Slowing Cars with Road Signs (11-09-22)
Vlakveld and teammates studied how to slow drivers using road signs.
Vlakveld and teammates studied how to slow drivers using road signs.
Researchers investigated how to encourage people to maintain desired interpersonal distances via signage.
Finding our way from one place to another can be a physical and mental challenge. Cognitive scientists have extensively researched how architecture, interior design, and signage can support pleasant journeys toward our intended destinations.
A comprehensive overview of signage design fundamentals
Trash-related signage design affects trash-sorting behavior.
Want to encourage people to walk more quickly?
Want people to purchase good-for-them produce?
Digital displays are more effective in some retail environments than others.
Researchers continue to research gender and spatial thinking and their findings are applicable when wayfinding aids are being developed.
Signs tell us what we should do and how we should do it. Sometimes the messages that we “read” from them are consistent with the objectives of the people who’ve designed the signs and other times they’re not. What distinguishes effective signs from ineffective ones?