| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 工業設計學系 === 106 === Middle-aged and elderly people are the main visitors to the hospital, they have many obstacles to understanding healthcare symbols. This study focuses on "the comprehension of medical images by middle-aged and elderly people". We Invited 30 middle-aged and 30 elderly people to participate in the experiment. The purpose of this study is to find how the different types of health symbols(icons, indices, and symbols) impact on the comprehension level of middle-aged and elderly people, and the comprehension difference of three types of health symbols between middle-aged and elderly people. Exploring the difference of comprehension scores between dynamic and static health symbols among the three types, and the influences of increased information dynamic health symbol to the comprehension level. The results of this study find that:
(1) Only to the Icon category healthcare symbol, there were significant comprehension differences between the two age groups, and the middle-aged people performed better than the elderly. To the index and symbol category, there is no significant difference in the comprehension scores between the two age groups.
(2)Simple dynamic presentation does not improve the participants’ comprehension of the healthcare symbols. However, increased information dynamic presentation can significantly improve the comprehension scores.
The results of this study can be used as a reference for designers in designing digital healthcare symbols, thereby improving the comprehension of healthcare symbols for middle-aged and elderly people, facilitating their wayfinding process in health facility and helping them to more easily Arrive at the destination, and finally improve the friendliness of the health environment.
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