A study of recipients' images induced by line-drawing and 3D-drawing symbols

Abstract

In this study,to compare images that recipients of symbols obtain from line-drawing and 3D-drawing symbols,we measured images elicited by symbols corresponding to verbs and attempted to select more appropriate symbols for communication in 44 adult subjects.As a result,18 of the 30 target words were judged to be more appropriately represented by 3D-drawing than line-drawing symbols.On image assessment of all symbols,a significant difference was noted in 6 of the 7 words,indicating that line-drawing symbols are more likely to give positive images than 3D-drawing symbols.