Users' Hazard Perceptions of Warning Components: An Examination of Colors and Symbols

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 55-58

  Smith Jackson, Tonya L ^a   Wogalter, Michael S ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE THEORY; GLOBALIZATION; HAZARD RATINGS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HAZARDS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842685880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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