Deck 8: Usability and Design Principles

Question 1

The resources expanded in relation to the accuracy and completeness of goals achieved is called ______________  

A)satisfaction
B)effectiveness
C)efficiency
D)usability

Answer 1

efficiency

Question 2

The accuracy and completeness with which specified users can achieve specified goals in particular environments is called _____________   

A)satisfaction
B)effectiveness
C)efficiency
D)usability

Answer 2

effectiveness

Question 3

Usability testing is conducted in early phases of design.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which of the following is not a component of the usability

A)effectiveness
B)efficiency
C)satisfaction
D)completeness

Question 5

In which type of design rationale preserves order of deliberation and decision-making

A)process- oriented
B)structure- oriented
C)psychology oriented

Question 6

Which of the following checks if we are designing the right product?

A)verification
B)validation
C)testing
D)debugging

Question 7

Which of the following checks if we are designing the product right

A)verification
B)validation
C)testing
D)debugging

Question 8

The goal of interactive systems design is

A)reducing the cost
B)designing for maximum usability
C)working within the constraints
D)none of the above

Question 9

What are the components of usability?

A)efficiency, flexibility, effectiveness
B)efficiency, effectiveness , satisfaction
C)satisfaction, essentiality, flexibility
D)satisfaction, essentiality, effectiveness

Question 10

Which design rationale aims to make explicit consequences in order to better suit a product for the tasks user have?

A)design space analysis
B)psychological design
C)issue based information system
D)none of these

Question 11

The principles that gives the framework to develop universal design

A)equitable use
B)flexibility
C)simple and intuitive to use
D)all the above

Question 12

Which of the following is not a principle of learnability?

A)predictability
B)customizabil ity
C)synthesizability
D)familiarity

Question 13

Consistency is a principle of _______________

A)usability
B)learnability
C)flexibility
D)robustness

Question 14

---------- is the degree to which system services support all the user's task

A)task migratability
B)observability
C)task conformance
D)robustness

Question 15

Which determines effect of future actions based on past interaction history

A)synthesizabil ity
B)predictability
C)familiarity
D)consistency

Question 16

Which of the following principle of usability addresses multithreading?

A)learnability
B)flexibility
C)robustness
D)none of the above

Question 17

The multiplicity of ways the user and system exchange information.

A)flexibility
B)robustness
C)learnability
D)usability

Question 18

Support for the user to extend knowledge of specific interaction within and across applications to other similar situations is called as ----------------

A)predictability
B)generalizabil ity
C)synthesizability
D)none of the above

Question 19

Which of the following is not a characteristics of design patterns?

A)capture design practice
B)capture essential properties
C)simplify tasks
D)represent design knowledge

Question 20

Which evaluation technique is said to "Discount Usability technique"?

A)review-based
B)heuristic evaluation
C)cognitive walkthrough
D)none of these

Question 21

__________________________ is as an attempt to introduce psychological theory into the informal and subjective walkthrough technique

A)heuristic evaluation
B)model based evaluation
C)cognitive walkthrough
D)review based

Question 22

Universal design which means designing for diversity includes

A)people of same age group
B)people with sensory, physical or cognitive impairment
C)people from same cultures and backgrounds
D)none of the above

Question 23

It is the intervention, part of the goal and constraints when creating a software.

A)navigation
B)design
C)users
D)scenario

Question 24

Aim of Evaluation is to test _____________ 

A)functionality
B)usability of the design
C)acceptability
D)all of the above

Question 25

Who proposed heuristic evaluation?

A)nielson and molich
B)allen newell
C)thomas p.moron
D)stuart k.card