Curling

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Icestocksport, Ice Stock Sport, Bavarian Curling, Indoor Ball Shooting

Category

Sports, Winter Sports, Sporting Activities, Activities, Recreation, Tourism

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the location of facilities for curling or icestocksport

	Source	Description
	Picto'grafics	Frontal view of standing human figure holding broom, slide stone on the bottom
	Erco	Side view of human figure placing slide stone on the ground
	VfL Munderkingen	Side view of human figure with broom placing slide stone on the ground
	SIS	Side view of human figure just before releasing slide stone
	SSRS	Side view of two slide stones with differing size
	SWISSTRAFFIC	Side view of slide stone

Bavarian Curling, Icestocksport

3)	Unknown	Side view of human figure swinging ice stock
	ÖNORM A 3011	Side view of human figure swinging ice stock
4)	Aicher OAP	Side view of human figure just after releasing ice stock
	VfL Munderkingen	Side view of human figure just after releasing ice stock
	Aicher OAP	Side view of human figure just after releasing ice stock
2)	Unknown	Side view of two ice stocks with several details like body and sole, "Daube", ice in white, background above black
1)	Unknown	Side view of ice stock
5)	Unknown	Side view of ice stock

Note: Some of the examples shown above were mirrored horizontally to contrast differences.

Discussion

The table above includes pictograms concerning Curling, but also Icestocksport resp. Bavarian Curling (Eisstockschießen in German) and Indoor Ball Shooting (Hallenbosseln in German). To keep these different kinds of acivities separate, we have split the table accordingly. Image contents include human figures practicing these sports as well as the specific equipment used. Renderings show a varying amount of details.

Research data concerning pictograms for Curling or Bavarian Curling is rather limited in our database:

Gehringer (1976) examined the five pictogram variants for the referent Bavarian Curling or Icestocksport in an Appropriateness Ranking Test. The numbers 1) to 5) represent the final rank order of the pictograms reviewed in this study. Rankings of the pictograms 1) to 4) were rather close together and probably did not differ significantly. Unfortunately the sources of these variants were not named in the report available.

Recommendations

Due to the fact that practically no data concerning comprehensibility of pictogram variants is available, we recommend to collect more pictograms and also to clarify whether Curling and Bavarian Curling or Icestocksport should be treated as separate referents. Then research should be conducted using the Comprehensibility Estimation procedure for eliminating poor variants and identifying the best of the set available, followed by a Comprehension Test. These studies should deliver useful data for recommending one or several pictograms. Detailed information about the most frequent responses given in each of the response categories of the Comprehension Test should be provided to correctly judge comprehensibility and improve designs. This study should also include data concerning familiarity with Curling or Icestocksport.

Tests of pictograms of referent Curling and Icestocksport

Gehringer, J. (1976): Reihungstest über 8 Begriffe aus dem Sportwesen - Priorität II. Report to the Austrian Standards Institute (ON) dated February 1976, Vienna.