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Assessing the Effect of Typography on In-Vehicle Glance-Like Reading Across the Lifespan
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2017-11-27
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TRIS Online Accession Number:01701458
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Edition:Year 25 Final Report
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Abstract:Fonts communicate an interface’s style and identity, and are also a critical design element of that interface. In safety, critical applications such as driving an automobile, basic readability and the ability to quickly target and identify information of interest is critical to reducing workload and preventing distraction. The importance of providing a driver with a visual user interface in which controls can be rapidly identified and information easily read appears self-evident. Previous research has shown that the typeface used in an interface can meaningfully impact driver behavior, as measured by task completion time, error rates, and cumulative glance time to the device screen. Our earliest work in this area examined the design of the typefaces themselves, while holding extrinsic factors such as lighting, size, and line weight constant. Subsequent work examined how these factors interact with typeface design. Our most recent work under the auspice of this project further expanded these types of investigations to examine how legibility changes with rendering, illumination and contrast polarity, age, and how fonts are read in common highway signage configurations. The work is detailed across four publications and has been referenced in numerous popular press articles including Print, Design Week, Design Observer, Best Ride and others.
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