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Signage Planning (Mao Kudo) Lab
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The lab designs guide signs and pictograms to make them easy to understand.
AboutAbout the lab
Signs that are easy to understand for more people.
The Signage Planning (Mao Kudo) Lab studies signage planning, which guides people to their destinations safely and comfortably, and the design of pictograms, which convey information without relying on language.
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.”
The lab's research covers investigation, analysis, and evaluation, through to implementing the design.
Drawing on teaching experience at special needs schools, the lab also emphasizes educational practice: how to teach design, how children learn, and how they apply what they have learned in their daily lives.
Key terms
- Pictogram
- A visual symbol that conveys meaning or information without relying on text or language
- Signage planning
- The planning of guidance signs to lead people to their destinations safely and comfortably
- Wayfinding
- The behavior of finding one's way to a destination
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on the characteristics of visual cognition in people with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and similar conditions, and explores the design of signs and pictograms that are easy to understand for more people. Its research covers investigation, analysis, and evaluation, through to implementing the design.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Sign Guidelines That Consider Visual Characteristics
The lab is developing signage design guidelines that are inclusive of the visual characteristics of people with intellectual, psychiatric, and developmental disabilities. The research keywords are signage design and wayfinding.
Creating Visual Information for Special Needs Schools
In a joint research project, the lab worked on implementing methods of conveying visual information in the educational environments of special needs schools. The keywords are pictograms and environmental graphics.
*Illustrative imagePictograms and Signs for National Youth Education Facilities
In a joint research project at national youth education facilities, the lab worked on inclusive design of pictograms and signs, as part of improving facilities and equipment to enhance their educational function. Diversity is also one of the keywords.
*Illustrative imageFilmmaking with People with Disabilities
This is a research project on making films together with people with disabilities. With decision-making, preferences, agency, and communication as research keywords, the lab examines the project from the perspective of the “social model” of disability.
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: “Wayfinding sign on Overbridge, Geebung Railway Station, Railway Parade, Geebung P1140277” John Robert McPherson / CC0 (cropped)
- Developing Sign Guidelines That Consider Visual Characteristics: “HK SYP St Louis School open day Nov 2017 IX1 7th floor corridor interior sign n visitors” Szeluemens / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pictograms and Signs for National Youth Education Facilities: “Restroom signs at Wikimania 2011 - Stierch” Sarah Stierch / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Filmmaking with People with Disabilities: “View of shooting set at Ramoji film city Hyderabad 3581” Rameshng / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Signage Planning Lab): “Family Restroom Sign” MarkBuckawicki / 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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