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Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

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____________ are easier to analyze, and may be distributed and analyzed by computer.
  • Closed questions Correct
  • Main body
  • Introduction
  • Warm-up
________________ among users and computers happens at the user interface which includes both software and hardware
  • Interaction Correct
1999, allowed people to interact from different offices in the same building
  • Xerox's Media Space Correct
  • physical interaction
  • virtual reality
  • Random Access Memory
40% response rate is good, 20% is often acceptable.
  • True Correct
  • False
A ____ software system is one that supports the effective and efficient completino of tasks in a given work context.
  • usable Correct
A careful design is even better than good error messages which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either delete or test for error-prone conditions, and offer a validation choice to users before committing to the operation.
  • Error prevention Correct
A computer system is made up of various elements except?
  • output devices
  • input devices
  • physical interaction
  • pockets Correct
A grounded theory approach to analysis emphasizes the important role of empirical data in the derivation of the theory
  • True Correct
  • False
A mouse controlling the cursor as a point of entry to the windows, menus, and icons on the screen?
  • segmenting joined-up writing into individual letters
  • coping with different styles of handwriting
  • interpreting individual letters
  • pointing device Correct
A page that is 'under construction'?
  • example of a gimmick Correct
  • finger can mark screen
  • imprecise (finger is a fairly blunt instrument!)
  • lifting an arm can be tiring
A rapid reversible action with immediate feedback on object of interest refers to conversing.
  • True
  • False Correct
A researcher's degree of participation can vary along a scale from 'outside' to 'inside'
  • True Correct
  • False
A search engine depends on _______to find information on the web.
  • computers Correct
A simplification of an HCI phenomenon is intended to
  • Make it easier for designers to predict and evaluate alternative designs Correct
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Relevant to the design and evaluation of interactive products
  • Information processing that explains how the mind
A software engineer trained in the development of user interfaces would have gained experience, learned about approaches and techniques and gained an understanding of its weaknesses
  • True Correct
Accelerators — unknown by the novice user — can often speed up the professional user interaction so the device can work for both new and seasoned users. Allow users to tailor frequent actions.
  • Flexibility and efficiency of use Correct
According to Norman (1999), An instruction on an interface flagging how to utilize the interface
  • True
  • False Correct
According to Strauss and Corbin (1998), there are seven aspects of "coding" in grounded theory
  • True
  • False Correct
Adaptability engineering involves specifying quantifiable measures of product performance, documenting them in a usability specification, and assessing the product against them
  • True
  • False Correct
Adaptability engineering involves specifying quantifiable product performance measures, documenting them in a usability specification, and assessing the product against them
  • True
  • False Correct
Affinity diagramming recurring patterns or themes, categorizing date (top-down or bottom-up), looking for critical incidents.
  • True
  • False Correct
All answers below is benefits of interface design from design rationale, except
  • not accurately or completely capture the rationale Correct
All design decisions were taken within the context of the users, their work, and the office.
  • True
  • False Correct
An accurate CAD - two dials for X-Y cursor position refers to?
  • thumbwheels Correct
  • Touchpad
  • stylus
  • trackball
An examples of interfaces designed to change behavior?
  • ecommender systems for hotels, restaurants, etc
  • All of the following Correct
  • Amazon One-Click interface
  • Beach scenes on travel sites
An optical method for detecting motions refers to?
  • detects fluctuating alterations in reflected light intensity Correct
  • Ball on the underside of the mouse turns as the mouse is moved
  • Can be used on almost any flat surface
  • Rotates orthogonal potentiometers
An optical methods for detecting motions refers to?
  • Ball on underside of mouse turns as mouse is moved
  • Can be used on almost any flat surface
  • Rotates orthogonal potentiometers
  • detects fluctuating alterations in reflected light intensity Correct
Are focus groups examples of the various degrees of user involvement?
  • No, they are not
  • I don't know
  • Yes, they are Correct
  • Maybe
Are focus groups used to?
  • Build a consensus view Correct
  • Reach a wider population
  • Understand the context of task performance
  • Target specific user groups
Are Foot controls common elsewhere except for?
  • car pedals
  • Computer manipulation Correct
  • sewing machine speed control
  • organ and piano pedals
Are interviews used to?
  • target specific user groups Correct
  • Reach a wider population
  • Understand the context of task performance
  • Build a consensus view
Are there prejudices that distort outcomes?
  • Biases Correct
Are they encouraged to draw on their own theoretical backgrounds to inform analysis?
  • Programmer
  • Interviewer
  • Researchers Correct
  • Interviewee
As it says - all design decisions are ultimately taken with the context of the users, their work, and the environment in mind
  • All design objective
  • All design conclusion
  • All design decisions Correct
  • need to understand self
Asking customers at a restaurant if pizza should be added to the menu?
  • Census
  • Sample Survey Correct
  • Experiment
  • Interview
At the beginning of the Requirements Activity, there is a lot to find out and clarify.
  • True Correct
  • False
At the end of the Requirements Activity, we will have a set of stable requirements that can be based on design activity
  • True Correct
  • False
Attention, perception, memory, learning Reading, speaking, and listening Problem-solving, planning, reasoning, and decision making
  • Experimental cognition
  • doing rather than thinking
  • Reflective Cognition
  • Cognition processes Correct
Attributing human-like qualities to inanimate objects (e.g. cars, computers)?
  • seeing in 3D
  • Anthropomorphism Correct
  • desktop VR
  • use stereoscopic vision
Basic activities in Interactive design EXCEPT
  • Testing the prototype Correct
Be able to commit these memories of the stimuli to a long term memory and reflect upon it (slow and deliberate)?
  • Emotional Design Mode
  • Emotional interaction
  • Claims from model
  • Emotional Design Model - Reflective Correct
Before development begins, a comprehensive study of the users, what they do, and what they are trying to achieve should be completed.
  • True
  • False Correct
Believability is showing up on our screens within the shape of Deals specialists, characters in videogames, learning companions, wizards, pets, newsreaders
  • True
  • False Correct
Brainstorming is the technique used to generate, refine, and develop ideas.
  • True Correct
  • False
Can the system measure what they are supposed to calculate?
  • Validity Correct
Cathode ray tube was used formerly to?
  • used in ROMs and secondary storage
  • used in TVs and computer monitors Correct
  • used in RAMs and ROM
  • used in CPUs and system units
Choose the correct statement:
  • Scenarios explicitly describe the use of software or other technical support to achieve a task
  • Use cases describe human activities in a story
  • Essential use cases represent abstractions from scenarios and try to avoid the assumptions of a use case Correct
  • Ball on the underside of mouse turns as the mouse is moved
Choose the one aspects of the environment that must be considered when establishing requirements?
  • Fatigue for SAP
  • Fatigue for YOU
  • Fatigue for CSP
  • Expressive Interface Correct
Cognition forms typically the method of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the extend of conceivable outcomes accessible.
  • True
  • False Correct
Cognition may be a state of intellect where we see, act, and respond to occasions around us naturally and easily.
  • True
  • False Correct
Comment on the idea of 'too much involvement'?
  • Not at all
  • Heinbokel et al (1996) found that high user involvement projects tended to run less smoothly Svorgyman et al (2010) also identified that high levels of user involvement can generate un-neccessary conflics and increased reworking Correct
  • Both of them
  • Svorgyman et al (2010) also unidentified that high levels of user involvement can generate un-neccessary conflics and increased reworking
computer supported cooperative work is an umbrella under which falls CMC - computer mediated communication
  • CSCW Correct
  • Random Access Memory
  • physical interaction
  • virtual reality
Conceptual models refer to the experience of a successful brand because of its complexity.
  • True
  • False Correct
Concern of interaction design: Which products that are not USABLE?
  • A key questions Correct
  • Enjoyable
  • Easy to use
  • Effective
Context, partnership, and interpretations Contextual inquiry rest on main principles.
  • True
  • False Correct
Contextual (ctl +click to get commands relevant to the current task)
  • rapid feedback
  • the user in control
  • doing rather than thinking
  • Types of menus Correct
Continuous representation of objects and actions of interest.
  • iteration
  • analysis Correct
  • requirements
  • design
Controlled setting involving users, e.g. field experiments and seeing how the product is used in the real world in wild experiments.
  • False Correct
Conversing is a range from simple voice recognition menu-driven systems to more complex.
  • True Correct
  • False
Conversing is an aspect of the end user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products.
  • True
  • False Correct
Copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself ie there are numerous mp3 players on the market, and all have similar functionality This does not represent an infringement of copyright as the idea has been expressed in different ways, and it is the expression that has been copyrighted
  • True Correct
  • False
customer support costs
  • decreased Correct
Debate about differences between participant observation and ethnography.
  • True Correct
  • False
Define users.
  • Those who interact directly with a product to achieve a task Correct
  • very fast for gaming
  • the relative motion moves the cursor
  • Ball on the underside of the mouse turns as the mouse is moved
Describe some methods of ongoing user involvement after product release
  • Imprecise (finger is a fairly blunt instrument!)
  • Error reporting systems ie online crash analysis Correct
  • Interaction between developer and customer service reps
  • Finger can mark screen
Designer introduces an element of the Design & Use scenarios in a cognitive walkthrough.
  • True Correct
Designing, drawing, flying, driving, sizing windows are an example of what conceptual model?
  • Direct manipulation is good for 'doing' types of tasks Correct
  • Information architects
  • Hybrid conceptual models
  • Issuing instructions are useful for repetitive tasks
Designing, drawing, flying, driving, sizing windows are example of what conceptual model?
  • Hybrid conceptual models
  • Issuing instructions is good for repetitive tasks
  • Information architects
  • Direct manipulation is good for 'doing' types of tasks Correct
Determine if not using car seat belts increases deaths in car accidents?
  • Census
  • Experiment
  • Observational Study Correct
  • Sample Survey
Developer's behaviour and context of use are studied, and the system is designed to support them.
  • True
  • False Correct
Developers must attempt to ______________________ in order to produce computer systems with good usability.
  • achieve efficient, effective and safe interaction Correct
Developing fix design that needs to meet requirements.
  • True
  • False Correct
Dialogs should not contain irrelevant or rarely needed information. Each extra information unit in a dialog competes with the related information units and diminishes their relative visibility.
  • Aesthetics and minimalist design Correct
Digitizing tablets are very accurate for digitizing maps.
  • True Correct
  • False
Distributed cognition grounded theory, distributed cognition, activity theory
  • True
  • False Correct
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