Letter legibility for signs and other large format applications

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1443-1447

  Garvey, Philip M ^a   Zineddin, Abdulilah Z ^a   Pietrucha, Martin T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FONTS; STANDARD HIGHWAY SIGN ALPHABETS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; VISION;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EID: 0442294449     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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