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

• Safety sign colors and formats
• Sign design/layout
• Sign color specifications
• Symbols/pictorials
• Letter style and size
• Sign finish
• Sign placement
• Illumination

This standard establishes requirements for a uniform visual system of identification related to potential hazards in the environment. It provides for the design, application, and use of signs and placards employing this visual alerting system.

• Symbol types and colors
• Graphic design considerations
• Symbol selection criteria
• Symbol examples
• References
• Principles and guidelines for graphical design of hazard symbols
• General procedures for evaluating candidate symbols
• Symbol examples not meeting comprehension testing criteria for acceptance

This standard provides general criteria for the design, evaluation, and use of safety symbols to identify and warn against specific hazards, and to provide information to avoid personal injury.

• Sign classifications
• Sign or label format
• Safety sign and label colors
• Letter style and size
• Sign and label placement
• Expected life and maintenance
• Symbols/pictorials
• References
• Guidelines for increasing recognition of safety label components
• Principles and guidelines for the design of product safety signs and labels

This standard sets forth performance requirements for the design, application, use, and placement of safety signs and labels intended to identify potential hazards for people using, operating, servicing, or in proximity to, a wide variety of products. A product safety sign or label should alert people to a specific hazard, the degree of level of hazard seriousness, the probable consequence of involvement with the hazard, and how the hazard can be avoided.

• General
• Color
• Designation and illustration of symbols

This international standard establishes the symbols (conventional signs) for use on controls, indicators, and tell-tales of a road vehicle to ensure identification and facilitate use.

It also indicates the colors of possible optical tell-tales that inform the driver of either correct operation or malfunctioning of the related devices.

Note: Same as ISO 2575

• Symbols

This ETSI Guide (EG) presents a list of the definitions, abbreviations, and symbols used in the documents prepared by the ETSI Technical Committee for Human Factors (TC-HF).

The purpose of this EG is to give guidance to TC-HF rapporteurs in the preparation of their documents, and to enhance the usability of these documents through the use of consistent terminology. The definitions, abbreviations and symbols given are not intended to be exclusive. Other definitions, abbreviations, and symbols different from those given here may be found in some TC-HF documents. However, the definitions in this technical report are generally to be preferred.

The intended users of this EG include:

• ETSI TC-HF.
  
• Other ETSI TCs and STCs.
  
• User groups

• Appropriate use of graphical symbols
• Selection of graphical symbols
• Development of new graphical symbols
• Evaluation

This document provides a framework for the development, evaluation, and selection of graphical symbols for application with telecommunications on terminals (on telecommunications equipment and for telecommunications functionality of human-computer interfaces, e.g. on keyboards and screens), within telecommunications services (e.g., to denote the availability of and access to a telecommunications service), as well as in printed materials (e.g., user guides and directories).

The document is applicable to relevant factors including:

• Appropriate use of graphical symbols.
  
• Development of new graphical symbols for specific areas.
  
• Evaluation of graphical symbols using the ETSI Multiple Index Approach (MIA)

Symbols for graphical programming or description languages are not included in the scope of this document.

• Introduction
• Evaluation pictograms by multiple indices
• Structure of the MIA questionnaire
• Analysis
• Making a decision based on the results
• The special case of testing one pictogram set only
• Conclusion

This ETR describes the MIA method for evaluating pictograms. This method has been developed, tested, and employed in the context of an ETSI (TC Human Factors) study on pictograms for basic videophone functions and the examples given are taken from this study. This method has been found to be suitable as a general testing method for pictograms from all areas. The method described here takes the form of a questionnaire test, but it can be administered by other means as well (e.g., on a personal computer).

The main purpose of a pictogram evaluation study using MIA is to collect data and identify the best suited pictograms from a number of proposed pictograms.

• General
• The ETSI study of pictograms for point-to-point videophone functions
• Method
• Results
• Discussion of the results
• The recommendation of pictograms for point-to-point videotelephony
• The post-test

This ETSI Technical Report (ETR) gives the results of an evaluation study of pictograms for basic videotelephony functions.

Seven pictogram sets, each containing candidate pictograms for the seven basic videophone functions, were empirically evaluated with the aim of identifying the most suitable pictogram set. Data for this study were collected in eight European countries from more than 650 respondents. The results of the study lead to the recommendation of a combined set of pictograms.

The Multiple Index Approach to the evaluation of pictograms is described in detail in ETR 070 (see page 14-9). The seven recommended pictograms are the content of ETS 300 375 (see page 14-11).

• Scope
• Normative references
• Definitions
• Pictograms for point-to-point telephony
• ETSI pictograms for the eight videophone functions

This ETS defines pictograms for representing eight point-to-point videotelephony functions.

1. 1) Videophone / telephone
2. 2) Videophone / camera on/off
3. 3) Videophone / microphone on/off
4. 4) Videophone / selfview on/off
5. 5) Videophone / stillpicture on/off
6. 6) Videophone / document camera on/off
7. 7) Videophone / handsfree on/off
8. 8) Videophone / loudspeaker on/off

• Definitions
• Requirements
• Location
• Identification
• Illumination
• Conditions

This standard specifies requirements for the location, identification, and illumination of motor vehicle controls and displays.

The purpose of this standard is to ensure the accessibility and visibility of motor vehicle controls and displays and to facilitate their selection under daylight and nighttime conditions, in order to reduce the safety hazards caused by the diversion of the driver's attention from the driving task and by mistakes in selecting controls.

• General
• Color
• Symbol and descriptions

This international standard establishes symbols (i.e., conventional signs) for use on controls, indicators, and tell-tales of a road vehicle to ensure identification and facilitate use.

It also indicates the colors of possible optical tell-tales that inform the driver of either correct operation or malfunctioning of the related devices.

Note: Also publisher under

• BS AU 143f (British Standards Institute)
• SAE 2042 (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Report date reflects most recent full draft

• Admendment 1 published March 22, 2001
• Admendment 4 published August 2, 2001

• Safety colors and contrast colors
• Geometeric form and meaning of safety signs
• Design of graphic symbols
• Layout of safety designs
• Supplementary signs
• Colorimetric and photometric properties of materials
• Examples of safety signs

This international standard prescribes safety colors and safety signs for the purposes of preventing accidents and health hazards and meeting emergencies.

• Numerical index and summary of public information symbols
• Compilation of single sheets

Report date reflects most recent full draft.

• Amendment 1 published June 1993

• Development of public information sysmbols
• Visual design criteria
• Sign layout

This technical report recommends procedures to be followed and sets forth the essential technical criteria that should be taken into account when developing or considering the use of graphical symbols as a means of visual pictorial communication.

The field of application is mainly in public areas, but the recommendations of this technical report concerning visual design criteria can equally be applicable to perception problems in other areas where graphical symbols are used as the means of communication.