DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR IN-VEHICLE ICONS

Despite the increasing reliance on visual icons to present in-vehicle information to drivers, there is a lack of standards or guidelines to aid icon design. This paper summarizes and presents a sample of the results from an on-going effort to develop effective human factors design guidelines for in-vehicle icons. So far, the project has produced 36 preliminary guidelines that address a broad range of topics in the areas of icon legibility, recognition, interpretation and evaluation. This paper summarizes 3 of the 36 preliminary guidelines; these 3 guidelines deal with the appropriate time or conditions to use icons, the use of different types of icons, and the components of an icon. These guidelines will provide in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) developers with key information regarding the use and integration of existing and new visual symbols. The final guidelines developed in this project will reflect a combination of existing empirical studies, literature reviews and icon design principles

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2000 ITS America, Washington DC Remarks: This paper presents information that was developed by Battelles Human Factors Transportation Center under contract number DTFH61-97-C-00061 to the Federal Highway Administration
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Campbell, John L
  • Carney, Cher
  • 0000-0001-6741-4433
  • Monk, Christopher A
  • Granda, Thomas M
  • Lee, John D
• Conference:
  • ITS America 10th Annual Meeting and Exposition: Revolutionary Thinking, Real Results
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2000-5-1 to 2000-5-4
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced driver information systems; Human factors; Information display systems
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00793478
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Jun 13 2000 12:00AM