Ercument Gorgul

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Adjunct Faculty at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences

This paper is a study about visual analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of popular free floating bike sharing system (FFBSS) Mobike in Shanghai. Mining of over 32 million data points revealed strong cyclical variations on temporal patterns of usage between weeks; however weekday and weekend patterns differ. By using a geohash index based spatial dat...

This study explores the neurophysiological impact of visual qualities in Shanghai’s chosen urban spaces, specifically focusing on the perception of street’s visual quality. This metric has been defined by changes in physical space of intersection vs. in street, visibility of the sky, continuity of the wall, and ratio of sections. These variables co...

This research focuses on comprehensive analysis and expressive visualization of bio-physiological data during walking vs. cycling based on a particular city block in Shanghai. In this way, perception of different environments and corresponding physical response can help people to know more about themselves in a direct, quantified, and visualized wa...

Advancements in wearable biosensor technologies in recent years enable us to witness an unprecedented boom, as interest in fitness health data grow exponentially. Learning about one's metrics and sharing of this data in various platforms has arguably become a demand and practice for daily life. This research aims to discover potential applications...

In this paper, we explore the influence of street space visual qualities on human physiology and perception of comfort at selected street corners (i.e., Fumin, Changde, Xinle and Donghu Road, Jing'an district, Shanghai). The visual qualities of the street were identified by the physical space variations, sky visibility, wall continuity and the cros...

Shared bicycles have been around for a while and growing steadily in China. Recently, concept and volume of this new form of shared transportation vehicles captured a widespread attention and usage. This study is focused in two areas known as former French concession in Shanghai and in Xintiandi. Using one of the popular bicycle sharing app "Mobike...

Creating livable cities through cultural development is important not only because of the inherent value of culture itself, but also because of the social, economic, and environmental benefits afforded by communities with increased pride and attachment to places and people they share the city with. This is increasingly more critical for children an...

Over the past four decades, infrastructural and economic development in Chinese cities has outpaced its cultural development. As the proportion of people living in cities in China quintupled from 1950 to 2014, from 11% to 54% according to a 2009 report by McKinsey, while at the same time various challenges have paved the way to limit cultural prosp...

Over the past four decades, infrastructural and economic development in Chinese cities has outpaced its cultural development. As the proportion of people living in cities in China quintupled from 1950 to 2014, from 11% to 54% according to a 2009 report by McKinsey, while at the same time various challenges have paved the way to limit cultural prosp...

Creating livable cities through cultural development is important not only because of the inherent value of culture itself, but also because of the social, economic, and environmental benefits afforded by communities with increased pride and attachment to places and people they share the city with. This is increasingly more critical for children an...

According to 2009 McKinsey Report, more than half of the world's population is now living in towns and cities, generating more than 80% of global GDP. Today, as the urban spaces in most of the Chinese cities are being developed towards a greater density, "Urban Thresholds" are gaining importance as zones, portals or transitional spaces, as there ar...

This paper attempts to demonstrate challenges and opportunities in design education in greater China, by focusing on two diverse steps of teaching design creativity, while depicting experimental design curricula. Two programs have been run in two different universities in Hong Kong and in Shanghai. Both cases tackle with deployment of unconventiona...

Buropia 2003,Paris-Scanned with CamScannerAmong many other fields, recent advances in information technologies also affected the agenda of architecture. This paper discusses the transforming process of spatial experience in 20th century by the influence of multimedia, regarding the user and user experience, in context of multi-modal interaction. Th...