The Lighting of Car Instrument Panels-Drivers' Responses to Five Colours

Galer, Margaret; Simmonds, Gordon R. W.

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“…Both had problems with red and green. (9) Osaka, in his experiments, found that saturated reds and blues created eye fatigue, especially the blues, indicating the eye was struggling to focus on either color (10).…”

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Factors to Consider When Designing Vehicles for Older Drivers

Yanik

1989

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

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As the Baby Boom generation gradually moves into its later years, that movement will become a Senior Boom that will have a dramatic effect upon the design of products entering the marketplace. To respond to this market, engineers and designers will require a good understanding and awareness of the changes that take place in vision and cognition as a result of the aging process, and how these changes affect the interaction of older adults with their vehicle systems such as controls and displays, mirrors, entry and exit, and lighting. This paper is an attempt to bring that understanding to the designer and engineer, as based upon current research.

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Factors to Consider When Designing Vehicles for Older Drivers

Yanik

1989

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

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After-effects of TFT-LCD display polarity and display colour on the detection of low-contrast objects

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Buchner

2010

Ergonomics

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Participants performed a word-non-word discrimination task within a car control display emulated on a thin film transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD). The task simulated an information read-out from a TFT-LCD-based instrument panel. Subsequently, participants performed a low-contrast object detection task that simulated the detection of objects during night-time driving. In experiment 1, words/non-words were presented black-on-white (positive polarity) or white-on-black (negative polarity). In experiments 2 and 3, display colour was additionally manipulated. A positive polarity advantage in the discrimination task was consistently observed. In contrast, positive displays interfered more than negative displays with subsequent detection. The detrimental after-effect of positive polarity displays was strong with white and blue, reduced with amber and absent with red displays. Subjective measures showed a preference for blue over red, but a slight advantage for amber over blue. Implications for TFT-LCD design are derived from the results. STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE: When using TFT-LCDs as car instrument panels, positive polarity red TFT-LCDs are very likely to lead to good instrument readability while at the same time minimising - relative to other colours - the negative effects of an illuminated display on low-contrast object detection during night-time driving.

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The Effects of Aging on Perception of Visual Displays

Poynter¹

1988

SAE Technical Paper Series

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The Lighting of Car Instrument Panels-Drivers' Responses to Five Colours

Cited by 5 publications

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Factors to Consider When Designing Vehicles for Older Drivers

Factors to Consider When Designing Vehicles for Older Drivers

After-effects of TFT-LCD display polarity and display colour on the detection of low-contrast objects

The Effects of Aging on Perception of Visual Displays

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