Modaya uygun giyilebilir teknolojilere özel katılımcı tasarım modelinin özelliklerinin belirlenmesi

The significance of fashion for designing wearable technologies have been appreciated by recent studies. Designing fashionable wearable technologies requires a collaboration between various stakeholders from fashion and technology industries. However, as fashion and technology are known to represent two distinct fields, realizing such a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary collaboration is a challenging endeavor. To help practitioners and researchers overcome this challenge, this thesis investigates, and documents existing product development and participatory design models used in fashion, textile industries and information technologies. Moreover, through data gathered from a literature review, 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with experts from fashion and technology industries, and observations based on three sessions of participatory design workshops, it identifies the specifications of a participatory design model for designing fashionable wearable technologies while cultivating existing ones.