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What Kind of Restroom Sign Image is Preferred?

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Advances in Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2022)

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Abstract

Since 2016, the restroom-sign database (RSDB) has collected approximately 1,700 public restroom signs. Each record in the database has one or more photographs of the restroom signs, the actual location of the restroom, and a brief explanation of the item. A previous analysis of the collection revealed several tendencies and categories of restroom signs; the current study seeks to determine the degree of popularity of the various signs. Generally, public restroom signs indicate the location and gender segregation. However, the uniqueness of symbols affects their popularity in the context of social culture. Therefore, the study attempted to identify the most popular signs by creating a web application that compares signs randomly sampled from the database. The application was gamified to incentivize participation. This paper provides an overview of the application and tentative results of the analysis.

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    The sixty-six countries include a few economic regions, e.g., Hongkong and Taiwan.

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    If the denominator \(\sum \nolimits_k |S_k - s_k | \) is calculated to be zero, the fraction in Eq. (3) is treated as zero.

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  1. Chuo University, 1-18 Ichigaya-tamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8478, Japan

    Jun Iio

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

    Hiroyoshi Miwa

  3. Faculty of Bussiness Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Iio, J. (2022). What Kind of Restroom Sign Image is Preferred?. In: Barolli, L., Miwa, H., Enokido, T. (eds) Advances in Network-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 526. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14314-4_43

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