BraiWe characters and letters were presented to the senses of touch and vision of sighted observers. The optical stimuli were subjected to low-pass spatial filtering to the degree that visual spatial resolution closely matched tactile spatial resolution (re the size of characters presented). In one experiment, three sets of braille characters and five sets of Roman letters, varying in typograph...

This study examined the legibility of information presented on head-up displays (HUDs) for automotive application as a function of background scene complexity, the position of the HUD within field of view relative to the background scene, and the perceptual capacity of the perceiver. Groups of field-dependent and field-independent subjects viewed video footage from the perspective of following ...

The objective of this article is to present the established components with regard to the visual quality and legibility of Isfahan city according to Lynch’s theory. Data was gathered in Isfahan mainly by way of observation and interviews. Additional information was obtained from historical data and urban documents. In the opinion of the citizens, the Zayandehrood River, as a natural urban compo...

The adoption of mobile devices has been growing fast. Presently, the most challenging issues for mobile devices to access Web are power consumption due to the network activity, content navigation and the legibility of the rendering due to the screen size constraint. The existing content formatting and rendering technologies for mobile devices are limited. In this paper, we propose an architectu...

To contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of human wayfinding behaviors in complex buildings, we propose a framework that incorporates the impact of critical factors from both the environment and humans. The influence of the environment is summarized through the concept of environmental legibility, an integration of different space syntax methods that addresses visibility, connectivit...

In the poetry creation, poets use many different writing techniques. This paper expounds the image expressions in British love poems and lyrics from four aspects: description, symbolism, figure of speech and personification. Man has been singing for love since written language was invented. Love has been the eternal subject theme of poems and become perpetual singing. Many poets also worship na...

The purpose of the research was to study changes in handwriting legibility among kindergarten, first- and second-grade students in response to the Size Matters curricular-based handwriting program. A two-group pre-post-test design was implemented at two public schools with half of the classrooms assigned to receive the Size Matters program and the other continuing to receive standard instructio...

Personification of interface agents has been speculated to have several advantages, such as a positive effect on agent credibility and on the perception of learning experience. However, important questions less often addressed so far are what effect personification has on more objective measures, such as comprehension and recall, and furthermore, under what circumstances this effect (if any) oc...

We introduce an approach for classifying a deformed letter from the English alphabet based on its legibility. Given an image of a deformed letter d, our method proposes the use of the filtered medial axis (i.e. strokes) as its simplified representation, from which we can compute a feature vector. Based on the anatomy of the letter d we identify the strokes as: ascender, descender and counter. F...