A Study on Influences of Control Panel Colors on Operators

Abstract

The relationships between color of control panel and operators' behavior are discussed. Color has a lot of influences on human's psychological condition. For instance, red has danger image and blue has peaceful image. Consequently, an operator's action is controlled by colors of interface devices, and it can be said that color is one of the most important factor of interface design. In this paper, guidelines of items' color on control panel are proposed, and are discussed based on Rasmussen's SRK model. By using the guideline of color design, an operator's action changes from rule base to skill base, and operator's load is reduced. In addition, some experiments are carried out in order to verify efficiencies of the guideline.