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In recent years, many medical accidents have been caused by the confusing designs of pharmaceutical packages and displays. For osteoporosis treatment, a common disorder of elderly females, improving display visibility and operability is especially important. However, since the osteoporosis drugs to be taken once a week are sold in various package designs, differences of viewability, understandability, and operability must be clarified from the differences of package design. We performed experiments as follows.
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Izumiya, A., Ohkura, M., Tsuchiya, F. (2009). The Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Package Designs for the Elderly People. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction. Human Interface 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_57
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