At the TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Research Project Competition, the ENCOREN Team, made up of Enes Arslan, a 3rd-year student in the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Furkan Ölçal, a 2nd-year student in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with academic supervision by H. Meltem Nergis Şirin, Research Assistant in the HKU Department of Software Engineering, won first place in the “Information and Communication Technologies” category with their project “G-GLOVE”.
HKU WON THE COMPETITION WITH “G-GLOVE”
HKU students took part in the competition in the “Information and Communication Technologies Field, Wearable Technology Thematic Area” of the TÜBİTAK “2242 University Students Research Project Competitions”. In the “Information and Communication Technologies” category of the competition organised by TÜBİTAK, the project “G-GLOVE”, prepared by HKU students, was selected first in the final among 511 participating projects.
IT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO FEEL OBJECTS IN VIRTUAL REALITY
Speaking about G-GLOVE, the project’s academic supervisor Res. Asst. H. Meltem Nergis Şirin said: “Recent developments in telecommunications and the tactile internet have paved the way for studying human senses through haptic wearable technology. Wearable technology provides tactile sensations and control over a network using virtual reality (VR). One of the main criteria of this technology is extremely low latency. The G-GLOVE project is a haptic glove, a lower-cost wearable technology with an original mechanical design that can give a greater sense of realism than its counterparts, for use in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications. Our project’s product, the haptic glove, that is G-GLOVE, allows us to feel objects in virtual reality. G-GLOVE is a high-quality, low-cost product in which body signals are sensed, processed and transmitted, and in which different hardware choices can be made. Furthermore, with this product, we aimed to develop a technological product that will add value to the national and domestic technology drive while helping Türkiye have a say in the production of AR/VR equipment.”
“OUR STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS ARE SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF”
Congratulating the students on their success, HKU Rector Prof. Dr. Türkay Dereli said: “As HKU, we encourage our students and academics to put their technological ideas into practice, and we provide them with free training, mentorship and incubation centre support services. We are a university with excellent opportunities for techno-entrepreneurship, such as the Technology Transfer Office, OSB Teknokent, in which we are a partner at the Gaziantep Organised Industrial Zone, and the Prototyping and Entrepreneurship Centre. The achievements of our graduates and students, to whom we offer a good entrepreneurship ecosystem, motivate us even more to increase such technological investments. We are extremely pleased and happy that the projects of our students competing in the ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ category of the ‘TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Research Project Competition’ were selected first. I congratulate all our students who work hard producing ideas and projects to light up Türkiye’s future, and all our academics who contributed.”
News: Mustafa KANLI /HKU
