THESIS
Anthropology Department, in line with its community awareness concerns, has generated a number of undergraduate and graduate theses related to the cultural conditions encircling members with a disability.
Graduate
- PhD. Thesis, Nevzat Denk, 2013, Gözde Dalan, The Anthropology of Alzheimer’s Disease
- PhD. Thesis, 2009, An Anthropological Study of the Social Security System in Turkey and Problems of Retirement
- PhD. Thesis, (devam eden) Özge Burgut, Disease Perception of Mothers with Children Who Have Phenilketuneria
- MA Thesis, 2007, Sema Alpaytaç, A Case Study on Autism in Turkey
Undergraduate
- Ehad Midilli, The Impact of Speech Impairment (Stuttering) on Social Life: An Anthropological Study Carried Out Among Attendees of İstanbul, Taksim, Loggita Speech Center, 2006
- Tuğba Erenler, Evaluation and Attitudes of 12 Mothers who have 3-6 years old children with visual impairment and who attend the İstanbul Parıltı Visually Impaired Education Center, 2006
- Sevgi Hale, Anthropological Study on 7 Inhabitants living in the İstanbul Kayışdağı Darülaceze Old People’s Home: Their intergroup relations and their world view on ageing, 2008
- Nuray Çavuşoğlu, Families Who Own an Autistic Child: Examples from Istanbul, 2011
Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation students completed the following undergraduate theses involving various issues of people with disabilities:
- Elif Üstün, The relation of strength of shoulder and shoulder girdle muscles on the fine and gross motor skills of children with intellectual disabilities, 2013
- Tuğba Öztürk, The impacts of antigravity muscles’ strength to balance, posture and levels of physical activity in children with intellectual disability, 2013
- Seda Baktır, Comparison of respiratory parameters between children with and without physical disabilities, 2013
- Hande Köseoğlu, Investigation of quality of life issues for families and their children with cerebral palsy, 2013
- Esra Kalkan, The relationship between activities of daily living and motor function of upper extremity among patient with hemiplegia 2013
Assistive Technology research at the Faculty of Engineering click here .
Department of Computer Engineering carries out research and projects related to people with disabilities. Some of the completed graduate and undergraduate thesis are as follows:
Graduate
- MS Thesis, Real-time Activity Monitoring , Gamze Uslu, 2013
Undergraduate
- Gamze Uslu, Indoor Activity Monitoring with Bayesian Classification, 2011
- Haktan Işılak, Intelligent Home for Disabled/Elderly People, 2011
- İsmail Yavuz, Transportation Aid for Visually Impaired People, 2011
- Hakan Gök, Transmission of Voice Commands over Multihop WSN for Disabled: An Experimental Study, 2011
- Cihat Keser, Controlling Computer Mouse and Keyboard using a Head-mounted Accelerometer, 2011
- Mert Usta, Turkish Sign Language Interpreter, 2011
- Ahmet Polat, Sign Interpreter using Accelerometer, 2011
- Canberk Aslan, Finger-Driven Mouse Navigation System for Disabled, 2011
- Barış İnanç, Neural Impulse Activator Supported Web Browser for Disabled, 2011
- Tansel Bozkurt, Facially Interacted Dining Robot Arm for MS Patients, 2011
- Ercan Çınar, A Touchscreen Keypad Application on Mini2440 for Disabled People, 2011
- Halil İbrahim Dursunoğlu, Multimodal Human Activity Monitoring, 2012
- Abdurrahman Mürsel, Monitoring Progress of Patients in Rehabilitation, 2013
- Haluk Alp Kellecioğlu, A Virtual Reality Environment for Rehabilitation, 2013
- Erdem Sarı, Word Bomb: Educational Game for MS Patients, 2013
- Barışcan Kayaoğlu, Gyroscope Enhanced Glove Mouse, 2013