고령자 시각적 특성을 고려한 사인시스템 디자인에 관한 연구 - 실버타운을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Korea's statistics of the aged indicates that medicine and other welfare areas have entered the advanced stage, the birth rate has continued to drop, and aging of the population has reinforced every year. With the increasing importance of the silver class in society, more interest has been shown in their living environments. The elderly have increasingly wanted to be independent from their children and pursue a rich and happy life. In recent years, the number of facilities to satisfy those needs of theirs has multiplied, and one of the examples is a silver town. Silver towns have emerged as a new axis of the silver industry providing such services as medical facilities, entertainment and sports for the old. The silver class is in the period of physical aging and its symptoms, which means that a living environment claims huge significance in terms of physical and psychological needs. The spaces where they engage in independent activities should be organized more efficiently, and such environments as can bring a sense of happiness and stability to their life should be created in pursuit of mental stability and physical health. It's unfortunate that Korea's silver towns take no consideration of the elderly's visual elements merely emphasizing unity according to the building owners, interior elements, and companies. The previous studies on the topic focused on the perspective of way finding and interior elements. In this study, the investigator conducted experiments among the elderly aged 65 or older according to the UN criteria in four major silver towns adjacent to a city(Samsung Noble County, Blooming The Classic, Myongji Elfenheim, and High 1 The Village). I produced quantitative data through a survey on the visual differences of signs and the magnitude measurements and used the data to identify the problems with the existing signs and suggest new layouts. In short, the sign systems of a silver town used by the elderly should have greater chroma and luminosity differences than the existing signs, and the spaces between lines and letters should be larger by 20% than those for common people for faster reading. And the elderly preferred the headline gothic type in Korean and the modern sans serif type in English. Finally, the limitations of the study come from the fact that it didn't approach the sign field from sound and olfactory and auditory senses and that there were no English speakers in the subject group.