Global Communication with Icons in Environmental Contexts
Heimbürger, A. (2016). Global Communication with Icons in Environmental Contexts. In T. Welzer, H. Jaakkola, B. Thalheim, Y. Kiyoki, & N. Yoshida (Eds.), Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXVII (pp. 95-102). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 280. IOS Press. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-611-8-95
Date
2016Discipline
TietotekniikkaCopyright
© 2016 Heimbürger & IOS Press. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by IOS Press. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
Icons are small signs with fixed meanings. Icons are usually context
specific. For example in the context of a hotel, the client can often find icons in
hotel room books and safety guides. Scandic Hotel chain, for example, currently
provides the manual for its safety system in 14 languages. There are at least two
major shortcomings of this system: (1) in emergency or panic situations, it is very
difficult to find your own language from the leaflet, and (2) there are no Asian
languages. There is an obvious need for a global icon-based hotel safety language.
In our paper, we introduce an icon-based model, language and mobile application
for hotel safety.