Gökhan Ince

Gökhan Ince
Istanbul Technical University · Department of Computer Engineering

PhD

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Advancements in electronic textiles over the past decade have significantly transformed the field of wearable technology, with recent developments leading to the production of a wide array of textile‐based sensing and actuation systems. Beyond sensors and actuators, textile‐based technologies can benefit from the integration of additional electroni...
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The use of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to identify emotional states has gained significant interest, especially with the rise of virtual reality (VR) applications. However, the extensive calibration required for precise emotion recognition models presents a significant challenge, particularly for sensitive groups such as children, eld...
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The emergence of e-textiles has facilitated impressive growth in the field of wearable technologies in recent years. Textile-based electrodes enabled long-period electrocardiogram monitoring within the health care field as they are less irritant to the skin and can be naturally embedded into the clothes. Beyond the specific health-oriented applicat...
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Aim: The aim of this research is examining the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) in the reduction of dental anxiety in children with novel methods. Methods: The three arm parallel-group randomised clinical study was conducted in children aged 6-10 years. Pulpotomy procedure was performed on randomised 90 selected children (n=30 in each group...
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Wearable technologies with biosignal monitoring are growing in interest day by day owing to their high degree of flexibility, comfort, reusability, and ability for continuous and long-term monitoring. Adhesive, single-use electrodes are currently the most widespread ECG monitoring method. Nevertheless, they are not ideal for long-term monitoring si...
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The aim of this research is to develop textile-based resistive pressure sensing socks for diabetes mellitus for early detection warning system.In order to succeed this aim,three conductive fabrics are seperated by two different nonconductive fabrics which have divergent sizes.Sensors are simple to manufacture,practical,washable and easy to utilize....
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Soft grippers, generating movement immediately, are generally based on flexible materials actuated by air pressure and comprised of bulky parts, including valves, compressors/pumps, motors, and tubes. In this work, a compact soft gripper with the ability to actuate with a low boiling point liquid (acetone) is presented. SolidWorks 2021 software and...
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Soft pouch motors, engineered to mimic the natural movements of skeletal muscles, play a crucial role in advancing robotics and exoskeleton development. However, the fabrication techniques often involve multistage processes; they lack soft sensing capabilities and are sensitive to cutting and damage. This work introduces a new textile‐based pouch m...
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Soft wearable robotic devices have emerged as a promising solution for human mobility assistance and rehabilitation, yet current solutions suffer from issues such as bulkiness, high cost, nonscalability, noise, and limited portability. This study introduces a novel approach to soft robotic assistive devices using untethered, soft actuators with sea...
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Designing advanced soft robots with soft sensing capabilities for real‐world applications remains challenging due to the intricate integration of actuation and sensor capabilities, which require diverse materials and complex procedures. This paper introduces a fabric‐based robotic technology featuring an “all textile‐based self‐sensing pneumatic ac...
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Multimodal emotion recognition has the potential to impact various fields, including human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and emotional intelligence systems. This study introduces a comprehensive framework that enhances the accuracy and computational efficiency of emotion recognition by leveraging knowledge distillation and transfer learnin...
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Textile products are present in almost every aspect of human life. With the introduction of electronic textiles, textile products have become capable of converting various physiological and environmental stimuli into electrical signals, many of which are of vital importance to humans. Therefore, these products require real-time (low-latency) and ro...
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In the avionics industry, software test automation is a crucial component, as it plays a significant role in accelerating the development process. Since all automation systems are error-prone, the automation systems that affect flight safety should be supervised by humans as they must be reliable. In this study, an augmented reality based software...
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Stride length estimation (SLE) is a fundamental component of pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) in indoor navigation and positioning (INP) applications. The knowledge of stride length is crucial for determining the distances covered by pedestrians and estimating their position in real-time. In this study, we proposed a real-time SLE method using innov...
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Wearable technology applications have experienced remarkable development and advancements, with soft and stretchable strain sensors playing a significant role in this progress. Despite the promising potential of combed‐shaped interdigital capacitive strain sensors in wearable electronics, several challenges exist, including limited stretchability,...
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Purpose The present study investigates human behavioral and emotional experiences based on human-built environment interaction with a specific interest in urban graffiti displaying fear and pleasure-inducing facial expressions. Regarding human behavioral and emotional experience, two questions are asked for the outcome of human responses and two hy...
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Aim:With the spread of technological possibilities, the idea that humanoid robots can accompany medical interventions has gained momentum. The objectives of this two-armed randomized controlled study were (i) to assess the effects of a human-like robot on behavior guidance during children’s dental treatment, by a comparison of the dental anxiety sc...
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Hizmet robotları için gündelik etkileşimlerinde yürütme, sensör veya ortamsal faktörlerden dolayı emniyetsiz durumlar oluşabilir. Bu tür durumlarda emniyetin sağlanması kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu durumların sezilebilmesi için sürekli eylem gözetimi ve hata sezme bileşenlerine ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. Bu amaçla, bu çalışmada nesne etkileşim hatalarının...
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The use of textiles in soft robotics is gaining popularity because of the advantages textiles offer over other materials in terms of weight, conformability, and ease of manufacture. The purpose of this research is to examine the stitching process used to construct fabric-based pneumatic bending actuators as well as the effect of segment types on th...
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Soft pressure sensors have sparked a lot of interest over the last decade because of their applications in human motion recognition, object detection, and human–computer interaction. However, their mass production and availability to end users are limited due to the complex and time-consuming steps. The scalability of working range for various appl...
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Since the beginning of the Industry 4.0 era, Augmented Reality (AR) has gained significant popularity. Especially in production industries, AR has proven itself as an innovative technology renovating traditional production activities, making operators more productive and helping companies to make savings in different expense items. Despite these fi...
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Increased usage of smart meters enables information exchange between customers and utility providers in smart grid systems. Nowadays, the cloud-centric architecture has become a bottleneck for the decentralized and data-driven microgrids evolving from centralized Smart grids. Hence, fog computing is an appropriate paradigm to build distributed, lat...
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Wearable electronics and electronic textiles are becoming increasingly important as technology advances. To supply the conductivity required in wearable electronics, investigations on the integration of electronic components with textiles by adding conductivity to fabric structures, as well as the development of items generated in this manner in te...
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Wearable electronics is a rapidly growing field that has recently begun to enter the consumer electronics industry with viable commercial devices. To fulfil the increased demand for wearable devices robust, compact, reliable, and cost-effective solutions are required. As a result, it is critical to do extensive research into suitable materials and...
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Acoustic scene analysis (ASA) relies on the dynamic sensing and understanding of stationary and non-stationary sounds from various events, background noises and human actions with objects. However, the spatio-temporal nature of the sound signals may not be stationary, and novel events may exist that eventually deteriorate the performance of the ana...
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In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end IoT framework for predictive maintenance with machine learning. With this framework, all the processes for developing a learning-based predictive maintenance model such as data acquisition, data preprocessing, training the machine learning model and making predictions about the status of an equipment are au...
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This study aims to design a usability test enhanced with subjective usability evaluation methods (concurrent think-aloud, post-task and posttest questionnaires) and objective usability evaluation methods (eye-tracking, emotion recognition and logging technologies). Furthermore, the relationships between the subjective metrics such as task difficult...
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The loyalty programs are one of the effective marketing and business development strategies. Solutions offered for loyalty programs are generally tailor-made and created by sector-specific software. Existing loyalty program solutions cannot offer campaign creation tools which can be used by teams, such as sales and marketing often lacking software...
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In this paper we develop an application that eases the anxiety of the child dentistry patients by taking them into a virtual environment. This virtual environment is a friendly and calming place, thus making it possible to minimize the pain and hard-ship caused by the dental procedures. The main aim of this study is to improve the user experience a...
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Design education aims to develop creativity ability, gain production knowledge and technical knowledge. Design education is given at many different levels from high school to doctorate level. Project This project focus on high school level of design education. Virtual reality technology enables users to enter a virtual scene by isolating them from...
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Computerized machine knitting offers an attractive fabrication technology for incorporating wearable assistive devices into garments. In this work, we utilized, for the first time, whole-garment knitting techniques to manufacture a seamless fully knitted pneumatic bending actuator, which represents an advancement to existing cut-and-sew manufacturi...
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Real-time human activity recognition is a popular and challenging topic in sensor systems. Inertial measurement units, vision-based systems, and wearable sensor systems are mostly used for gathering motion data. However, each system has drawbacks such as drift error, illumination, occlusion, etc. Therefore, under certain circumstances, they are not...
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This paper presents a study of an audiovisual interface-based drumming system for multimodal human–robot interaction. The interactive multimodal drumming game is used in conjunction with humanoid robots to establish an audiovisual interactive interface. This study is part of a project to design robot and avatar assistants for education and therapy,...
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CardioVascular Diseases (CVDs) have a significant share over all medical problems. From this point of view, many studies have been conducted on heart diseases and different heartbeat monitoring systems have been developed. Although Electro-CardioGraphy (ECG) is the most widely used technique among other monitoring systems, ECG measurement with conv...
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One of the main challenges of navigation systems is the inability of orientation and insufficient localization accuracy in indoor spaces. There are situations where navigation is required to function indoors with high accuracy. One such example is the task of safely guiding visually impaired people from one place to another indoors. In this study,...
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Objective We introduced a humanoid robot for the use of techno-psychological distraction techniques in children aged 4–10 to reduce their anxiety and improve their behaviour during dental treatment. Materials and methods Two hundred children (98 boys, 102 girls; mean age: 6.5 ± 1.66 years) appointed for first time for dental caries were included a...
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Development of intelligent systems with the pursuit of detecting abnormal events in real world and in real time is challenging due to difficult environmental conditions, hardware limitations, and computational algorithmic restrictions. As a result, degradation of detection performance in dynamically changing environments is often encountered. Howev...
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Young isolated neutron stars (INSs) most commonly manifest themselves as rotationally powered pulsars that involve conventional radio pulsars as well as gamma-ray pulsars and rotating radio transients. Some other young INS families manifest themselves as anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters that are commonly accepted as magnetars, i...
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Young isolated neutron stars (INS) most commonly manifest themselves as rotationally powered pulsars (RPPs) which involve conventional radio pulsars as well as gamma-ray pulsars (GRPs) and rotating radio transients (RRATs). Some other young INS families manifest themselves as anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) which...
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In the industrial plants, detection of abnormal events during the processes is a difficult task for human operators who need to monitor the production. In this work, the main aim is to detect anomalies in the industrial processes by an intelligent audio based solution for the new generation of factories. Therefore, this paper presents a Convolution...
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Realizing 3D human models digitally is a difficult, yet continually required task. Numerous technologies are utilized to create these models. Due to the variety of technologies used, an evaluation and benchmarking is necessary. This is a comparative study of four such technologies. We compare a wearable textile sensor based motion capture system we...
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In the last decade, there have been numerous challenges in the field of security and privacy since electronic textiles have grown dramatically. Electronic textile applications are becoming the target of attackers due to critical personal data collected the body their sensors. System designers must be aware of the security requirements to develop a...
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This paper describes the development and testing of a brain-computer musical interface (BCMI) that allows a user to select and transform one element of a musical texture by paying attention to that particular element. In order to realize the BCMI system mentioned, a comprehensive testing scheme was established which uses auditory evoked potentials...
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Choreography is a creative art of defining sequences of movement. The choreographing process benefits a lot from the use of digital applications. In this study, we investigate the effects of different interactive techniques on user experience for a choreography generator interface. We develop a virtual reality-based and an augmented reality-based i...
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Emotions potentially have a significant impact on human actions and recognizing affective states is an effective way of implementing Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems which process brain signals to allow direct communication and interaction with the environment. In this paper, a real-time emotion recognition model was developed on the basis of...
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In recent years, as a result of multidisciplinary studies in textile science and technology, sensor characteristics are added to the textile products. Thanks to the many features of e-textile products, motion monitoring can be done in novel ways. The prototype developed in this paper, is low-cost, low-power, easy-to-integrate, and fully capable of...
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The industrial robots in factories have been recently designed and utilized to handle dangerous tasks for humans, to achieve faster and more accurate production processes, and to reduce the cost of the products. Since the competitiveness in today’s business environment increases, manufacturers require more intelligent systems making smarter decisio...
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Augmented Reality (AR) has increased its popularity in both industry and academia since its introduction two decades ago. The AR has carried the way of accessing and manipulating the information to another level by enhancing perception of the real world with virtual information. In this chapter, the basic technical components of AR are introduced a...
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Programming is a popular subject in education and experts emphasize the importance of teaching programming to the children in the high school or even earlier. In this study, we used robots for teaching programming basics to the high school and college students and observed the effects of different interfaces. We used an educational robot called Thy...
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In this paper, we present a new approach to real-time tracking and sonification of 3D object shapes and test the ability of blindfolded participants to learn to locate and recognize objects using our system in a controlled physical environment. In our sonification and sensory substitution system, a depth camera accesses the 3D structure of objects...
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Along with the widespread use of technology, there have been many studies on human-computer relation recently. Study of the effects of computer systems on human education can be shown as an example of this. In this paper, a reliable and real time tangible user interface system developed for the air drum game which is used both for game and computer...