AI-powered Consumer Electronics Repair towards a Digital Circular Economy

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10424

Keywords:

Repair, AI-powered repair, Circular economy, Consumer electronics, EEE

Author Biography

Nazlı Terzioğlu, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom

Dr. Nazlı Terzioğlu is a Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art, teaching in the MDes Design Futures programme. Her areas of expertise include design for the circular economy and product repair. She was the PI of AI-Fixer project funded by Ecological Citizens Network. She has been involved in several international and national research projects funded by Erasmus+, Vinnova, and UKRI. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at Brunel University London, where she worked on the PISCES project, focusing on plastic packaging waste in Indonesia. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University in Sweden. In 2017, she completed her practice-based PhD in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art, funded by the Ministry of Economy of Turkey.

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24-06-2025

How to Cite

Terzioğlu, N. (2025). AI-powered Consumer Electronics Repair towards a Digital Circular Economy. Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025), (6). https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10424

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No. 6 (2025): Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025)

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Track 4: Repair, Care and Maintenance – Extended Abstracts

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