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Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 4Creating Awareness of Sleep-Wake Hours by Gamification(Springer Verlag, 2016) Ilhan,E.; Sener,B.; Hacihabiboğlu,H.Gamification can be used to motivate people to carry out hard-toperform tasks. It can help in changing undesirable habits and in improving a person’s subjective well-being. Sleep-wake behaviors are important determinants of day-to-day well-being. This study aims to find out whether it is possible to modify sleep-wake habits using gamification. To this end, a gamified alarm clock app, Sleepy Bird, was designed and tested in a user study with thirteen participants using gamified and thirteen participants using non-gamified versions for two weeks. The results indicate that the participants of the gamified version were more motivated to start the day at required times than the participants of the non-gamified version. The participants of the gamified version were also observed to have made desirable modifications to their sleep-wake habits. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 4Analysis of B2c Mobile Application Characteristics and Quality Factors Based on Iso 25010 Quality Model(Springer Verlag, 2014) Yildiz,E.; Bilgen,S.; Tokdemir,G.; Cagiltay,N.E.; Erturan,Y.N.The number of mobile applications in mobile market has rapidly increased as new technology and new devices are emerging at remarkable speed which shows mobile applications have an important role in every field of our life. Among those, even some of the mobile applications have a long time life as end-users use those effectively, some of them fail to do so that prevents the companies to reach from their aim. The main reason of that problem results from the quality of the mobile applications. Although there are some methods and metrics to analyze the quality of mobile applications, they have lack of criteria since they are mostly based on ISO 9126 quality model factors which are invalid anymore. This study aims to analyze both mobile commerce applications' characteristics and quality factors and sub-factors based on ISO 25010 product quality model. Accordingly a quality model is proposed by analysis performed by a group of experts from the mobile software development area. The results of this study aims to help developing more qualified and effective mobile applications from developer perspective. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 4Bicriteria Scheduling Problem on the Two-Machine Flowshop Using Simulated Annealing(Springer Verlag, 2010) Mesgarpour,M.; Kirkavak,N.; Ozaktas,H.Real life scheduling problems require the decision maker to consider a number of criteria before arriving at any decision. The trade-offs involved in considering several different criteria provide useful insights for the decision maker. Surprisingly, research in the field of multi-objective scheduling has been quite limited when compared to research in single criterion scheduling. The subject of this paper is the bicriteria scheduling problem in a two-machine flowshop. The objective is to find a job sequence that minimizes sum of weighted total flowtime and total tardiness. Based on the problem characteristics, a Simulated Annealing algorithm is developed. The proposed metaheuristic is compared with the branch and bound enumeration algorithm of the integer programming model as well as a modified version of the well-known NEH algorithm. During these evaluations, the experimental design approach and careful statistical analysis have been used to validate the effectiveness of the simulated annealing approach. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 7Normalizing relational database schemas using mathematica(Springer Verlag, 2006) Yazici,A.; Karakaya,Z.In this paper, basic relational database (DB) normalization algorithms are implemented efficiently as Mathematica modules. It was observed that, Mathematica provided a straightforward platform as opposed to previous ones, mainly Prolog based tools which required complex data structures such as linked list representations with pointers. A Java user interface called JMath-Norm was designed to execute the Mathematica modules in a systematic way. For this purpose, Mathematical Java link facility (JLink) is utilized to drive the Mathematica kernel. JMath-Norm provides an effective interactive tool in an educational setting for teaching DB normalization theory. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.Article Steady mixed convection in a heated lid-driven square cavity filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium(Springer Verlag, 2015) Pekmen,B.; Tezer-Sezgin,M.Steady mixed convection flow in a porous square cavity with moving side walls is studied numerically using the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM). The equations governing the two-dimensional, steady, laminar mixed convection flow of an incompressible fluid are solved for various values of parameters as Darcy (Da), Grashof (Gr), and Prandtl (Pr) numbers. The results are given in terms of vorticity contours, streamlines and isotherms. Further, average Nusselt number variations with respect to the problem parameters are also presented. The fluid flows slowly as Da decreases since the permeability of the medium decreases, and the increase in Grashof number causes the flow to pass to the natural convective behavior. DRBEM has the advantage of using considerably small number of grid points due to the boundary only nature of the method. This provides the numerical procedure computationally cheap and efficient. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.Article Citation - Scopus: 2Steady Mixed Convection in a Heated Lid-Driven Square Cavity Filled With a Fluid-Saturated Porous Medium(Springer Verlag, 2015) Pekmen,B.; Pekmen, Bengisen; Tezer-Sezgin,M.; Pekmen, Bengisen; Mathematics; MathematicsSteady mixed convection flow in a porous square cavity with moving side walls is studied numerically using the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM). The equations governing the two-dimensional, steady, laminar mixed convection flow of an incompressible fluid are solved for various values of parameters as Darcy (Da), Grashof (Gr), and Prandtl (Pr) numbers. The results are given in terms of vorticity contours, streamlines and isotherms. Further, average Nusselt number variations with respect to the problem parameters are also presented. The fluid flows slowly as Da decreases since the permeability of the medium decreases, and the increase in Grashof number causes the flow to pass to the natural convective behavior. DRBEM has the advantage of using considerably small number of grid points due to the boundary only nature of the method. This provides the numerical procedure computationally cheap and efficient. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.Conference Object Multimodal Interaction Flow Representation for Ubiquitous Environments - Mif: a Case Study in Surgical Navigation Interface Design(Springer Verlag, 2015) Tokdemir,G.; Altun,G.; Cagiltay,N.E.; Maras,H.H.; Borcek,A.O.With the advent of technology, new interaction modalities became available which augmented the system interaction. Even though there are vast amount of applications for the ubiquitous devices like mobile agents, smart glasses and wearable technologies, many of them are hardly preferred by users. The success of those systems is highly dependent on the quality of the interaction design. Moreover, domain specific applications developed for these ubiquitous devices involve detailed domain knowledge which normally IT professionals do not have, which may involve a substantial lack of quality in the services provided. Hence, effective and high quality domain specific applications developed for these ubiquitous devices require significant collaboration of domain experts and IT professionals during the development process. Accordingly, tools to provide common communication medium between domain experts and IT professionals would provide necessary medium for communication. In this study, a new modelling tool for interaction design of ubiquitous devices like mobile agents, wearable devices is proposed which includes different interaction modalities. In order to better understand the effectiveness of this newly proposed design tool, an experimental study is conducted with 11 undergraduate students (novices) and 15 graduate students (experienced) of Computer Engineering Department for evaluating defect detection performance for the defects seeded into the interface design of a neuronavigation device. Results show that the defects were realized as more difficult for the novices and their performance was lower compared to experienced ones. Considering the defect types, wrong information and wrong button type of defects were recognized as more difficult. The results of this study aimed to provide insights for the system designers to better represent the interaction design details and to improve the communication level of IT professionals and the domain experts. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 1A Software Metric for Python Language(Springer Verlag, 2010) Misra,S.; Cafer,F.There are many metrics for evaluating the quality of codes written in different programming languages. However, no efforts have been done to propose metrics for Python, which is an important and useful language especially for the software development for the embedded systems. In this present work, we are trying to investigate all the factors, which are responsible for increasing the complexity of code written in Python language. Accordingly, we have proposed a unified metric for this language. Practical applicability of the metric is demonstrated on a case study. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.Conference Object The Effect of Split Attention in Surgical Education(Springer Verlag, 2014) Özçelik,E.; Ercil Cagiltay,N.; Sengul,G.; Tuner,E.; Unal,B.Surgical education through simulation is an important area to improve the level of education and to decrease the risks, ethical considerations and cost of the educational environments. In the literature there are several studies conducted to better understand the effect of these simulation environments on learning. However among those studies the human-computer interaction point of view is very limited. Surgeons need to look at radiological images such as magnetic resonance images (MRI) to be sure about the location of the patient's tumor during a surgical operation. Thus, they go back and forth between physically separated places (e.g. the operating table and light screen display for MRI volume sets). This study is conducted to investigate the effect of presenting different information sources in close proximity on human performance in surgical education. For this purpose, we have developed a surgical education simulation scenario which is controlled by a haptic interface. To better understand the effect of split attention in surgical education, an experimental study is conducted with 27 subjects. The descriptive results of study show that even the integrated group performed the tasks with a higher accuracy level (by traveling less distance, entering less wrong directions and hitting less walls), the results are not statistically significant. Accordingly, even there are some evidences about the effect of split attention on surgical simulation environments, the results of this study need to be validated by controlling students' skill levels on controlling the haptic devices and 2D/3D space perception skills. The results of this study may guide the system developers to better design the HCI interface of their designs especially for the area of surgical simulation. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 11Jmathnorm: a Database Normalization Tool Using Mathematica(Springer Verlag, 2007) Yazici,A.; Karakaya,Z.This paper is about designing a complete interactive tool, named JMathNorm, for relational database (RDB) normalization using Mathematica. It is an extension of the prototype developed by the same authors [1] with the inclusion of Second Normal Form (2NF), and Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) in addition to the existing Third normal Form (3NF) module. The tool developed in this study is complete and can be used for real-time database design as well as an aid in teaching fundamental concepts of DB normalization to students with limited mathematical background. JMathNorm also supports interactive use of modules for experimenting the fundamental set operations such as closure, and full closure together with modules to obtain the minimal cover of the functional dependency set and testing an attribute for a candidate key. JMathNorm's GUI interface is written in Java and utilizes Mathematica's JLink facility to drive the Mathematica kernel. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
