Summary
Coding of visual information is an important step in designing man-machine dialogues. After an analysis of the coding and decoding procedures the human properties in information transmission tasks are described by applying the Shannon-Wiener measure of information. The strongly limited human capacity for absolute judgements in information transmission tasks leads to the recommendation of a rather small number of coding steps when using single stimulus dimensions. In a comparison different codes like analogue, digital, alphanumerical, chromatic, pictorial and blinking signals are discussed in order to give application-oriented design rules.
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Geiser, G. (1985). Codierung optischer Information. In: Bodmann, HW. (eds) Aspekte der Informationsverarbeitung. Fachberichte Messen · Steuern · Regeln, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82572-9_7
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