Pictograms design for Diversity-2

Relationship between comprehension of Human-Forms Pictogram and adaptive behavior of people with intellectual disabilities and ASD

Abstract

In this study, we researched the comprehension of seven types of human-shaped pictograms, which are the basic form of pictograms, for 30 people with intellectual disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders. Furthermore, we aimed to clarify what kind of individual factors influence the intelligibility of pictograms, to clarify the relationship between the daily activity ability necessary for social fulfillment and the intelligibility of human-shaped pictograms, and to obtain suggestions about pictograms that are easy to learn. The results suggest that pictograms in comic form, which are modeled after the pictograms supervised by Rudolf Modley in the 1930s and 1940s in the U.S., are significantly easier to understand and may encompass diversity in terms of comprehension. Furthermore, it was suggested that the pictogram in comic form is a pictogram that is easy to learn and includes "daily life skills" such as "community life" and "personal independence" among the daily activity skills of individuals, which can increase comprehension through learning.