ABSTRACT
Safety management in hospital
environment usually includes departmental
layout and facilities planning. Designing
information signs is a critical task for creating
a friendly and safety environment. Very few
hospitals used symbols to represent the various
facilities in their own hospitals in Taiwan. This
paper reports on an ongoing project aimed at
evaluating and designing symbolic information
signs for hospital environment. In this study,
first, a set of hospital graphic symbols of a
certain symbol-design company was selected.
Then, a matching test was conducted to obtain
the correct matching rates and to build the
original and revised confusion matrix. Finally,
improvements were further made by the
effectiveness ratings for alternative
pictographs. For those poor-comprehended
symbols, redesign process will be
implemented to enhance comprehensibility.
Keywords: Safety hospital environment;
Hospital symbol design; Graphic symbols;
Symbolic information signs
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