Deck 10: Prototyping Approaches, Interface Design Rules, User Evaluation Methods, and More: Exploring Human-Computer Interaction

Question 1

Which are the main approaches to prototyping (Choose all the correct answers)

A)throw-away prototyping
B)extreme prototyping
C)incremental prototyping
D)evolutionary prototyping

Answer 1

throw-away prototyping

Question 2

Select the Shneiderman's Golden Rules of Interface Design. (choose all the correct options)

A)strive for consistency
B)offer informative feedback for every user action
C)offer error prevention and simple error handling
D)reduce short- term memory load

Answer 2

strive for consistency

Question 3

List the approaches which involves user in evaluation (Choose all the correct options)

A)experimental methods
B)observational methods
C)review methods
D)query methods

Answer 3

experimental methods

Question 4

User-Centered Design is important because: (Choose all the correct options)

A)the users need to be taught to use the design
B)the design should be intuitive enough for users
C)the design should cater specifically to the needs of the users
D)it is necessary to know the user environment while building a design

Question 5

Which of the following is/are a step in the waterfall strategy? (Choose all the correct options)

A)requirement s specification
B)prototyping
C)integration and testing
D)coding

Question 6

GOMS stands for:

A)goals, operation, methods and selection rules
B)goals, objects, models and selection rules
C)goals, operations, methods and state rules
D)goals, operations, models and state rules

Question 7

The aim of hierarchical task analysis is to produce

A)load balancing
B)task simplification
C)factoring
D)task decompositions

Question 8

The description of the user's goals is based on a GOMS-like goal hierarchy, but is expressed primarily using

A)pattern matching
B)production rules.
C)knowledge
D)inference

Question 9

The production rule 'program' is written ________________language.

A)c++
B)c
C)lisp
D)java

Question 10

Root definitions are described in terms of specific elements, summarized using the acronym.

A)catwoe
B)ctweoa
C)coeatw
D)cotwea

Question 11

Groupware systems strive so hard to make the participants' views the same maintaining

A)wyswig
B)wysiwis
C)wiswys
D)wigwys

Question 12

The pace of a conversation reduces, there is a tendency for the __ to increase.

A)chunks
B)granularity
C)small
D)units

Question 13

________approach helps in distinguishing different types of stakeholders.

A)osta
B)ustm
C)direct
D)custom

Question 14

KSLM stands for?

A)keystroke- level model
B)key stroke listen model
C)kay stack large mission
D)key level model

Question 15

______________  has different timing constants for different devices.

A)ergonomics
B)fitts' law
C)predictive model
D)paul fitts

Question 16

____________ is based on very detailed recording of the interactions between people and between people and their environment

A)society
B)environment
C)ethnography
D)civilization

Question 17

a rough idea of a user's activities can be presented via

A)story board
B)drawing
C)images
D)animation

Question 18

Participatory design has three main characteristics

A)work focused
B)collaboration
C)iterative
D)all the three

Question 19

Sessions in which users and designers generate a range of ideas which are developed without judgement.

A)brainstorming
B)thinking
C)advising
D)suggesting

Question 20

A mechanism for learning about complex or ill-defined problems by drawing detailed ("rich") representations of them.

A)image
B)photo
C)rich picture
D)painting

Question 21

The use of gestures or other means of pointing to specify an ambiguous utterance, for instance pointing at a place in a map is

A)orientation
B)direction
C)mention
D)dietic reference

Question 22

____________is the process by which the roles of speaker and listener are exchanged.

A)different
B)alternate
C)turn-taking
D)round robin