BACKGROUND Consumer and patient participation proved to be an effective approach for medical pictogram design, but it can be costly and time-consuming. We proposed and evaluated an inexpensive approach that crowdsourced the pictogram evaluation task to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers, who are usually referred to as the "turkers". OBJECTIVE To answer two research questions: (1) Is the t...

abstract:- introduction: pesticides continue to be used in the farming industry despite to compelling evidence of their ill effects purely because of economic reasons. time and again attempts have been made to help farmers understand these risk. pesticide labels and  pictograms have been enforces as a means to propagate this risk information to the farmers in a simple and effective way. this hy...

abstract background: hazardous pesticides continue to be used in the farming industry purely because of economic reasons. farmers need to understand this risk. pesticide labels and pictograms were enforced to propagate this risk information to the farmers in a simple way. however, their effectiveness has not been evaluated in india. this study attempts to evaluate the efficacy of these labels a...

Pesticide companies and regulators in developing countries use the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) recommended pictograms on pesticide labels to communicate risk information based on toxicological and environmental risk assessment data. The pesticide label not only is often the only access people have to pesticide risk information, but also in many countries is a legally...

Pictograms (icons) are ubiquitous in visual communication, but creating the best icon is not easy: users may wish to see a variety of possibilities before settling on a final form, and they might lack the ability to draw attractive and effective pictograms by themselves. We describe a system that synthesizes novel pictograms by remixing portions of icons retrieved from a large online repository...

The purpose of this study is to apply digital city concept for the development of a pictogram system for natural disaster reduction. Long lasting and tangible achievement of IDNDR is needed which may be used in all over the world for many coming generations. As Neurath said “Words divide, pictures unite”, pictograms could be a powerful communication tool as well as an educational tool to improv...

PictNet is an online pictogram communication system designed for children from any country that accomplishes equitable communication by reflecting each user’s cultural background with multilingual support. There were issues with search accuracy and the consistency of manageability of the PictNet pictogram repository. Online pictogram surveys and experimental pictogram-creation activities for ch...

The paper begins with a definition of the concept emojis (pictograms) before outlining their history, functions, differences in comparison emoticons, and problems surrounding establishment as universal language. In second half paper, ten exercises are presented that work pictograms (based on Szerdi 2018, 2019; Szőcs 2020; Tóth 2020) can make it easier for students to learn about various areas l...