• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2013

PURPOSES : This research is to analyze the influence in terms of misreading rate and legibility time for drivers when condensation occurs on the road signs. METHODS : In this research, the dew occurred road signs provided to drivers to measure legibility time and misreading rate to compare with normal road sign. In order to identify the difference of legibility time between normal road sign and dew occurred road sign, the T-test and ANOVA test were used. And the vision system was used to recognize the region of dew occurrence on the road sign, then the brightness of dew occurrence region on the road sign was changed to check the misreading rate of drivers according to the change rate of brightness. RESULTS : The legibility times were measured 2.65s for normal road sign and 4.08s for dew occurrence road sign and misreading rates were measured 2.8% for normal road sign, 21.7% for dew occurrence road sign.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.15-24
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to provide ergonomic research data for the redesign of the car license plate in Korea. Several alternatives having various combinations of fonts, stroke-width ratios, color contrasts, and arrays were considered in order to find the best one in terms of the reading-distance and the misreading-rate. Experiments investigating the reading-distance, misreading-rates were conducted. In addition, the alternatives were tested in a real driving situation. The results can be summarized as follows : The typography having mixed type numeric forms with quasi-Gothic and NAMEL, stroke-width ratio of 1:7 .approx. 1: 8, the black on yellow contrast showed a good reading-distance. The array with Hangul(showing territorial office and use-sign) at the upper row and 6 mumbers ( showing car class-sign and serial number) at the lower row showed relatively low misreading-rate.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 1988

The purpose of this study is to provide basic research data on the readability of the car number license plate in Korea by experimental procedure. This study is performed by the combination of color contrasts, character forms, and stroke widths. Additionally it is focused on the distance of distinct vision and misreading rate. The results of the this study are as follows: First, as to the color contrasts, the plate which has black on yellow contrast has better readability than current contrast between white and green (white character on green plate, vice versa). Second, as the character forms, it is showed that Quasigothic and NAMEL types have less misreading rates by 42.86% and 42.15%, respectively, than current Gothic type, and they also increase distance of distant vision by 4 meter. Third, as to the stroke widths, it is showed that 12 milli-meter and 14 milli-meter of stroke widths have less misreading rates by 63.94% and 65.33 %, respectively, than current 6 milli-meter of stroke width.

• 산업공학
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.296-301
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• 2001

The focus of this study is to redesign the Korean license plate by comparing the USA's plate with European plate formed by 1-line system in order to increase a read rate of Korea license plate. And we have compared the read rate of the new design license plate with that of the present license plate and that of the license plate studied so far. As an experimental method (used in a precedent research), we use three kinds of methods that are the measurement of the read-distance, the measurement reading-rate under the short-term exposure and the measurement of the reading-rate when driving. First, three kinds of measurements for plates of five nations are performed. Then we redesign the new Korean license plate under the base of read rates obtained by five nation's plate. As alternatives, we choose five license plates. Those alternatives are the redesigned license plate, the present license plate, the license plate studied so far, and two types of eternity license plates made by the Korea Transport Institute. When we compare results of the read-distance, there is no significant in term of different the read-distance between the alternatives. But there is a significant difference in term of the misreading-rate and the read-rate when diving. Therefore, it is necessary to redesign the present license plates because of a high misreading-rate.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2006

본 연구의 목적은 표지 내부의 글자간 여백률에 따라 이용자가 이를 가독하는데 소요되는 시간의 차이를 증명함으로써, 경제적인 표지 규격을 산정하는데 활용하고자 수행되었다. 이를 위해, 6개의 다른 여백률을 가진 표지군을 대상으로 가독시간에 대한 차이를 규명하기 위해 실내 모의실험을 시행하였다. 또한 실험결과를 토대로 하여 이용자의 오독률을 낮추기 위한 주요 요인을 찾아내기 위해 Binary Logit 모형을 개발하였다. 모형에 의하면, 가독성을 향상시키기 위해서는 도로표지의 단순한 크기의 확대뿐만이 아닌, 표지판 규격과 내부글자 크기와의 적정 조합에 의해 결정되는 여백률이 중요하다는 사실을 규명하였다. 본 연구는 도로표지와 글자의 규격에 따라 결정되는 여백률이 이용자의 가독성에 주는 영향을 정량적으로 증명하는데 그 의의가 있으며, 추후 표지의 적정 규격을 결정하는데 있어 유용한 접근방법으로 활용될 것이다

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권2D호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2008

고령인구의 운전참여 비율이 급증하는 시점에서 시력 및 운전판단 능력이 떨어지는 고령운전자가 안전하게 운행할 수 있도록 하기 위해서는 고령운전자를 위한 도로교통환경의 정비가 무엇보다 중요하다. 도로교통 안전시설물 중에서 가장 먼저 생각할 수 있는 것은 도로표지로, 고령운전자가 도로표지를 잘 알아볼 수 있도록 설치할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 고령운전자가 도로표지판의 지명개수에 대해서 어떻게 반응하는지, 또한 연령대별로 어느 정도 차이가 나는지를 실험하기 위해서 다양한 연령층(20대~70대)을 확보하여 실험을 수행하였다. 이때 사용된 장비는 표지판의 내용을 완벽하게 주시했는지를 알 수 있는 안구운동분석기와 도로현실을 최대한 반영한 가상 도로주행시뮬레이터를 사용하였다. 연구내용은 고령운전자에 대한 속도변화, 판독소요시간 분석, 오독률 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 각 구간에서 연령대별 판독과정에 따른 속도변화를 살펴보면, 전체적으로 연령이 높을수록 속도는 낮은 경향을 나타냈다. 연령대별 평균 판독소요시간 분석에서 회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 비표준화계수를 살펴보면 연령이 증가할수록 판독소요시간이 0.106초씩 증가하였다. 그리고 Logistic Model을 이용하여 연령별 지명개수에 따른 오독률을 분석한 결과, 5% 미만의 오독률을 고려하였을 때 고령자의 경우에는 지명개수가 4개 이하가 가장 바람직한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 도로교통환경에서 보호받아야할 고령자에게 도로표지판의 적정 지명개수를 제시함으로써 도로교통안전에 도움이 될 것으로 본다. 또한 향후 각종 도로교통표지 설계시 안전성을 제고하는 기법 개발에 활용 및 기여할 것이다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to determine the economical standard of road signs by verifying the difference of driver's recognition and reaction time according to the space rate of letters on the road signs. For this reason, indoor simulations was conducted to confirm difference of recognition and reaction time on six sign-targets having different space rate. Also, a negative binomial regression model was used to find the main factors which could lower the rate of misreading. For this model, increasing of legibility of sign is not only simple enlargement of sign, but also suitable match of letters and sign. The result of this study is capable of verifying the importance of the space rate in road signs, and being utilized as a effective method to determine the standard of the road signs.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.858-865
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• 2015

The study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of current nutrition labeling of processed foods and examine awareness among university students of nutrition information given current nutrition labels, and also awareness of the one-serving size of snacks that come in differently sized packages. A total of 100 students in Chungbuk, Korea participated in this study. About 60% of the subjects knew about nutrition labeling; however, a very small percentage (11%) of the subjects reported an experience of being educated about nutrition labeling. Also, just 32% of the students checked nutrition labels when they purchased processed foods. When understanding of nutrition information on labels of snacks in differently sized packaging was tested, over 80% of the subjects understood nutrition information accurately. Five different package sizes were studied. Of these 5, packages containing about 200% of one standard serving showed the highest rate of misunderstanding of total energy contents per container. Interestingly, the students most strongly preferred containers that contained 300% of one standard serving. From these results, we conclude that students consider the current recommendation for a serving size to be small, which may be related to misreading of nutrition labels of snacks that come in packages containing less than 300% of one standard serving size. To improve accurate understanding of nutrition labels of snacks, total package labels or dual column labels on packages containing less than 300% of one standard serving size should be considered.