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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 15: RELEVANT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION DOCUMENTS (TABLES PART II)

Reference No.

ISO/IEC 80461-1

Title

Basic principles for graphical symbols for use on equipment. Part 1: Creation of graphical symbols.

Report Date

June 2001

Number of Pages

31

Author(s)

IEC subcommittee 3C: Graphical symbols for use on equipment, of IEC technical committee 3: Information structures, documentation and graphical symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic   Creation of graphical symbols
Major Headings  
  • Symbol meaning
  • Combination of graphical symbols
  • Creation principles
  • Basic pattern
  • Application of symbol originals
  • Creation procedure
  • Designation systems
Summary  

This multipart standard addresses the basic rules for creating graphical symbols for use on equipment, including line widths, form and use of arrows, negation elements, and use of the basic pattern that serves as a guideline for drawing equipment symbols. These design principles are required to be used for all graphical symbols on equipment; the standardized graphical symbols for which are found in ISO 7000 and IEC 60417.

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Reference No.

ISO/IEC 80461-2

Title

Basic principles for graphical symbols for use on equipment. Part 1: Creation of graphical symbols.

Report Date

July 15, 2001

Number of Pages

7

Author(s)

IEC subcommittee 3C: Graphical symbols for use on equipment, of IEC technical committee 3: Information structures, documentation and graphical symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic   Use of arrow in graphical symbols
Major Headings  
  • General principles
  • Definitions of arrow forms and specific meaning
  • Movement
  • Speed and acceleration
  • Special meaning of function and force
  • Dimensions
Summary  

This international standard addresses the basic rules for creating graphical symbols for use on equipment, including line widths, form and use of arrows, negation elements, and use of the basic pattern that serves as a guideline for drawing equipment symbols. These design principles are required to be used for all graphical symbols on equipment; the standardized graphical symbols for which are found in ISO 7000 and IEC 60417.

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Reference No.

ISO 9186

Title

Graphical symbols-Test methods for judged comprehensibility and for comprehension.

Report Date

April 1, 2001

Number of Pages

36

Author(s)

Technical Committee ISO/TC 145: Graphical symbols, SC 1: Public information symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic  

Methods to assess comprehensibility of graphical symbols

Major Headings  
  • Terms and definitions
  • Procedures
  • Tests using printed presentation
  • Accepting a variant as a standard graphical symbol
  • Collection of information
  • Comprehensibility judgments test
  • Comprehension test
  • Approved testing
Summary  

This international standard specifies:

  • The procedure to be used in gathering the information needed to request standardization of graphical symbols.
  • The method to be used in testing which variant of a graphical symbol is judged the most comprehensible.
  • The method to be used in testing the extent to which a variant of a graphical symbol communicates its intended message.

The purpose of this international standard is to ensure that graphical symbols, and signs using graphical symbols, are readily understood. It in no way ensures compliance with prohibitions or warnings using graphical symbols or symbol signs designed in accordance with this international standard.

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Reference No.

ISO/IEC 11581-2

Title

Information technology-User system interfaces-Icon symbols and functions. Part 2: Object icons.

Report Date

April 1, 2000

Number of Pages

31

Author(s)

Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1: Information technology, SC 35: User interfaces

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic  

Design of computer icons that represent objects

Major Headings  
  • Conceptual construction of object icons
  • Object icon requirements and recommendations
  • Icon specifications
  • Minimum information to be given when submitting an icon
Summary  

ISO/IEC 11581-2 applies to icons that are shown on a screen, that users can manipulate and interact with, and that represent data, or computer system functions. This part of ISO/IEC 11581 addresses only object icons. "Objects icons" is a term used in ISO/IEC 11581-2 to describe icons that represent functions by association with an object and that can be moved and opened. Other types of icons, listed in the foreword, are covered in other parts of the standard.

Annex A describes the information to be given when submitting new object icons for inclusion in this part of ISO/IEC 11581.

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Reference No.

ISO/IEC 11581-6

Title

Information technology-User system interfaces-Icon symbols and functions. Part 6: Action icons.

Report Date

February 1, 1999

Number of Pages

20

Author(s)

Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1: Information technology

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic  

Design of computer icons that represent objects

Major Headings  
  • Conceptual construction of action icons
  • Action icon requirements and recommendations
  • Action icon specifications
Summary  

ISO/IEC 11581-6 applies to icons that are shown on a screen, that users can manipulate and interact with, and that represent data or computer system functions. This part of ISO/IEC 11581 addresses only action icons. Action icons represent actions by association with objects that prompt the user to recall the intended actions. This part of ISO/IEC 11581 describes user interaction with and appearance of action icons on the screen. Other types of icons listed in the foreword, are covered in other parts of the standard.

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Reference No.

ISO/DIS 15008

Title

Road vehicles: Ergonomic aspects of transport information and control systems-Specifications and compliance procedures for in-vehicle visual presentation

Report Date

November 12, 2001

Number of Pages

26

Author(s)

Technical Committee ISO/TC 22, Road vehicles, Subcommittee SC 13, Ergonomics

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X   International Standard

Organization
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization Address

Case postale
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.iso.ch

General Topic  

Visual characteristics of dynamic visual displays

Major Headings  
  • Specifications and measurement methods
  • Design viewing position and illumination range
  • Luminance contrast
  • Color
  • Alphanumerical character dimensions
  • Pixel matrixes character format
  • Reflections and glare
  • Characteristics of presentation
Summary  

This international standard gives minimum specifications for the image quality of displays that contain dynamic (changeable) visual information for road vehicle drivers from an on-board Transport Information and Control System (TICS) used while the vehicle is in motion, so that those displays are legible.

The specifications described in this standard are intended to be independent of display technologies. They address mainly the perceptual components and some basic cognitive components of the visual information (e.g., character legibility and color recognition). Other factors that affect performance and comfort (such as coding, format, and dialogue characteristics) are covered in other standards.

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Reference No.

ITU-T F.910

Title

Procedures for designing, evaluating, and selecting symbols, pictograms, and icons

Report Date

February 1995

Number of Pages

7

Author(s)

ITU-T Study Group 1: Telecommunication Standardization Sector of ITU

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2.   X    Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Organization Address

Place de Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
www.itu.int

General Topic  

User-centered design and evaluation process for pictograms

Major Headings  
  • Methodology
  • General parameters of experiments
  • Other considerations
Summary  

Various national, regional, and international standards organizations are responsible for the design, evaluation, and standardization of symbols, pictograms, and icons. To coordinate the work of these standards organizations, and to optimize the designs, it is desirable to follow a well-defined methodology. This recommendation describes a framework for a common methodology to be used by the ITU-T. To the extent that other standards organizations can work within this framework, the development of important designs should progress more rapidly. A uniform methodology will minimize duplication of effort and will maximize the relevance of collected data.

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Reference No.

MUTCD

Title

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)

Report Date

June 2001

Number of Pages

7

Author(s)

National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Organization Address

400 7th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590

General Topic  

Standard practices for traffic control and devices

Major Headings  
  • General provisions
  • Guide signs
  • Markings
  • Highway traffic signals
  • Low volume rural roads
  • Work zones
  • Traffic controls for school areas
  • Traffic controls for highway/rail grade crossings
  • Traffic controls for bicycle facilities
  • Traffic controls for highway/light rail transit grade crossings
Summary  

Traffic control devices are defined as all signs, signals, markings, and other devices used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic and placed on, over, or adjacent to a street, highway, pedestrian facility, or bikeway by authority of a public agency having jurisdiction.

The material described in this edition of the MUTCD provides the transportation professional with the information needed to make appropriate decisions regarding the use of traffic control devices on streets and highways. The material in this edition is organized to better differentiate between standards that must be satisfied for the particular circumstances of a situation, guidances that should be followed for the particular circumstances of a situation, and options that may be applicable for the particular circumstances of a situation.

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Reference No.

NATO STANAG 4050

Title

Standardization agreement: Symbols in designating function of controls in transport vehicles

Report Date

May 13,1969

Number of Pages

14

Author(s)

 

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4.   X    International Standard

Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Organization Address

NATO Headquarters
Blvd Leopold III
1110 Brussels, Belgium
natodoc@hq.nato.int

General Topic  

Standard of transport vehicle control instrumentation

Major Headings  
  • Contours for functional categories
  • System of symbols designed to replace or supplement the text of instruction plates and forms for transport vehicles
Summary  

The object of this agreement is to standardize symbols to replace lettering on controls in transport vehicles for the NATO Armed Forces.

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Reference No.

SAA ADR 18/02

Title

Instrumentation

Report Date

December 1998

Number of Pages

5

Author(s)

 

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Department of Transport and Regional Services: Land Transport

Organization Address

GPO Box 594
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
www.dotrs.gov.au

General Topic  

Specifications for location and visibility of passenger vehicle visual indicators

Major Headings  
  • Visual indicators
  • Location of visual indicators
  • Visibility of visual indicators
  • Speedometers and odometers
Summary  

The function of this national standard is to specify requirements for the provision and location of certain "visual indicators." It also specifies requirements for speedometers and odometers.

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Reference No.

SAA AS 2342

Title

Development, testing, and implementation of information and safety symbols and symbolic signs

Report Date

October 12, 1992

Number of Pages

40

Author(s)

Committee MS/3, Public Information Symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Standards Association of Australia (SAA)

Organization Address

1 The Crescent
Homebush, NSW 2140
Australia

General Topic  

Development, evaluation, and adoption of symbol signs

Major Headings  
  • Determination of need for a symbol and establishment of design criteria
  • Selection and testing of graphic symbols and symbolic signs
  • Principles for the design of graphic symbols
  • Principles for the design of signs incorporating symbols
  • Siting and maintenance§ Establishment of need for a graphic symbol or symbolic sign
  • Method of collection and appropriateness assessment of symbol and symbol sign variants for comprehension and related testing
  • Comprehension and recall tests
  • Photometric and colorimetric properties of sign materials
  • Sources of potential test symbols
Summary  

This standard specifies principles and procedures for determining the need, selection, testing, and design of graphic symbols for:

  1. Equipment or parts of equipment to instruct or advise people handling the equipment as to its use and operation;

  2. Locations where people may work, assemble, or move, to give them information or instructions, such as prohibitions, warnings, rules, limits, or directional guidance; or

  3. Pictorial representations on maps, plans, drawings, illustrations, and similar documents.

It also specifies principles and procedures for the design and use of information and safety signs using these symbols.

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Reference No.

SAA AS 2899.0

Title

Public information symbol signs—Consolidated index

Report Date

September 5, 1986

Number of Pages

13

Author(s)

Committee MS/3, Public Information Symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Standards Association of Australia (SAA)

Organization Address

1 The Cresent
Homebush, NSW 2140
Australia

General Topic  

Numerical index for standardized information signs

Major Headings  
  • Numerical Index
Summary  

This standard lists the referents for standard public information symbol signs and gives the function and fields of application for each sign. It also defines terms used in this standard and on the single sheets in:

AS 2899.1 General Information Signs
AS 2899.2 Water Safety Signs
AS 2899.3 Hospital Signs
AS 2899.4 Signs for the Working Environment

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Reference No.

SAA AS 2899.1

Title

Public information symbol signs—General information signs

Report Date

September 5, 1986

Number of Pages

53

Author(s)

Committee MS/3, Public Information Symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Standards Association of Australia (SAA)

Organization Address

1 The Cresent
Homebush, NSW 2140
Australia

General Topic  

Single sheets for general information signs

Major Headings  
  • General information signs
Summary  

This standard includes black-and-white single sheets for general information signs.

Note: Many symbols are the same as those described in ISO 7001.

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Reference No.

SAE ARP 4155-A

Title

Human interface design methodology for integrated display symbology

Report Date

October 1997

Number of Pages

19

Author(s)

SAE Subcommittee G-10I, Symbology for Electronic Displays of the SAE Committee G-10, Aerospace Behavioral Engineering Technology

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Design methodology for development of symbology

Major Headings  
  • Background
  • Design Technology
Summary  

This standard describes a recommended design approach that emphasizes the fundamental relationship between symbols, the information they encode, the context within which the symbols are displayed, and the tasks being supported. While this document is aimed at aircraft displays involving dynamic control or monitoring tasks, the methodology is applicable to a wide range of symbology development situations.

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Reference No.

SAE ARP 577-C

Title

Emergency placarding-Internal and external

Report Date

March 16, 1993

Number of Pages

7

Author(s)

SAE Committee S-9, Cabin Safety Provisions

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2.   X    Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Specifications for the design of aircraft emergency placards

Major Headings  
  • Information presentation
  • Written instructions
  • Pictorial instructions
  • Minimum-size pictures and words
  • Color of placard and background
  • Location
  • Warnings
Summary  

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) provides criteria for the development and standardization of placards containing easily understood signs, symbols, and/or instructions for locating and operating exits and emergency equipment that might be used or operated by cabin occupants and rescue personnel under emergency conditions. In addition, this ARP gives guidance in the selection and development of warning labels. The placards are intended to be seen and understood by occupants inside and, in the case of external exit placards, by persons outside the airplane.

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Reference No.

SAE J1048

Title

Emergency placarding-Internal and external

Report Date

March 1980

Number of Pages

16

Author(s)

SAE Human Factors Engineering Committee

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Standardized symbols for vehicle instrumentation

Major Headings  
  • Designation and illustration of symbols
Summary  

This standard specifies the symbols, that is, conventional signs, with which certain controls, indicators and tell-tales of a road vehicle are to be provided to ensure their identification and facilitate their utilization.

It also indicates the colors of possible optical tell-tales, which warn the driver of the operation or malfunctioning of the devices and equipment connected to the corresponding controls.

This standard is applicable to those controls that are fitted on the instrument panel, or in the immediate vicinity of the driver.

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Reference No.

SAE J115

Title

Safety signs

Report Date

February 1995

Number of Pages

10

Author(s)

SAE Human Factors Technical Committee SC2 - Machine Displays and Symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Guidelines for signage symbols

Major Headings  
  • Sign format
  • Letter style and size
  • Sign placement
  • Expected life and insurance
  • Pictorials
  • Guidelines for creating pictorials
Summary  

This SAE standard establishes signal words, color combinations, letter sizes, and durability requirements for permanently and temporarily affixed safety signs for off-road, self-propelled work machine categories of construction, general purpose industrial, forestry, agricultural tractors, and specialized mining machinery as defined in SAE J1116. This document is suitable for application to tools, machines, and machinery used in the specified categories.

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Reference No.

SAE J1362

Title

Graphical symbols for operator controls and displays on off-road self-propelled work machines

Report Date

July 1997

Number of Pages

81

Author(s)

SAE Human Factors Technical Committee SC2 - Machine Displays and Symbols

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Standardized symbols for off-road machinery

Major Headings  
  • Symbol
  • General
  • Color
  • Development of new symbols
  • Stanardized symbology
  • Guidelines for development and evaluation of graphical symbols
Summary  

SAE J1362 presents graphical symbols for use on operator controls and other displays on construction, general-purpose industrial, agricultural, forestry, and specialized mining categories of off-road self-propelled work machines, as defined in SAE J1116. Symbols for agricultural equipment other than the basic agricultural tractor (for example, combine harvesters, cotton harvesters, forage harvesters, balers, and sprayers) are covered by ASAE S304 and are therefore excluded from the scope of SAE J1362.

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Reference No.

SAE J2217

Title

Photometric guidelines for instrument panel displays that accommodate older drivers

Report Date

October 1991

Number of Pages

6

Author(s)

SAE Mature Driver Standards Committee

Type of Report

  1.   X     Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3. ____ Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Provides introductory information that should be considered when setting photometric guidelines for instrument panel displays that are designed to accommodate the older driver.

Major Headings  
  • Luminance contrast
  • Color usage
  • Color Preference
  • Brightness preference
  • Gloss
Summary  

Physical parameters that influence the legibility of an instrument panel display include: letter/graphic size; the luminance and color difference between graphics and background; the observer's luminance adaptation level; and the level of the glare present. Several aspects of visual functioning deteriorate as part of the normal aging process. These include: a reduction in luminance and color-contrast sensitivity; an increase in sensitivity to glare; a reduction in visual accommodation capacity; and a reduction in the sensitivity to light. This SAE information report provides introductory information that should be considered when setting photometric guidelines for instrument panel displays that are designed to accommodate the older driver.

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Reference No.

SAE J2402

Title

Road vehicles: Symbols for controls, indicators, and tell-tales

Report Date

June 1997

Number of Pages

18

Author(s)

SAE Controls and Displays Standards Committee

Type of Report

  1. ____  Technical Report
  2. ____ Guidelines
  3.   X    Standard
  4. ____ International Standard

Organization
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE)

Organization Address

SAE World Headquarters
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096-0001
www.sae.org

General Topic  

Standard symbols for vehicle instrumentation.

Major Headings  
  • General
  • Color
  • Designation and illustration of symbols
Summary  

This SAE standard establishes the symbols (i.e., conventional signs) for use of 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

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