Safety icons and usability: A Peircean reanalysis

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Caldwell, Joshua ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Safety icons; Semiotics; Usability; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

REANALYSIS; SAFETY ICONS; USABILITY; USABILITY STUDIES; VISUAL INTERPRETATION; VISUAL RHETORIC;

SEMIOTICS;

EID: 70449435354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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