Deck 2: Human-Computer Interaction HCI: Part B

Question 1

A technique that organizes data into groups to form non-redundant, stable, flexible, and adaptive entities is:

A)optimization
B)normalization
C)randomization
D)requirements analysis

Answer 1

normalization

Question 2

Which of the following is not a factor in the failure of the systems developments projects?

A)size of the company
B)failure of systems integration
C)inadequate user involvement
D)continuation of a project that should have been cancelled

Answer 2

size of the company

Question 3

A software might allow a user to interact via

A)keyboard commands
B)mouse movement
C)voice recognition commands
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 3

all of the mentioned

Question 4

____________helps meet psychological and cognitive processing needs, increases human confidence.

A)attitude
B)feedback
C)visual analysis
D)interaction design

Question 5

What is the fundamental insight underlying the "cognitive walk through" method of evaluation?

A)processes are the most important aspect of the user experience
B)the idea that users can sometimes be left out of the evaluation
C)the idea that users earn by exploring an interface text should be legible and distinguishable from its background under different lighting conditions
D)the idea that experts need to work hand in hand with useers to develop an optimal user experience

Question 6

Which of the following is a design implication of our understanding of human attention?

A)the same kinds of distinctions that a person would feel in the world
B)information than is needed at the present moment for the user
C)sounds should be audible and distinguishable in the user

Question 7

"An informal narrative description of human activities or tasks in a story that allows exploration and discussion of contexts, needs, and requirements" describes which of the following?

A)storyboard
B)scenario
C)use case
D)uml case

Question 8

Mental model is a/ an____________of a device or a system

A)summary of the characteristics of users
B)estimate of mental level of users
C)human representation of the conceptual structure
D)investigation results about mental characteristics of users

Question 9

What is the most important property that prototype should have?

A)should allow the key concepts to be tested with users
B)should support a wide range of user tests
C)should look like the final product
D)should be easy to throw away

Question 10

Metaphor is a cognitive process in which an experience is related to:

A)an already familiar concept
B)a newly created concept
C)an expert rule
D)an organizational rule

Question 11

A simplified model of Human Information Processign include human resources such as:

A)memory
B)strength
C)energy
D)head

Question 12

The design of a keyboard layout reflects the____________concern in HCI

A)cognitive
B)physical
C)usefulness
D)usability

Question 13

Define life cycle model in HCI.

A)none of the mentioned
B)star, usability engineering
C)usability engineering, iterative design
D)star, iterative design

Question 14

Process oriented Main elementIssue, position and argumentsWhich design rationale suite the characteristic above?

A)issue-based information system
B)design space analysis
C)psychological design rationale
D)graphical design rationale

Question 15

Which rule in Schneiderman Golden Rule suite the statement below "For every user action, to simplify new system sign up process, error correction system must be provided to facilitate user"

A)strive for consistency
B)offer informative feedback
C)disign dialogues to yield closure
D)offer error prevention and simple error handling

Question 16

Choose THREE (3) senses in Multi-modal Technology
i. Touch
ii. Smel
Liii. Sound

A)i, ii and iii
B)i, iii and iv
C)i, ii and iv
D)ii, iii and iv

Question 17

Which of the following is the handwriting recognition device?

A)tablet pc
B)lcd monitor
C)keyboard
D)monochrome monitor

Question 18

How many principle in universal design?

A)six
B)seven
C)eight
D)ten

Question 19

Given a scenario where you have a very small user base, which evaluationstrategy would you select:

A)between groups
B)within groups, fixed order tasks
C)within groups, randomised tasks
D)within groups, a combination of fixed and random tasks

Question 20

Which of the following is/are false about Within-group study design?

A)there are two groups of test users
B)there is one group of test users
C)there is a learning effect
D)every test user uses both systems

Question 21

In user experiments, we have a Control Group to:

A)deal with extra people
B)establish a baseline
C)evaluate the default behaviour of people
D)distract people

Question 22

Suppose you have designed two versions of your application and you show themto a set of 10 users one by one for a user study. Which of the following studydesigns does this signify?

A)within-group
B)between-group
C)control-group
D)none of the above

Question 23

Which of the following is true about good design?

A)good design is just cool graphics
B)good design is just common sense
C)good design comes from an iterative process with the user in loop
D)good design can come from fixing the ui at the end

Question 24

HCI design standards include recommendations based on

A)human physical,
B)cognitive
C)affective characteristics
D)all of the above

Question 25

Which of the following is golden rule for interface design?

A)place the user in control
B)reduce the user's memory load
C)make the interface consistent
D)all of the mentioned