol, Hakan (14.03.2008). A Thick Industrial Design Studio Curriculum. 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Atlanta: Georgia Institute of Technology.