Stones, Catherine, Knapp, Peter Raymond orcid.org/0000-0001-5904-8699 and Closs, S. Jose (2016) Creating a better picture of chronic pain: Improving pain pictogram designs through systematic evaluation of user responses. British Journal of Pain. ISSN 2049-4637
Abstract
This paper discusses the challenges of visually representing pain qualities in pictogram design. An existing set of 12 pictograms designed for people with literacy problems was evaluated to understand more about misunderstandings of pictogram interpretation. Two sets of university students from different disciplines were asked to interpret the pictograms and a novel classification system was developed to categorise answer types, as ‘location’, ‘affective’, temporal’ or ‘literal’. Several design recommendations are made as a result that will help improve the design of pain pictograms as a whole as well as guide designers of related pictogram work. We demonstrate how, through the robust classification of incorrect responses, it is possible to extract useful comprehension error patterns to inform future design.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The British Pain Society 2016. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Hull York Medical School (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 13:33 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2025 00:12 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463716657365 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2049463716657365 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102006 |
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