Scientific Services Laboratory commissioned a project for the design of a smoke alarm informational brochure. The intended audience was the illiterate and people whose first language is not English, who may not feel existing alarms are accessible to them due to the complex, written instructions. Surveys and discussions with people with poor language skills was key in generating ideas for manual design, then testing the manual with those people to develop improvements for the design and implementation of the product.

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Creator

• Gagne, Kenneth Andrew
• Jacene, Michael Frank
• Ciman, Michael C.

Subject

• Security
• Well-Being
• Learning
• Inclusion

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D165I

Keyword

• Fire prevention
• Multiculturalism

Advisor

• Barnett, Jonathan R.
• Ward, Matthew O.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-12-29