• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2015

This study tried to investigate the difference of the legibility in different age groups (young and old) with same near visual acuity and to provide preliminary guidelines for the text sizes in the pesticides products based on the legibility experiments. To achieve the objective, legibility evaluation experiments were conducted to test the effects of different age(20s, 50-60s), gender, font type(thick gothic-type and fine gothic-type), thickness (plain and bold), and number of syllables(2 and 3 syllables) in the same near visual acuity(0.6). The results showed that legibility 50s was higher than 20s. And 20s are appealed higher discomfort than 50s. Considering these experimental results, it was recommended that the 14 pt or larger characters (100% readable size) should be used the important information such as toxicity, and the minimum character size was 7 pt (50% readable size) for other information.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2009

This study evaluated the effects of the syllable number(one, two), font type(gothic, myung), color contrast (black on white, white on black), display type(paper, LCD), age(20s, 60s) and character size(2~80pt) on the Korean characters' legibility. Total twenty subjects from two age groups (20s: n=10, 60s: n=10, five male and five female in each group) participated in the legibility test. A target panel was presented in the distance of 50 cm, and subjects conducted a reading tests for, in total, 16 treatment conditions (full combination of syllable number, font type, color contrast and display type). Results showed that two-syllable words revealed better legibility than one-syllable character. The main effects of the age, display type, font type, color contrast, and character size were statistically significant(p<0.01). Paper showed better legibility than LCD, particularly in the 20s and in the character sizes of less than 9pt. Gothic revealed more correct answers than Myung, particularly in the 60s, paper, and white on black conditions. It is expected that these results can provide basic data for the determination of the Korean characters' minimum legible size standards. For example, the minimum legible size for the Gothic and black on white characters presented in the paper should be 5pt for 20s and 1lpt for 60s if the 75% correct reading(3 correct answers in this study) was applied for the legibility criterion.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the legibility of one-syllable Korean characters with the participation of sixteen subjects. The experiment considered nine factors including age (young and old), gender (male and female), illuminance (150lx and 600lx), viewing distance (50cm and 200cm), material type (paper and LCD), typeface (Ming and Gothic), thickness (plain and bold), color contrast (black letter/white background and white letter/black background), and complexity (simple, complex, and number) to examine main effects with a $2^{6-3}\times3$ fractional factorial design. The dependent variables were minimum character size of 100% correctness, maximum character size of 0% correctness, and minimum character size of comfortable reading preference. The results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that age, illuminance, viewing distance and complexity were significant for all dependent variables, except gender which was significant only for the minimum character size of comfortable reading preference. In general, the young could see twofold smaller size letters than the elderly. The subjects could see smaller sized letters with the illuminance of 600lx and viewing distance of 50cm than 150lx and 200cm, respectively and also with numbers, simple characters, and complex characters in that order. The findings of this study could be characterized about the legibility of Korean characters and be good resources for developing its standard.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.181-188
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• 1998

한글 자의 가독도를 조사하기 위해, ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ의 14 자음과 ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅜ, ㅡ, ㅣ의 6 모음 자들로 조합된 총 98개의 ($14{\times}7$) 고딕체 글자들로 3가지 형태의 시표를 레이저 프린터로 제작했다. 시력이 1.5인 사람들로 하여금 인쇄된 글자들을 판독하게 하는 방법과, 레이저 프린터의 해상력을 이용하는 방법을 사용했다. 이들 방법으로 구해진 데이터는 글자가 판독될 수 있는 최대거리 값들과 글자의 최소크기 값들이다. 값들로부터 ㄱ자의 가독도를 1로 하는 상대적 가독도를 구하였다. 이 상대적 가독도 값들을 분석한 결과 ㄱ, ㄴ, ㅅ, ㄷ, ㅈ, ㅇ, ㅁ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ의 순서에 따라 이들 자음이 사용된 글자의 가독도가 점점 낮아 졌다. 또한, ㅣ, ㅡ, ㅏ, ㅗ, ㅓ, ㅜ의 순서에 따라 이들 모음이 사용된 글자의 가독도가 작아졌다. 그리고 글자의 가독도는 자음이 바뀜에 따른 변화가 모음자가 바뀜에 따른 변화 보다 더 컸다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.397-406
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine legible Korean font sizes within in-vehicle information systems(IVISs) in diving conditions. Background: Font legibility within IVISs is one of important causes on its' safe operations during driving. Several researches proposed some guidelines on the legible English font sizes within IVISs. On the contrary, appropriate Korean font sizes have been hardly known in spite of the typological differences between English and Korean. Therefore, more systematic researches for improving the legibility on Korean font size within IVISs have been required. Method: In this study, an experiment was performed with the following experimental factors: the existence of vibration, the color contrasts(white on black, black on white), the font types(HDR, CubeR, Gothic), and the font sizes(6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24pt). To fit the experimental conditions into real driving environments, the illuminance was controlled to 15lx by using LED lamp and the distance between IVIS and participants was kept to 70cm. Moreover, all participants took the shutter glasses for employing well-known occlusion techniques. Results: The experimental results showed that 'HDR' and 'Non-vibration + Black on white' group took the shortest response time, and decreasing slopes of the response time with increasing font sizes were slowing down at 14pt then flattened out at 22pt regardless of the existence of vibration and color contrasts. Conclusion: The minimum size for legible Korean font would be about 14pt(5.47mm) and the optimum size would be about 22pt(8.59mm). Application: The guideline on the Korean font sizes from this study will be applied to design an IVIS in the future.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2011

Safety and health related information for the proper use and handling of pesticides is usually printed on the surface of the pesticide products (bottle type or bag type) in the form of texts. But, the guidelines or standards for the appropriate presentation of the texts for the pesticide products are most vague or not practical. Thus, this study aimed to provide the preliminary guidelines for the text sizes based on the legibility experiments. Total twenty subjects from two age groups (young: n=10, old: n=10, five males and five females in each group) participated in the experiment. First, subjects read the text cards presented in the distance of 50cm from the eyes of the subjects. Eight different text card sets were prepared for different font type(thick gothic-type and fine gothic-type), thickness of font(plain and bold), and number of syllables (2 and 3 syllables). When subjects read the cards, the correctness of reading (correct or wrong) was recorded and the degree of discomfort (from 1: no discomfort at all to 4: can't read at all) was also evaluated for all the text sizes. Results showed that the character size should be 4 pt or larger for the young subjects to read at least one word correctly in all the text conditions. For the old subjects to read at least one word correctly, the character size should be five pt or larder. The average of the minimum character sizes for 100% correct answer is 6.1 pt for young subjects and 10.5 pt for old subjects, respectively.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.3444-3451
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• 2012

농약의 안전보건 정보 표시는 보통 농약병의 표면에 인쇄되어 있다. 그러나 농약의 적절한 표시를 위한 가이드라인이나 기준은 대부분 애매하거나 실용적이지 못하다. 본 연구의 목적은 시력에 따른 가독성 실험을 통하여 적절한 글자 크기의 가이드라인을 설정하는 것이다. 실험은 20대의 20명을 대상으로 근거리시력(0.6, ${\geq}0.8$), 성별, 글자체(세고딕, 중고딕), 글자의 굵기(plain, bold), 음절수(2음절, 3음절)가 농약 표시 글자의 가독성에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 가독성 평가를 위한 종속변수로는 정답률이 0%가 되는 최대글자크기, 정답률 100%가 되는 최소 글자크기, 주관적 불편도를 사용하였다. 실험 결과 가독성은 근거리 시력에 의해서만 유의한 차이를 나타냈다. 정답률이 0%가 되는 최대 글자크기는 근거리 시력 ${\geq}0.8$에서는 2pt, 0.6에서는 2~3pt로 나타났다. 정답률 100%의 최소가독 글자크기는 근거리 시력 0.6에서는 9pt, ${\geq}0.8$에서는 5.3pt로 나타났다. 근거리 시력 0.6과 ${\geq}0.8$의 시력에 따른 글자 크기별 불편도는 0.6에서는 남,녀 모두 평균 15.5 pt에서 불편도 1(읽는데 전혀 불편함이 없음)에 도달하였으나 ${\geq}0.8$에서는 남자의 경우 평균 8.5 pt, 여자는 평균 10 pt에서 불편도 1에 도달하였다. 농약 표시 글자 크기에 대한 가이드라인은 중요성이 떨어지는 정보의 경우는 9 pt 이상, '농약' 표시나 독성 표시와 같은 안전상 중요한 내용의 경우는 16 pt 이상이 적절한 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.28-36
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to research the influence of soundscape in the preference of landscape. Specifically, standards type of communication are applied to the landscape such as positive scenery and negative scenery. The spatial image was analyzed by the variables of Kaplan\`s information process model. The level of visual preferences was measured by a type of acoustic information and visual information in the landscape, and this data was analyzed by multiple regression. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; The value of landscape preference was maximum value in Type I and minimum value in Type II from all fluent of coherence, mystery, and legibility to, except complexity, and it was not different from preference. These results clearly show the influence of sounds effecting decision of landscape preference. It was different by the type of acoustic information and visual information in landscape. The results of ANOVA among types of acoustic information were differences of mean between positive sound, no sound and negative sound from coherence, mystery, and legibility to, except complexity. These variables may be the major factors which must be considered in planning and designing as the functional basis for quantitative analysis.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

목적: 본 연구는 60대 이상의 노년층을 대상으로 착색안경렌즈의 처방이 시력교정의 질에 미치는 영향을 평가하고 가장 효과적인 착색렌즈의 색상을 제시하고자 하였다. 방법: 60대 이상(평균 $71.0{\pm}6.3$세)의 50명(남17, 여33)을 대상으로 원거리 시력이 0.5 이상이 되도록 시험테를 이용하여 교정한 후 무착색, 브라운착색 및 그레이착색렌즈를 덧댐하였다. 각각 착색안경렌즈 덧댐 시의 시력은 원거리 최소가독시력 및 최소분리시력을 측정한 후 LogMAR 시력으로 환산하여 비교하였으며, 시기능은 근거리 입체시와 대비감도를 측정하여 비교하였다. 또한 대상자들의 착색안경렌즈 선호도와 시지각 및 움직임에 대한 자각증상을 설문조사하였다. 결과: 원거리 최소가독시력과 최소분리시력은 무착색렌즈의 사용 시 가장 좋았으며, 브라운착색 및 그레이착색렌즈 순으로 나타났다. 근거리 입체시, 대비감도 및 시지각은 브라운착색렌즈의 사용 시 가장 좋은 것으로 나타났다. 자각적 불편감은 그레이착색렌즈 착용 시 가장 크게 나타났으며, 대상자가 선호하는 안경렌즈는 브라운착색렌즈로 조사되었다. 결론: 이상의 결과로 착색안경렌즈의 사용으로 노년층의 시력과 시기능이 개선될 수 있으나, 시력 및 시기능의 변화가 자각적 만족도와는 반드시 일치하는 것은 아님을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구결과, 1,000 lux정도의 조도에서는 원거리 시생활이 보편화된 노년층에게는 무착색 및 브라운착색렌즈의 사용을, 근거리 작업이 많은 경우에는 브라운 및 그레이착색렌즈의 사용을 제안할 수 있겠다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2010

Texts and icons are used to deliver the safety and health information on pesticide labels. This study surveyed the standards or guidelines regarding the presentation formats of texts and icons used in pesticides. Also, the text and icon formats being used in the 50 pesticide products in Korea were investigated in the aspects of size, font (texts only), color. From the guideline survey, it was found that while the guidelines for the text fonts and colors in pesticides were suggested, there was no detailed guidelines about the text size. For the icon presentation, it was regulated that the icon size for the pesticides should be larger than $7mm{\times}7mm$, and this size was equivalent to the size when the reading distance of 28 ㎝ was applied to other two guidelines. From the sample survey of the 50 pesticides, it was found that the small text size being used in the 50 pesticides was 1mm (3pt), and this size was considered to be very difficult to be read, particularly by old people. The minimum size of the texts for the toxicity of the pesticide, the very important safety information, was found to be 1.5 mm, which is considered to be very uncomfortable to be read. The size of icons were varied from 2 to 12 mm, and the total average size was 4.6 mm. The 149 icons from a total 187 icons (80%) were smaller than the icon presentation guideline ($7mm{\times}7mm$), and the reason for the small icon size might be the small area of the label of the pesticides. Thus, more detailed guidelines for the text size and more practical guidelines for the size of icons are required.