Reconstruction of Landscape at the Traffic Facilities, Part1

• Inoue Seiya

  Tsukuba College of Technology

• Lee Eun jin

  University of Tsukuba

• Yamamoto Sari

  University of Tsukuba

• Nishikawa Kiyoshi

  University of Tsukuba

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 交通関連施設における視環境の再構築1
• Effectiveness of Foreign languages and Pictograms in Signs
• サインにおける外国語表記とピクトグラムの有効性について

Abstract

Signs with high necessity for foreigners had better be described in not only Japanese and English but also Chinese and Hangul. However in signs that are described in four languages, each character is small, and the readability of the whole declines extremely. Therefore, we experimented on the optimal number of languages in signs and the effectiveness of pictograms. As a result, after all, the readability of signs in two languages was significantly high for Japanese and English native speakers than that in four languages. And for Hangul native speakers, the readability did not decline in two languages, because English is effective for non-native speakers too. The effectiveness of pictograms, however, was not obvious in this experiment.

Journal

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD

  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD 52 (0), 21-21, 2005

  Japanese Society for the Science of Design

Keywords

• Station space
• Sign
• Pictogram

Details

• CRID: 1390001205611115904
• NII Article ID: 130005022354
• DOI: 10.11247/jssd.52.0.21.0
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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