Science of Emotion and Sensibility (감성과학)

Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility (한국감성과학회)
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The Relationship of Nearly White Background Colors and Readability of Tablet PC

Tablet PC에서 Nearly White 배경색과 가독성의 관계

  • Yun, Bo-Ram (Department of color Design, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Park, YungKyung (Department of color Design, Ewha Womans University)
  • 윤보람 (이화여자 대학교 색채디자인 전공) ;
  • 박영경 (이화여자 대학교 색채디자인학과)
  • Received : 2014.01.24
  • Accepted : 2014.05.30
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the readability of Nearly White background color in display environment. To perform the experiment, warmup experiment was carried out to for cognitive of whiteness using a Tablet PC. The experiment environment was by a indoor window seat under a mixture of fluorescent light and sunlight. The result of previous test was that the most whiteness perception was a color white a medium wavelength and followed by the short wavelength. The main experiment was to find readability, color combination and visual strains using 4 nearly whites background colors (Reddish, Greenish, Blueish, Yellowish) and one white background color, also text color is limited on black. As a result, readability and color combination had the highest score against a Greenish white background. Visual strain is also the lowest against a Greenish background. On the contrary, readability and color combination preference has the lowest score against the Reddish background. Visual strain is also the highest against a Reddish background. We propose the background color, which improves readability and reduces visual strain in visual display terminals environment through the research results.

본 연구에서는 VDT(Visual Display Terminals) 환경에서 배경색과 가독성의 상관관계를 알아보았다. 본 실험에 앞서 예비실험으로 색 온도가 다른 White 지각도를 알아보았으며, 실험 자극물은 태블릿 PC를 활용하였다. 실험 환경은 주광과 야외광이 함께 공존할 수 있는 창가에서 실험 자극물을 제시하였다. White 지각도의 인식과 선호 결과 중 단파장계열의 Nearly Whites 색 에서 백색에 대한 높은 선호도와 인식도를 보였다. 이러한 예비실험 결과를 바탕으로 본 연구에서는 동일한 실험 환경과 실험 기기를 가지고 빨간색, 초록색, 파란색, 노란색의 총 4가지 Nearly Whites와 한 가지 백색을 배경색으로 사용하여 배색 평가, 가독성, 피로도를 조사하였다. 또한, 글자는 검은색으로 제한하였다. 그 결과, 초록색의 Nearly White 배경색에서 가독성과 배색 평가가 높게 나타났으며, 가독 시 느끼는 피로도는 가장 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 이와 반대로 빨간색의 Nearly White 배경색에서는 가독성과 배색 평가가 가장 낮게 나타났으며, 가독 시 느끼는 피로도는 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과를 통해서 VDT 환경에서의 가독성을 향상시키며, 눈의 피로도를 낮출 수 있는 배경색을 제안해 보고자한다.

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