Information Design Journal

Volume 18, Issue 2 (2010)

2010. ca. 100 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.18.2

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter Simlinger
Articles
Warning symbology: Difficult concepts may be  successfully depicted with two-part signs Austin Adams, Theo Boersema and Meijer Mijksenaar	94–106
Paper and on-line testing of graphical access symbols  in three countries using the ISO 9186 comprehension test Jeremy J. Foster, Keiichi Koyama and Austin Adams	107–117
Design improvements for frequently misrecognized letters Sofie Beier and Kevin Larson
Rhetorical figures in TV commercials: The occurrence of schemes and tropes and their effects on commercial likeability Renske van Enschot, Cyrella Beckers and Margot van Mulken
Case Studies
An interview with Patricia Wright Saul Carliner
Hot Topics in Information Research and Design
Introduction Peter Simlinger	156
Personas as a user-centred design method for mobility-related services Konrad Baumann	157–167
Research on VMS (Variable Message Signs) Peter Simlinger
Book reviews
Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels. Fallacies and judgments of reasonableness: Empirical research concerning the pragma-dialectical discussion rules Reviewed by Jos Hornikx
Dona M. Wong. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures Reviewed by Gordon Akwera
Matthew Frederick. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, MIT Press, 2007 Reviewed by Konrad Baumann

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Psychology

Cognitive psychology