Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:51:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 yamashita_mgn_me_bauru.pdf: 3853810 bytes, checksum: 95d8eea961a0f97399b6238a52a32bf1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar os problemas relativos à leitura e compreensão dos rótulos e bulas de agrotóxicos. O levantamento de tais problemas se deu por meio de entrevista realizada com agricultores da região de Londrina, PR. A partir de levantamento bibliográfico, foram obtidos parâmetros para a análise dos elementos tipográficos e da legibilidade de rótulos e bulas, que também foram avaliados segundo critérios exigidos pela legislação federal de agrotóxicos. Os resultados demonstraram que exigências da legislação não são cumpridas. Além disso, a legibilidade das informações contidas em rótulos e bulas é comprometida principalmente por dois motivos: o corpo reduzido das fontes utilizadas no texto e o emprego de famílias tipográficas inadequadas. Alguns pictogramas também demonstraram ser ineficientes, alcançando baixos níveis de compreensão e gerando definições ambíguas. / The present work had the purpose to analyze the problems relative to reading and comprehension of the labels and instructions of pesticides. The statistics farmers of the region of Londrinha, Paraná to leave from raising bibliographical were obtain parameters to analyze of typographical and the legibility of the labels and instructions that were evaluate according criterious to require by the pesticides's federal legislation. The results demonstrate that the legislations weren't executed. Besides, the legibility of the informations contained in labels and instructions is implicated by the utilization of inadequate typographic families and the reduced size of the fonts. Some pictograms demonstrate to be inefficient, to reaching low level of comprehension and producing ambiguous definitions.

Signs are commonly used in the foodservice industry to portray food safety messages. However, many of these signs do not consider employee preferences or current needs in the industry. Employee perceptions can provide crucial information about the design of effective food safety messages. Surveys were conducted with meat and poultry processing employers in the mid-Atlantic region to determine food safety needs in the industry. Follow-up focus groups in both English (5) and Spanish (5) were conducted based on language availability and size. The most important food safety topics were hand washing (60.9%), cleaning/sanitizing (78.3%), and cross contamination (69.9%). Employees believe that color, text, and multiple language options could increase employee recognition and retention of intended messages. New, employee-driven hand washing signs were developed from the information in the focus groups. Signs were evaluated by video observation through five hand washing practice behaviors (soap use, complete wash, time to wash, complete rinse, and towel use) at two different poultry processing facilities in the mid-Atlantic at three different time points (baseline, short term, and long term). Soap use significantly increased at both facilities when baseline data was compared to short term and long term time periods. Facility B showed a significant increase in washing, time, and rinsing when baseline data was compared to short term, which indicates that a new sign could increase hand washing compliance. Sign color had a significant effect on behavior for washing and time of washing, while time had a significant effect on behavior for four of five variables tested. New signs could be a useful way to encourage compliance to food safety message for multicultural employees; however, they may need to be frequently changed as workers tend to refer back to old habits. / Ph. D.

Orientador: João Eduardo Guarnetti dos Santos / Banca: Jair Rosas da Silva / Banca: Luis Gonzaga Campos Porto / Resumo: O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar os problemas relativos à leitura e compreensão dos rótulos e bulas de agrotóxicos. O levantamento de tais problemas se deu por meio de entrevista realizada com agricultores da região de Londrina, PR. A partir de levantamento bibliográfico, foram obtidos parâmetros para a análise dos elementos tipográficos e da legibilidade de rótulos e bulas, que também foram avaliados segundo critérios exigidos pela legislação federal de agrotóxicos. Os resultados demonstraram que exigências da legislação não são cumpridas. Além disso, a legibilidade das informações contidas em rótulos e bulas é comprometida principalmente por dois motivos: o corpo reduzido das fontes utilizadas no texto e o emprego de famílias tipográficas inadequadas. Alguns pictogramas também demonstraram ser ineficientes, alcançando baixos níveis de compreensão e gerando definições ambíguas. / Abstract: The present work had the purpose to analyze the problems relative to reading and comprehension of the labels and instructions of pesticides. The statistics farmers of the region of Londrinha, Paraná to leave from raising bibliographical were obtain parameters to analyze of typographical and the legibility of the labels and instructions that were evaluate according criterious to require by the pesticides's federal legislation. The results demonstrate that the legislations weren't executed. Besides, the legibility of the informations contained in labels and instructions is implicated by the utilization of inadequate typographic families and the reduced size of the fonts. Some pictograms demonstrate to be inefficient, to reaching low level of comprehension and producing ambiguous definitions. / Mestre

Partindo de questões da sustentabilidade ambiental voltadas para o ecodesign, esta pesquisa se propõe a desenvolver pictogramas para indicar os movimentos a serem realizados para que a pré-desmontagem - remoção da carcaça - de produtos, com junções snap-fits, seja feita. Para isso, agregou-se conhecimentos de design gráfico e de produto, a fim de compreender estes dois pontos principais e, assim, desenvolver grafismos que conseguissem transmitir as informações necessárias. Através de uma abordagem de ciclo de vida de produto, focou-se principalmente nas etapas finais, visando aumentar a sua vida útil e ampliar as suas possibilidades de reuso, reutilização e, por último, reciclagem. Para isso, a desmontagem é especialmente importante, pois é a partir dela que os produtos podem ser separados, consertados ou utilizados em outras funções. Algumas desmontagens de produtos foram realizadas e verificou-se uma deficiência na separação daqueles que possuíam junções snap-fits escondidas no seu interior. Esse tipo de união se mostra eficaz em grande parte dos seus usos, porém, a dificuldade registrada foi quando não se sabia onde estava o encaixe e ele acabava sendo quebrado ao se realizar alguma operação em local inadequado, a fim de abrir o produto. Dessa forma, snap-fits tipo loop e permanente foram selecionados para terem suas desmontagens indicadas e, assim, seu uso otimizado. O primeiro deles pode ser aberto produzindo-se uma alavanca, portanto seu pictograma indica "faça uma alavanca aqui". Já o segundo não pode ser aberto a menos que seja quebrado, portanto sua indicação é "quebre aqui". De autores consagrados na área de formas gráficas e percepção visual, foram extraídos cinco critérios de análise formal que serviram para analisar alguns pictogramas já existentes e se mostraram de grande auxílio para embasar o desenvolvimento dos novos. Após estudos formais, proposição de alguns pictogramas, análise dos mesmos e posterior aperfeiçoamento, chegou-se a quatro grafismos finais, que foram então testados com dez usuários, divididos em dois grupos. Para o teste, foram feitas simulações gráficas da aplicação destes pictogramas em produtos, estas imagens foram apresentadas aos usuários e eles descreveram qual seria a sua ação diante daquele pictograma. Os pictogramas tiveram interpretações, no mínimo, próximas daquilo que se pretendia informar. Considerou-se, portanto, que a metodologia utilizada para o desenvolvimento dos mesmos foi eficaz e que os pictogramas são adequados para transmitir mensagens complexas através de formas simplificadas. / This research is about sustainability, ecodesign, and pictograms. It has the objective to develop pictograms in order to indicate movements necessary to make the predisassembly - moving out the housing - of some products which have junctions such as snap-fits. In order to achieve this objective some research about two essential subjects - product design and graphic design - were made. Life Cycle Design guided the investigation through the end of useful life time aspects. That intends to increase products' life time, making it possible to reuse, recover and recycle materials. Therefore, disassembly is quite important in this stage, because it allows products to be opened, fixed, and/or reused in other functions. Thus, several products were disassembled and some complications were observed on separating of the ones which have snap-fits junctions hidden in their interior. These types of junctions are generally efficient in most of their uses. However, in this research, the problems were found when it was not known where the snap-fits were located. As a result, they broke when an inadequate action was made intending to open the product. Consequently, the junctions chosen to be indicated by means of the pictograms were the snap-fits like non-releasing and loop. The first one can only be opened by breaking the junction, so, the pictogram will indicate "break here"; in the other case, the loop can be opened if a movement like a lever is made, so the pictogram for this one will be "make a lever here". Based on important authors of the visual perception subject, five formal analysis categories were grouped and used to analyze existent pictograms, and also to give information to the development of new ones. After some formal analysis, several pictograms were proposed and improved. Then four final pictograms were chosen to be tested with ten users, divided into two groups. The test consists in showing to the users a simulated image of the pictograms applied in real products, and asking them which would be their action to disassembly that product. As a result the pictograms were interpreted at least in close proximity to their real meaning. Therefore, the methodology utilized was considered efficient and the pictograms are adequate to transmit complex information trough a simple form.

Partindo de questões da sustentabilidade ambiental voltadas para o ecodesign, esta pesquisa se propõe a desenvolver pictogramas para indicar os movimentos a serem realizados para que a pré-desmontagem - remoção da carcaça - de produtos, com junções snap-fits, seja feita. Para isso, agregou-se conhecimentos de design gráfico e de produto, a fim de compreender estes dois pontos principais e, assim, desenvolver grafismos que conseguissem transmitir as informações necessárias. Através de uma abordagem de ciclo de vida de produto, focou-se principalmente nas etapas finais, visando aumentar a sua vida útil e ampliar as suas possibilidades de reuso, reutilização e, por último, reciclagem. Para isso, a desmontagem é especialmente importante, pois é a partir dela que os produtos podem ser separados, consertados ou utilizados em outras funções. Algumas desmontagens de produtos foram realizadas e verificou-se uma deficiência na separação daqueles que possuíam junções snap-fits escondidas no seu interior. Esse tipo de união se mostra eficaz em grande parte dos seus usos, porém, a dificuldade registrada foi quando não se sabia onde estava o encaixe e ele acabava sendo quebrado ao se realizar alguma operação em local inadequado, a fim de abrir o produto. Dessa forma, snap-fits tipo loop e permanente foram selecionados para terem suas desmontagens indicadas e, assim, seu uso otimizado. O primeiro deles pode ser aberto produzindo-se uma alavanca, portanto seu pictograma indica "faça uma alavanca aqui". Já o segundo não pode ser aberto a menos que seja quebrado, portanto sua indicação é "quebre aqui". De autores consagrados na área de formas gráficas e percepção visual, foram extraídos cinco critérios de análise formal que serviram para analisar alguns pictogramas já existentes e se mostraram de grande auxílio para embasar o desenvolvimento dos novos. Após estudos formais, proposição de alguns pictogramas, análise dos mesmos e posterior aperfeiçoamento, chegou-se a quatro grafismos finais, que foram então testados com dez usuários, divididos em dois grupos. Para o teste, foram feitas simulações gráficas da aplicação destes pictogramas em produtos, estas imagens foram apresentadas aos usuários e eles descreveram qual seria a sua ação diante daquele pictograma. Os pictogramas tiveram interpretações, no mínimo, próximas daquilo que se pretendia informar. Considerou-se, portanto, que a metodologia utilizada para o desenvolvimento dos mesmos foi eficaz e que os pictogramas são adequados para transmitir mensagens complexas através de formas simplificadas. / This research is about sustainability, ecodesign, and pictograms. It has the objective to develop pictograms in order to indicate movements necessary to make the predisassembly - moving out the housing - of some products which have junctions such as snap-fits. In order to achieve this objective some research about two essential subjects - product design and graphic design - were made. Life Cycle Design guided the investigation through the end of useful life time aspects. That intends to increase products' life time, making it possible to reuse, recover and recycle materials. Therefore, disassembly is quite important in this stage, because it allows products to be opened, fixed, and/or reused in other functions. Thus, several products were disassembled and some complications were observed on separating of the ones which have snap-fits junctions hidden in their interior. These types of junctions are generally efficient in most of their uses. However, in this research, the problems were found when it was not known where the snap-fits were located. As a result, they broke when an inadequate action was made intending to open the product. Consequently, the junctions chosen to be indicated by means of the pictograms were the snap-fits like non-releasing and loop. The first one can only be opened by breaking the junction, so, the pictogram will indicate "break here"; in the other case, the loop can be opened if a movement like a lever is made, so the pictogram for this one will be "make a lever here". Based on important authors of the visual perception subject, five formal analysis categories were grouped and used to analyze existent pictograms, and also to give information to the development of new ones. After some formal analysis, several pictograms were proposed and improved. Then four final pictograms were chosen to be tested with ten users, divided into two groups. The test consists in showing to the users a simulated image of the pictograms applied in real products, and asking them which would be their action to disassembly that product. As a result the pictograms were interpreted at least in close proximity to their real meaning. Therefore, the methodology utilized was considered efficient and the pictograms are adequate to transmit complex information trough a simple form.

Partindo de questões da sustentabilidade ambiental voltadas para o ecodesign, esta pesquisa se propõe a desenvolver pictogramas para indicar os movimentos a serem realizados para que a pré-desmontagem - remoção da carcaça - de produtos, com junções snap-fits, seja feita. Para isso, agregou-se conhecimentos de design gráfico e de produto, a fim de compreender estes dois pontos principais e, assim, desenvolver grafismos que conseguissem transmitir as informações necessárias. Através de uma abordagem de ciclo de vida de produto, focou-se principalmente nas etapas finais, visando aumentar a sua vida útil e ampliar as suas possibilidades de reuso, reutilização e, por último, reciclagem. Para isso, a desmontagem é especialmente importante, pois é a partir dela que os produtos podem ser separados, consertados ou utilizados em outras funções. Algumas desmontagens de produtos foram realizadas e verificou-se uma deficiência na separação daqueles que possuíam junções snap-fits escondidas no seu interior. Esse tipo de união se mostra eficaz em grande parte dos seus usos, porém, a dificuldade registrada foi quando não se sabia onde estava o encaixe e ele acabava sendo quebrado ao se realizar alguma operação em local inadequado, a fim de abrir o produto. Dessa forma, snap-fits tipo loop e permanente foram selecionados para terem suas desmontagens indicadas e, assim, seu uso otimizado. O primeiro deles pode ser aberto produzindo-se uma alavanca, portanto seu pictograma indica "faça uma alavanca aqui". Já o segundo não pode ser aberto a menos que seja quebrado, portanto sua indicação é "quebre aqui". De autores consagrados na área de formas gráficas e percepção visual, foram extraídos cinco critérios de análise formal que serviram para analisar alguns pictogramas já existentes e se mostraram de grande auxílio para embasar o desenvolvimento dos novos. Após estudos formais, proposição de alguns pictogramas, análise dos mesmos e posterior aperfeiçoamento, chegou-se a quatro grafismos finais, que foram então testados com dez usuários, divididos em dois grupos. Para o teste, foram feitas simulações gráficas da aplicação destes pictogramas em produtos, estas imagens foram apresentadas aos usuários e eles descreveram qual seria a sua ação diante daquele pictograma. Os pictogramas tiveram interpretações, no mínimo, próximas daquilo que se pretendia informar. Considerou-se, portanto, que a metodologia utilizada para o desenvolvimento dos mesmos foi eficaz e que os pictogramas são adequados para transmitir mensagens complexas através de formas simplificadas. / This research is about sustainability, ecodesign, and pictograms. It has the objective to develop pictograms in order to indicate movements necessary to make the predisassembly - moving out the housing - of some products which have junctions such as snap-fits. In order to achieve this objective some research about two essential subjects - product design and graphic design - were made. Life Cycle Design guided the investigation through the end of useful life time aspects. That intends to increase products' life time, making it possible to reuse, recover and recycle materials. Therefore, disassembly is quite important in this stage, because it allows products to be opened, fixed, and/or reused in other functions. Thus, several products were disassembled and some complications were observed on separating of the ones which have snap-fits junctions hidden in their interior. These types of junctions are generally efficient in most of their uses. However, in this research, the problems were found when it was not known where the snap-fits were located. As a result, they broke when an inadequate action was made intending to open the product. Consequently, the junctions chosen to be indicated by means of the pictograms were the snap-fits like non-releasing and loop. The first one can only be opened by breaking the junction, so, the pictogram will indicate "break here"; in the other case, the loop can be opened if a movement like a lever is made, so the pictogram for this one will be "make a lever here". Based on important authors of the visual perception subject, five formal analysis categories were grouped and used to analyze existent pictograms, and also to give information to the development of new ones. After some formal analysis, several pictograms were proposed and improved. Then four final pictograms were chosen to be tested with ten users, divided into two groups. The test consists in showing to the users a simulated image of the pictograms applied in real products, and asking them which would be their action to disassembly that product. As a result the pictograms were interpreted at least in close proximity to their real meaning. Therefore, the methodology utilized was considered efficient and the pictograms are adequate to transmit complex information trough a simple form.

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According to the Webster's unabridged dictionary, a mania is an excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze. I experience a mania on a daily basis: I take photographs. I trap photographs inside flat, airless fish tanks where time stands still. The creatures captured inside the tanks resurrect every time I see them to remind me of a sound, an odor, a flavor, and, ultimately, a feeling I once experienced and now cherish. This project will attempt to show the energy captured in my photographic archives as a journey through my memories using an experimental interactive method.

BACKGROUND: Parent medication errors are exceedingly common, with one child experiencing an outpatient medication error every 8 minutes. In a previous randomized controlled trial where the intervention was carried out under ideal conditions, we examined the efficacy of a pictographic, health literacy-informed medication instruction sheet-based intervention (HELPix) in reducing parent dosing errors. While our intervention was efficacious in reducing errors, reproducing these results in a real world setting, is necessary to examine the true effectiveness of HELPix. OBJECTIVES: 1) To examine the impact of HELPix implementation on parent medication dosing errors. 2) To assess the effect of HELPix implementation on provider use of medication counseling strategies. DESIGN/METHODS: A pre-implementation/post-implementation study design was used in 2 pediatric Emergency Departments (EDs) in New York City, one with planned implementation of the HELPix intervention (HELPix site) and the other a control site within the same hospital network. Subject inclusion criteria included: 1) English or Spanish-speaking parent, 2) child <9 years old, child prescribed a short course (≤14 days) daily liquid medicine, and 3) parent present with the child in the emergency department and received medication counseling. Parents were recruited over the phone; those who enrolled completed a phone interview along with a follow-up in-person assessment (median time to follow-up=15 days). ED providers (residents, fellows, attendings) were also recruited. The HELPix intervention consists of: 1) provider provision of patient- and medicine-specific pictographic instruction sheets, 2) provider use of pictures/drawings as part of counseling to reinforce dosing information, 3) provider demonstration of the dose using an oral syringe, 3) teachback of dose information, 4) parent showback of the dose they plan to give, and 5) provider provision of an oral syringe. At the HELPix site, ED providers were trained in the use of HELPix counseling strategies as well as how to use the electronic medical record (EMR) system to generate the instruction sheets while ordering a prescription. Outcomes assessed were: 1) provider provision of HELPix instruction sheets via web tracking, 2) dosing errors ≥ 20% deviation from prescribed dose, assessed from observation at follow-up visit, 3) provider counseling practices (i.e. use of pictures/drawings, demonstration, teachback, showback, provision of dosing tool) obtained by parent report. RESULTS: A total of 1493 parents were assessed by telephone for eligibility in the pre-/post-implementation phases. 561 parent-child dyads were recruited by phone (284 at HELPix site; 277 at control site). A total of 92% were mothers, 52% were Spanish speakers, 78% were Latino, 16% were Black, and 85% were of low socioeconomic status. Web tracking at the HELPix intervention site indicated that for 58% of the enrolled families in the post-implementation period, providers generated HELPix medication instruction sheets. Compared to the pre-implementation period at the intervention site, parent dosing errors rates were significantly reduced during the post-implementation period (37% versus 16%; AOR=0.3, p<0.001); with an overall Relative Risk Reduction (RRR)=57%, with greatest reductions in errors among those that received HELPix sheets (12% error rate, RRR=68%). Providers at the HELPix implementation site were significantly more likely to use recommended provider counseling strategies post-implementation compared to pre-implementation (pictures/drawings: 37% versus 1%; dosing demonstration: 59% versus 33%; teachback: 24% versus 8%; showback: 33% vs. 13%, and provision of oral syringe 79% versus 25%; p<0.0001 for all strategies). In the non-intervention site, there were no differences in parent dosing error rates, or in provider use of counseling strategies between the pre- and post-implementation periods. CONCLUSION: Implementation of the HELPix intervention resulted in increased provider use of recommended counseling strategies as well as decreased parent medication dosing errors in an urban public hospital setting serving low socioeconomic status families. Use of HELPix supports high quality provider medication counseling and appears to be feasible to incorporate as part of routine Emergency Department discharge practices.

Šio projekto pagrindiniai tikslai ir išsikelti uždaviniai ir yra sumažinti susidariusį didelį kalbos barjerą tarp neįgaliųjų ir sveikų žmonių, panaudojant jau senai žinomus ir naudojamus neįgaliųjų bendravimo metodus. Bandoma pritaikyti šiuolaikinę kompiuterinę techniką bei išnaudoti šiuolaikinių informacinių sistemų pritaikomumą realioje situacijoje. Šio darbo metu buvo suprojektuota ir realizuota sistema palengvinanti neįgaliesiems skirtų bendravimo metodų panaudojimą. Pagrindinis sistemos sukūrimo tikslas ir buvo suteikti pagalbą bendraujant su fiziškai ir protiškai neįgaliais vaikais ir jų tėvais ar auklėtojais, pritaikant specialius tokio bendravimo metodus. Projektavimui pasirinktas paketas Microsoft VISIO 2003, sistemos pagrindinė sąsaja sukurta naudojant Macromedia Flash 8, MYSQL duomenų bazės projektavimui bei tvarkymui pasirinkta programa EMS MySQL Manager Professional v.2.8, administracinei sistemos pusei pasirinkta kalba PHP bei PHP Zend Studio 5 darbo aplinka. Sistemos veikimas analogiškas realiai sukurtiems Norvegijos daktarų bendravimo kortelėmis metodams. Pagrindinis skirtumas tarp egzistuojančių metodų ir sukurtos sistemos tai, jog sukurtoji sistema naudoja modernias informacines technologijas ir naujus sprendimus problemos sprendimui įgyvendinti. Iki šiol naudojami metodai paremti dideliu popierinių kortelių kiekiu (apie 390 kortelių) kurį kiekvienas fiziškai (ir dalinai protiškai) neįgalusis vaikas turi įsisavinti, o vėliau ir pasinaudoti norėdamas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this paper is described the method which helps disabled people which has autism trouble to communicate and understand. The main communication environment is BLISS (Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985)) pictograms which ranged in the provided matrix by statistic position of the usage. Program platform is based on Macromedia Flash TM. A full analysis of “Center of Kaunas Children Ability”, was finished in this work, also the similar systems are compared and reviewed. The system is designed and realized by these means: Microsoft VISIO TM 2003 - designing. Macromedia Flash TM 8 – user interface platform and programming. EMS MySQL Manager TM Professional v.2.8 – database programming PHP Zend Studio TM 5 – administration side programming.