The Visibility of Symbolic Highway Signs Can Be Increased among Drivers of All Ages
Visibility and comprehension of standard text, standard symbolic, and improved symbolic highway signs were compared among young, middle-aged, and elderly observers. The average distance at which standard symbolic signs could be identified was about two times that of text signs for all three age grou...
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| description | Visibility and comprehension of standard text, standard symbolic, and improved symbolic highway signs were compared among young, middle-aged, and elderly observers. The average distance at which standard symbolic signs could be identified was about two times that of text signs for all three age groups. The visibility distances of the improved symbolic signs, which were designed using an optical blur (i.e., low-pass) approach in order to avoid higher spatial frequencies, exceeded those of both text and standard symbolic signs. Visibility distance was decreased significantly among older drivers on some signs but not others. There were no significant age differences in the comprehension of symbolic signs. Acuity, a good predictor of visibility distance of both text and standard symbolic signs, was only weakly related to the visibility distance of the improved symbolic signs. These findings demonstrate that low-pass symbolic signs have significant advantages in visibility over their text counterparts for all drivers. |
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| subjects | Acuity Adult Age differences Aged Aging - psychology Applied psychology Attention Automobile Driving - psychology Biological and medical sciences Discrimination Learning Distance Perception Drivers Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Geriatrics Humans Male Middle Aged Older people Pattern Recognition, Visual Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Size Perception Space life sciences Traffic signs Transportation. City planning Visibility Visual Acuity |
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