Perceptional Characteristics of Effective Safety Signs Corresponding to International Criteria

국제 기준에 부합하는 효과적 안전표지의 지각 특성

  • Lim, Hyeon-Kyo (Department of Safety Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Park, Young-Won (Department of Industrial Design, Hongik University) ;
  • Jung, Gwang-Tae (Department of Design Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
  • 임현교 (충북대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 박영원 (홍익대학교 산업디자인학과) ;
  • 정광태 (한국기술교육대학교 디자인공학)
  • Published : 2008.10.31

Abstract

In usual safety signs are final means to transmit hazard information so that the importance of them cannot be emphasized too much. Nevertheless, in Korea, few people are interested in functions of safety signs so that evaluation of safety signs are seldom committed. This research was conducted to evaluate and compare perceptional characteristics of safety signs, especially "Fall" signs, by Semantic Differential Method and Multi-dimensional Scaling Method, with undergraduate students as well as industrial workers. According to research results on several signs evaluated high through suggested procedure, action inducibility was different for students majoring in different sciences, but it had common elements in the sense of 'openness' or 'arrangements'. Besides, perceptional images on safety signs were mainly recognized with bases of 'arrangement' for student group and 'simplicity' for industrial workers, respectively, and their maps corresponded well with each other by partial rotating so that students and workers seemed to recognize safety signs with similar factors though their name might be different. However, since perceptional characteristics including image map, comprehensibility, and action inducibility were similar for student group whereas those were not for worker group, it was concluded that the test for action inducibility would be absolutely necessary for safety signs for workers' group.

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