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Study of Visual Symbols Used in Food Packaging Identification for the Elderly Affected with Chronic Diseases

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With the progress of society, people grew more demanding for the quality of society. Design is an important means and methods to enhance the quality of life, in addition to meeting the life demand value of normal people, the contemporary society has highlighted the trend of globalization of the elderly. In this paper, four aspects of disciplinary interdisciplinary, cognitive psychology, general design, ergonomics and so on are used to find out the improved method and basis for visual symbol recognition. It is important that four methods used in the research: 1. the questionnaire collection of data for the elderly. 2. literature review of the elderly physiological cognitive and cognitive psychology research. 3. universal packaging symbol card. 4. the identification of the elderly identification, take the corresponding Sample to the elderly to do the interview results finally.

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  1. School of Design, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, South China University of Technology, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Jiajie Lyu & Delai Men

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  1. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

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    Tareq Ahram

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Lyu, J., Men, D. (2018). Study of Visual Symbols Used in Food Packaging Identification for the Elderly Affected with Chronic Diseases. In: Karwowski, W., Ahram, T. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration. IHSI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73888-8_72

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