News and Announcements

METU/BILTIR Product Usability Unit is a not-for-profit research unit which carries out user-centered design research studies. UTEST merges an academic infrastructure with design practice, to serve for two purposes: Developing academic know-how and giving design and research consultancy to product developers.

 

Two of our researchers finished their PhD

(Posted on 28th ofMarch 2013)

Gülşen Töre-Yargın (on 29th of January) and Armağan Kuru (on 6th of February) finished their PhD and graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Industrial Design through supervision of the Head of our Unit Çiğdem Erbuğ.

The thesis entitled "Developing a Model for Effective Communication of User Research Findings to the Design Process" by Gülşen Töre-Yargın and "Exploration of User Experience of Personal Informatics Systems" by Armağan Kuru will be available online on METU Library soon.

We designed an online "Happy New Year" presentation

(Posted on 30th of December 2012)