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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"legibility"”.
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Effects of Font Design on Highway Sign Legibility
… have been conducted to improve the overall legibility of Highway Gothic. One study found that its legibility could greatly improve if it's size was increased by 20%. This, however, is extremely unlikely, since increasing the font size would also entail an increase in the physical signs …
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
… that emphasize deliberate resistance to legibility by local elites, I argue that the lack of incentives for local politicians also undermines the state’s ability to collect data. This results in understaffed registry offices, high bureaucratic turnover, and poor data-making performance. …
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Legibility of Musical Scores and Parallels with Language Reading
… predictability of design in a score can aid its legibility in a manner similar to what has been shown in the language domain. Cultural studies of reading —particularly the works of Saenger— point in the same direction; according to these, the change in Medieval textual scripts from scriptura …
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Cybernetic maintenance : exploring infrastructure legibility of waste systems at MIT
… complex civic systems, and the role of that legibility in changing both individuals, and the systems themselves.
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Mending fractured spaces : external legibility and seamlessness in interface design
This thesis presents External Legibility: a property of user interfaces that affects the ability of non-participating observers to understand the context of a user's actions. Claims of its value are supported with arguments from the social sciences and human-computer interaction literature; …
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Urban mechanics : the parking garage as an instrument of legibility
… garage typology as an instrument of urban legibility and future growth. When limited to the efficiencies of disciplinary conventions garages are distinct facilitative structures that are site adapted anywhere and predictably limited to the function of vehicle storage. Yet by focussing on …
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The effect of rotation on legibility of dot-matrix characters
… dot-matrix patterns are distorted and their legibility is thus affected. In this experiment, 16 subjects performed a random search task, in which they were asked to look for a target in a random character pattern. The independent variables were the direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) …
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The [Il]legibility of Character: Gesture, Costume, and Identity in Goya
… discussion of the uncertain gendered status and legibility of the petimetre, a fashionable fop often ridiculed for his foreign and effeminate trappings, as viewed through the intersection of popular culture and costume. In particular, Goya's Magic Mirror drawings become a means to understand some …
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Legibility prediction for flat-panel displays under fluorescent and daylight illumination
… effort was directed at the development of legibility prediction models for flat-panel electronic displays used under typical office illumination (i.e., fluorescent) and various phases of daylight illumination. The models are intended to permit the manipulation of candidate display …
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Unitary suprathreshold color-difference metrics of legibility for CRT raster imagery
… the relationships between color contrast and legibility for digital raster video imagery. CIE colorimetric components were combined into three-dimensional color coordinate systems whose coordinates map one-to-one with the physical energy parameters of all colors. The distance between any two …
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Rater's perception of handwriting legibility and word- processing in l2 writing assessment
… handwritten counterparts regardless of original legibility. No such effect was found for handwriting legibility, though regardless of legibility handwritten transcriptions were rated higher than their original counterparts.
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Evaluation of the effect of Clearview font and retro-reflective sheeting materials on legibility distance
… material, which performs best by increasing the legibility distance between the driver and the sign during both day and night time conditions. The objective of the research was to determine the combination of font (among Clearview 5-W, Series E-Modified and Clearview 5-W-R) and retro-reflective …
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Engaging the freeway as urban space: Finding legibility and order in the high speed landscape
The vast and speed-swept space of the urban freeway challenges the capacity of the city to serve as a vessel for collective and individual identity. Humanist space, which once gave definition and meaning to the place of the individual in the city, has been obliterated by the vector of speed, to the …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
… to feel powerful emotions and to assign moral legibility to societal problems. Given the significant role of territorial expansion and chattel slavery in US history, race has always presented Americans with crucial moral dilemmas. Melodrama has long provided a dominant mode of representation …
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The Comparability of Typographic and Substrate Variables in Legibility and Readability Research: An Integrative Review
… characteristics nor consistent definitions of legibility and readability in order to allow comparable replication from one study to another. Findings are displayed in Chapter 4. Discussion and the related details are presented in Chapter 5.
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Interface: The search for legibility of urban form for African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
In moving, fleeing or travelling to a different country for a myriad of reasons, migrants find themselves in new contexts, new worlds sometimes completely different from the places they come from. This makes them a vulnerable proportion of society in the urban spaces they find themselves in. …
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Comparing the Legibility and Comprehension of Type Size, Font Selection and Rendering Technology of Onscreen Type
… technology and the dependent measures of legibility, as measured by the Chapman-Cook speed of reading test, as well as comprehension, as measured by a series of questions from the verbal comprehension section of the Graduate Record Exam. An electronic instrument presented test items in 12 …
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Cognitive processes in the perception of the environment : a framework for study of legibility in small urban spaces
… for investigating the relationship between the legibility in the urban environment and various components of the visual environment, as perceived. and remembered by the people. The focus of the study are small urban spaces in Boston. The study developed a series of experimental protocols to …
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CRT anti-glare treatments, image quality, and human performance
… In addition, user measures of readability, legibility, and perceived image quality were obtained for these same filter and environmental conditions. Quantitative models were developed to predict the performance and subjective data based on signal and noise measures derived from the physical …
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