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Signage Planning Lab
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The lab studies signage planning and pictogram design.
AboutAbout the lab
Approaching "easy to understand" through design
The lab of Assistant Professor Kudo studies signage planning, which guides people to their destinations safely and comfortably, and the design of pictograms.
Focusing on the characteristics of visual cognition in people with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and similar conditions, the lab aims for designs that more people find "easy to understand."
Its research covers everything from investigation, analysis, and evaluation to the implementation of the design.
Drawing on Assistant Professor Kudo's teaching experience at special needs schools, the lab also emphasizes how to teach design and how children can apply what they have learned in their lives afterward.
Key terms
- Signage planning
- The planning of guidance signs that lead people to their destinations safely and comfortably
- Pictogram
- A visual symbol that conveys meaning or information through images, without relying on text or language
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming for sign and pictogram designs that more people find "easy to understand," the lab focuses on the characteristics of visual cognition in people with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and similar conditions. Its research covers everything from investigation, analysis, and evaluation to the implementation of the design.
*Illustrative imageSign Design Guidelines Inclusive of Visual Characteristics
The lab is developing sign design guidelines that take into account the visual characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and developmental disabilities. The keywords are sign design and wayfinding.
*Illustrative imageVisual Information Communication in Special Needs Schools
In a joint research project, the lab introduced visual information communication using pictograms and environmental graphics into the actual educational settings of special needs schools. The keyword is wayfinding.
*Illustrative imageSigns and Pictograms for Educational Facilities
In a joint research project, the lab worked on arranging pictograms and signs based on the principles of inclusive design, in order to improve the facilities that support the educational function of National Youth Education Facilities. The keywords are signage planning and diversity.
*Illustrative imageFilmmaking with People with Disabilities
This is a research project on making films together with people with disabilities. It examines filmmaking led by people with intellectual disabilities from the perspective of the social model of disability, with the keywords decision-making, preferences, agency, and communication.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorMao Kudo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Family Restroom Sign” MarkBuckawicki / CC0 (cropped)
- Sign Design Guidelines Inclusive of Visual Characteristics: “Restroom Acrylic Sign with Mounting Hardware” Helene.3160 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Visual Information Communication in Special Needs Schools: “Picture Communication Symbols ( )” Jamie from Toronto, ON / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Signs and Pictograms for Educational Facilities: “Corridor in a Japanese elementary school” Kanko* from Nagasaki, JAPAN / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Filmmaking with People with Disabilities: “Filmklappe Filmschindel Gedanken” Bernd Schwabe in Hannover / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Signage Planning (Mao Kudo) Lab): “Wayfinding sign on Overbridge, Geebung Railway Station, Railway Parade, Geebung P1140277” John Robert McPherson / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Building Construction Planning Lab): “Sky Balcony riveted steel beam detail Hamasen Railway Cultural Park Kaohsiung” The Nature Box / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Construction and Planning Lab (Asao Inoue)): “Illuminated facade of a restaurant serving traditional food with fresh vegetables in Chiyoda, Tokyo” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Color and Vision Science Lab): “Color-palette-dynamic-color” Vijay Verma / CC0 (cropped)
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