Obje tabanlı akıl danışma-tavsiye iletişimi tasarımına ilham kaynağı olarak Türk kahve falı

This dissertation is a collection of papers, written as a result of the studies of an original and completed doctoral research that examined Turkish coffee fortune-telling as an inspiration for designing object-mediated advice interactions. Several studies have been made on advice encounters supported by tabletop displays, yet the potential of handheld devices in enhancing advice interaction still remains open to research. As an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, we chose Turkish coffee fortune-telling, as it is a centuries-old practice of giving advice that is based on the use of a cup and saucer. We organized sessions with 34 fortune-tellers and analyzed their verbal and nonverbal interaction during advice instances. Our analysis resulted in 7 preliminary design considerations. To see how these considerations would be employed in practice, we organized a participatory design workshop which yielded 6 handheld device concepts that proposed stimulating mechanisms for advice interaction (Figure 1, Section 4: Paper A). Following these first studies, we turned to our cup reading recordings to focus on the fortune-tellers' engagement with the particular form factor of the cup (Figure 1, Section 5: Paper B). Although mugs are familiar social artefacts, there has not been sufficient research on what kind of affordances mugs could offer as tangible interfaces and how people might use them in face-to-face social settings. In this regard, our aim was to identify the characteristics related to the interaction with handheld cylindrical objects as it would also create a basis for an augmented mug prototype that has a cylindrical form factor. Our analysis yielded 11 characteristics reflecting user behavior with cups. A follow-up cross-cultural study served as a first step for understanding the potential generalizability of these findings. Our main contribution in these studies consists of the characteristics we derived and the related potential interaction techniques we discuss for augmented mugs with an inner display. We also contextualize our findings by two scenarios in which the mug is used as a tangible interface in social interaction settings. Inspired by our characteristics, and the previous studies, we prototyped an augmented mug, the Glance Mug, to support advice-givers in performing opportunistics search in a subtle manner during meetings (Figure 1, Section 6: Paper C]. We organized 15 pairs of one-to-one advising meetings between students to see the mug in action and gather user reflections. The user study revealed that the mug has the potential for supporting instant search and affords sufficient subtlety to conceal user actions. Yet, it provoked some anxiety for the users in maintaining eye contact with their partners. Our main contributions are the context-aware mug concept tested in a real-life setting and the analysis through Hornecker and Buur's Tangible Interaction Framework that discusses its design space, and its impact on the users and social interaction.