The Importance and Evolution of Wearable Technology in Industrial Design Education in Turkey

By the development of technology, especially after the 2000s, the balances in the market have changed, and this differentiation has allowed new products and services to enter the market. Wearable technology products have become one of these. Enriching ordinary daily products with various accessories has enabled these products to transform into smart products that can perceive their surroundings and act in accordance with the physical environment they are in. When the design and creation processes of wearable technology products, which have made great progress and become widespread in recent years, are examined, there are many disciplines that contribute to the process of reaching the end user. Among these disciplines, the discipline of industrial design has a very important place. In this study, the relationship between the subject of industrial design graduate theses published in Turkey and wearable technology was analyzed. Bibliometric analysis is used as the method and the sample area was determined as YÖKTEZ. As a result of this study, it was determined that although the subject of wearable technology in the field of industrial design is new to this field, it has progressed day by day, and the field of industrial design can conduct interdisciplinary studies on this subject with other disciplines.