Emergency signage is key to helping occupants of a building find a safe route in situations involving circulation and evacuation. This study acknowledged existing problems with interpretation of emergency signage and the fact that emergency signage is often overlooked because of which the recent years witnessed an increase in disaster incidents caused by signage misconception. Thus, the study examined interpretation factors in the current design of emergency sign age to provide a design reference for emergency signage that positively promotes accuracy of individuals’ perception of information conveyed. An examination procedure called “interpretation of direction information experiment” was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of emergency signage and multidimensional signage by evaluating a set of questionnaire responses, an additional in in-depth interview process was also included. A “descriptive response of signage meaning experiment” and a “direction selecting experiment” were additionally conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of emergency signage and multidimensional signage through stimulation of emergency evacuation tests. Data were first collected and then analyzed to indicate and identify significant points for the improvement of emergency signage by using the repeated analysis of variance (ANOVA). An analysis through the eye eye-tracking data method was also conducted. The descriptive response of signage meaning test revealed that multidimensional design approaches for emergency signage promoted a successful rate of information perception and comprehension recorded at an average of 9 94.25 %. The analyzed eye-tracking data showed that multidimensional signage positively benefited participants’ perception of directional information by decreasing the time needed to perceive the information at an average of 31.57% compared to the average time span recorded for the British format of emergency signage. The overall results indicated a design reference for signage development to improve occupants’ ability to navigate and find a designated safe location as well as assist viewers in their way finding process, respectively.

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The rise of movie streaming services has led to changes in viewing styles and viewer needs. In light of these changes, it would be useful to identify the common elements among movies that are highly praised on these platforms and, ultimately, to establish guidelines to facilitate movie production for this new environment. In this study, we performed text mining of movie reviews to this end. Further, through comparison with the elements common in poorly rated movies, we increased the reliability of our analytical results. In addition to establishing guidelines for high-quality or good movie-making, we demonstrated that movies that enjoy a certain level of praise share these guideline elements and suggested some elements that make up a good movie.

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There is a wide variety of information on the Internet, and it is vital to organize and disseminate the information that people want to know based on this information. Expressing the data in a way that people can easily understand is an important task for the media. We have developed a system that automatically converts WordPress blog entries into CG animations. By incorporating the required functionality into a WordPress theme, users can choose this theme and build a blog where readers can watch CG animations instead of reading blog entries. CG animation is created by TVML (TV Program Making Language) technology that enables to create a TV program-like animation with CG characters with synthesized voices, image data display, sound playback, and superimposing, etc. In addition to contributing to theWordPress community, which is expected to be an auxiliary function of blog services in particular. It may also function as a production tool for creating various types of CG animation, not just blog support. In this research, we have developed a functioning software application working on a PC and an Android hand-held device to visualize the blog entries. the WordPress is specifically used for our purpose as the blog system in this research. We successfully showed this in several exhibitions and also conducted a web survey to evaluate the system. This paper describes the proposed system in detail and the evaluation test.

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