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                                                                <journal-id>ergonomi̇</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Ergonomi</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2651-4877</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Sevinç Serpil AYTAÇ</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.33439/ergonomi.1825104</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Ergonomics Design</subject>
                                                            <subject>Design (Other)</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Ergonomi Tasarımı</subject>
                                                            <subject>Tasarım (Diğer)</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>OKUL ÖNCESİ GİYİM ERGONOMİSİ: PAYDAŞ ENDİŞELERİ VE GİYİLEBİLİR TEKNOLOJİYE YÖNELİK TALEP ANALİZİ</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>ERGONOMICS OF PRESCHOOL CLOTHING: AN ANALYSIS OF STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS AND DEMAND FOR WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6607-5652</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Koca</surname>
                                    <given-names>Emine</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELI UNIVERSITY</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2184-3894</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ok Zöhra</surname>
                                    <given-names>Esra</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>AMASYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, AMASYA TEKNİK BİLİMLER MESLEK YÜKSEKOKULU</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260415">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>15</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                        <volume>9</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>1</fpage>
                                        <lpage>14</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251117">
                        <day>11</day>
                        <month>17</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260309">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>09</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, Ergonomi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Ergonomi</copyright-holder>
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                            <p>Bu çalışma, okul öncesi eğitim ortamlarında çocuk giysilerinden kaynaklanan ergonomik riskleri, güvenlik açıklarını ve fonksiyonel uyumsuzlukları tespit etmeyi ve bu problemlere çözüm olabilecek giyilebilir teknoloji konseptine yönelik paydaş (ebeveyn ve eğitim personeli) talebini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmada, keşfedici ardışık karma yöntem deseni kullanılmış; ilk aşamada bir vaka çalışmasıyla keşfedilen temalar, ikinci aşamada 126 ebeveyn ve 22 eğitim personeline uygulanan anket ile test edilmiştir. Veri analizinde Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H ve Ki-Kare testleri kullanılmıştır.Bulgular, eğitim personelinin &quot;alt ıslatma&quot;, &quot;düşme&quot;, &quot;ateşlenme&quot; gibi anlık müdahale gerektiren sağlık ve güvenlik risklerine yönelik kaygılarının, ebeveynlere göre istatistiksel olarak anlamlı derecede daha yüksek olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu kaygıların giderilmesinde, giyilebilir teknoloji ile desteklenerek ergonomik olarak geliştirilmiş giysilerin önemli olduğu ve her iki grubun da yüksek oranda bu giysilere ortak talepleri olduğu belirlenmiştir.  Sonuç olarak paydaşların, sağlık ve güvenlik açısından mevcut giysilerin okul ortamının dinamik koşullarında çocuklar için yetersiz kaldığı ve özellikle eğitim personelinin iş yükünü hafifletecek proaktif takip sistemlerine belirgin bir ihtiyaç duyduğu saptanmıştır.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>This study aims to identify ergonomic risks, safety hazards, and functional incompatibilities arising from children&#039;s clothing in preschool settings, as well as reveal stakeholder demand for wearable technology that could solve these problems. Stakeholders include parents and educational staff. The study employed an exploratory, sequential, mixed-methods design. Themes identified in the first phase, through a case study, were tested in the second phase, via a survey administered to 126 parents and 22 educational staff members. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H, and Chi-Square tests were used for data analysis.The findings show that educational staff are more concerned than parents about health and safety risks requiring immediate intervention, such as &quot;bedwetting,&quot; &quot;falling,&quot; and &quot;fever.&quot; The study determined that ergonomically enhanced clothing supported by wearable technology are important in alleviating these concerns, and both groups have a high demand for such clothing. Consequently, stakeholders perceive current clothing as inadequate for children in the dynamic school environment in terms of health and safety. There is a clear need for proactive monitoring systems that would reduce the workload of educational staff.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Ergonomics</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Preschool clothing</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Functional</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Wearable technology</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Okul öncesi giyim</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ergonomi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Fonksiyonel</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Giyilebilir teknoloji</kwd>
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