An Investigation of Preferred Shapes for Warning Labels
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Vol. 24 (6) , 737-742
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872088202400610
Abstract
An examination was made of 19 different geometric shapes of warning labels, using the method of paired comparisons. Sixty-six college students viewed slides of all pairs of the shapes and each time selected the shape that was the preferred indicator of warning. An ordinal scaling method was used to evaluate the differences among the shapes. Results show that the triangle on its vertex was the preferred warning indicator among the shapes tested.Keywords
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