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Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations

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Publication Number: FHWA-RD-03-065
Date: September 2004

In-Vehicle Display Icons and Other Information Elements: Volume I

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CHAPTER 16: INDEX

A

Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS), 2-7, 12-1
Appropriateness Ranking Test, 7-6, 12-1
Audio signals, ratings of, 6-4
Auditory
  icons, 6-1
  icons, design of, 6-12
  information, 6-2,
  messages, examples of, 6-14
  presentation of in-vehicle information, 6-1
  signal, 6-4
  signals, perceived urgency of, 6-16
Augmented signage information icons, 8-3
Augmenting
  icons with auditory information, 6-2
Automated cruise control devices icons, 8-5
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), 12-1
Automatic Speech Recognition systems, design guidelines for, 6-18
 

B

 

C

Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), 12-2
Collection, Icon, 8-1
Collision avoidance information icons, 8-5
Commercial vehicle operations (CVO), 12-2
Commercial vehicle operations (CVO) information icons, 8-10
Color
  effects on icon legibility, 3-10
  enhancing icon interpretation with, 5-12
Comprehension/Recognition Test, 7-8
Contrast
  within an icon, 3-4
  equation for determining color, 3-10
Conveying
  effect of actions with icons, 5-6
  system status with icons, 5-10
  urgency with icons, 5-14

 

D

Department of Transportation (DOT), 1-5, 12-2
Design guideline, 1-3
Design of
auditory icons, 6-12
earcons, 6-10
simple tones, 6-6
speech messages, 6-14
prohibition symbols, 4-10
Design tool, 10-1
sensory modality, 10-1
steps for using, 10-2
Detail, level of, 4-4
Display modality, 10-3
rules for determining, 10-3
Driver-vehicle interface (DVI), 12-2
 

E

 
Earcons, 6-10
design of, 6-10
method for constructing, 6-10
Effect of actions, conveying with icons, 5-6
Equation
  effects of color on legibility, 11-2
  for appropriate luminance uniformity, 11-1
  for determining appropriate contrast, 11-1
  for determining appropriate size of components, 11-1
  for determining color contrast, 3-10
  perceived urgency of auditory signals, 11-2
Equations, list of, 11-1
Evaluation approaches, symbol, 7-12
Evaluation procedures for in-vehicle icons, 7-2
Examples
  Schematic, 5-6, 5-8, 5-12, 5-14,
 

F

 
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), 12-3
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), 12-3
Field of view (FOV), 12-3
Flash rate, 4-8, 12-3
Font for symbols, 3-8
foot lambert (fl), 12-3
Format, two-page, 1-1

 

G

General navigation system information icons, 8-12
Guideline, design, 1-3
Guidelines, how to use, 1-1
 

H

Head-Up Display (HUD), 12-3
Height of symbols, 3-6
 

I

Icon Collection, 8-1
Icon
  composition of an, 2-10
  comprehension, sequence of, 2-12
  contrast within an, 3-4
  design, 2-1
  design, perceptual principles of, 4-6
  interpretation, 5-1
  interpretation, enhancing with color, 5-12
  interpretation, enhancing with text labels, 5-2
  interpretation, enhancing with shape, 5-16
  legibility, 3-1
  luminance uniformity within an, 3-2
  recognition, 4-1
Icon components, appropriate size of, 3-6
Icons
  auditory, 6-4
  auditory, design of, 6-10
  augmented signage information, 8-3
  augmenting with auditory information, 6-2
  automated cruise control devices, 8-5
  collision avoidance information, 8-5
  commercial vehicle operations (CV0) information, 8-10
  conveying effect of actions with, 5-6
  conveying system status with, 5-10
  conveying urgency with, 5-14
  evaluation procedures for in-vehicle, 7-2
  flashing, use of, 4-8
  general navigation systems information, 8-12
  identifying as part of a group, 5-8
  motorist services information, 8-12
  routing and navigation information, 8-34
  safety/warning information, 8-40
  ways to use, 2-6
  when to use, 2-4
  visual, 2-8
Identifying icons
  as part of a group, 5-8
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 12-4
Interface, driver-vehicle (DVI), 12-2
International Standards Organization (ISO), 1-1, 15-, 12-4
Interpretation of icons, 5-1
  enhancing with color, 5-12
  enhancing with shape, 5-16
  enhancing with text labels, 5-2
In-vehicle icons
  development process for, 2-2
In-Vehicle Information System (IVIS), 12-4

 

J

K

L

Labels, text, 3-8, 5-2
  composition of, 5-4
  designing effective, 3-8
Legibility
  icon, 3-1
  effects of color on, 3-10
Level of
  detail, 4-4
  realism, 4-2
Luminance uniformity of icons, 3-2
 

M

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), 12-5
Matching Test, 7-10
Messages, speech, 6-14
  design of, 6-14
Motorist services information icons, 8-12
 

N

 

O

Overview of procedures for evaluating in-vehicle icons, 7-2
 

P

Perceptual principles of icon design, 4-6
Perceived urgency of auditory signals, 6-16
Production test, 7-4
Prohibition symbols, design of, 4-10

 

Q

 

R

Rank order data, analysis of, 9-1
Rating system, 1-3
  based on experimental data, 1-3
  based on expert judgment, 1-3
Ratings
  audio signals, 6-4
Realism, level of, 4-2
Recognition, icon, 4-1
Routing and navigation icons, 8-34
 

S

Safety/warning information icons, 8-40
Selection of
  colors for coding visual displays, 3-10, 5-12
Sensory modality design tool, 10-1
Sensory modality for presenting messages, 10-3
Shape, enhancing icon interpretation with, 5-16
Sign information, 8-3
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), 12-6
Signals, audio, ratings of, 6-4
Simple tones, 6-4
  design of, 6-6
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 1-5, 12-5
Spacing of symbols, 3-8, 5-8
Speech messages, 6-4
  design of, 6-14
Strokewidth-to-height ratio of symbols, 3-8, 12-7
Symbol
  color, 3-10
  contrast, 3-4
  contrast, equation for, 11-1
  evaluation approaches, 7-12
  font, 3-8
  height, 3-6
  height, equation for, 11-1
  luminance uniformity, 3-2
  luminance uniformity, equation for, 11-1
  prohibition, 4-10
  spacing, 3-8, 5-8
  strokewidth-to-height ratio, 3-8
  width-to-height ratio, 3-8
System, rating, 1-3
System status, conveying with icons, 5-10

 

Q

 

R

Rank order data, analysis of, 9-1
Rating system, 1-3
  based on experimental data, 1-3
  based on expert judgment, 1-3
Ratings
  audio signals, 6-4
Realism, level of, 4-2
Recognition, icon, 4-1
Routing and navigation icons, 8-34
 

S

Safety/warning information icons, 8-40
Selection of
  colors for coding visual displays, 3-10, 5-12
Sensory modality design tool, 10-1
Sensory modality for presenting messages, 10-3
Shape, enhancing icon interpretation with, 5-16
Sign information, 8-3
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), 12-6
Signals, audio, ratings of, 6-4
Simple tones, 6-4
  design of, 6-6
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 1-5, 12-5
Spacing of symbols, 3-8, 5-8
Speech messages, 6-4
  design of, 6-14
Strokewidth-to-height ratio of symbols, 3-8, 12-7
Symbol
  color, 3-10
  contrast, 3-4
  contrast, equation for, 11-1
  evaluation approaches, 7-12
  font, 3-8
  height, 3-6
  height, equation for, 11-1
  luminance uniformity, 3-2
  luminance uniformity, equation for, 11-1
  prohibition, 4-10
  spacing, 3-8, 5-8
  strokewidth-to-height ratio, 3-8
  width-to-height ratio, 3-8
System, rating, 1-3
System status, conveying with icons, 5-10

 

T

Test
  Appropriateness Ranking, 7-6
  Comprehension/Recognition, 7-8
  Matching, 7-10
  Production, 7-4
Text labels, 3-8, 5-2, 5-4
  composition of, 5-4
  designing effective, 3-8
Tones, simple, 6-4
  design of, 6-6
Transportation, Department of (DOT), 1-5, 12-2
Types of visual icons, 2-8
 

U

Urgency, conveying with icons, 5-14
Urgency, perceived, of auditory signals, 6-16
 

V

Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD), 12-8
Visual angle, 3-6
Visual Display Terminal (VDT), 12-8
Visual displays, selection of colors for coding, 3-10, 5-12
Visual icons, types of, 2-8
 

W

Width-to-height ratio for symbols, 3-8, 12-7
 

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Y

 

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