Applying image descriptors to the assessment of legibility in Chinese characters

Ergonomics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 825-841

  Chi, Chia Fen ^a   Cai, Dengchuan ^b   You, Manlai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese character; Font; Legibility; Stroke number

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CHARACTER SETS; STUDENTS;

IMAGE DESCRIPTORS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPUTER; ERGONOMICS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE; WRITING;

ADULT; CHINA; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 0038827137     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014013031000109214     Document Type: Article

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