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This research suggests color-coded directional floor signage that provides easier guidance and accessibility for daily navigation of the elderly people. While eyesight determines a person's ability to find ways and move towards a correct direction, elderly people who suffer from yellowing of their crystalline lenses or xanthopsia may have difficulties distinguishing blue/dark colors from other ones. Different colors have different implications and impacts on psychological statuses and responsive behaviors of the people who perceive them; dividing private and shared spaces by colors that represent such functions will help the elderly find directions efficiently, define spaces and have their attention drawn towards where they should be headed to, which means they will not be lost while trying to go to their own bedrooms, they will have improved self-confidence since they can reach the destinations they wanted by themselves, and they will be evacuated easily in emergency. According to the collected data on recognition of color among confusing combinations, subjective responses of people aged over 75 were prominently related to yellowing of their visions. When this research examined age-related decline in color perception related to yellowing of vision of the elderly people, the respondents aged 75～85 recognized more colors as yellow and red but less colors as belonging to the blue category. The confusing combinations of colors presented to them were: yellow/white, blue/green, dark blue/black and purple/gray. Therefore, the research suggests that using contrastive colors considering the way the elderly people perceive them differently should be helpful for their wayfinding ? effective color-coding for indoor floor design of the spaces for the elderly should be suggested. |