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Human Computer Interaction

Subject : engineering
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1. Menu constraints can help the user to form the proper intentions and specify the proper action sequence - provide a context to evaluate the output language






2. Structuring the information space - Creating of alternative solutions - Determining which design concept to purse






3. Overload - Feedback - Recognition/Recall - Orientation






4. 1.easy to learn2.low memory requirements 3.easy to undo 4.immediate feedback to user actions 5.enable user to use spatial cues 6.easy for beginner






5. They are not interactive - They cannot be used to calculate response timings - They do not deal with interface issues such as color or font size






6. 1.require valid input in valid format 2.require familiarity with interface control 3.can be tedious to correct mistakes






7. Goals - Execution - World - Evaluation






8. Brainstorming - Card sort - Semantic Networks - Personas - Scenarios - Flowcharts - Cognitive walkthrough - Use cases






9. The range of possible intentions is consistently wide - users usually have multiple options for specifying action sequences - provide multiple ways of executing action sequence






10. Observation - elicitation






11. They can be difficult to create f the target audience is international - Having too many personas will make the work difficult - There is a risk of incorporating unsupported designer assumption






12. Establishing the goal - Forming the intention - Specifying the action sequence - Execute the action sequence - Perceiving the world state - Interpreting the perception - Evaluate the interpretation






13. 1.require valid input supplied by user 2.require familiarity with interface control 3.can be tedious to correct mistakes






14. They allow an easy way to explore the problem space - They provide a way to create clusters of related elements - They provide a graphical view of the problem space - They resonate with the ways in which people process information






15. Direct indirect - corporate documentation - logs and notes - questionnaires






16. Consistency-Correctness - Generalizability - Conventions - Familiarity - Location - Modes






17. 1.low memory requirements 2. self- explanatory 3.can gather a great deal of information in little space 4.present a context for input information






18. 1.creating descriptions of the people who do the work 2.describing the different goals involved in the work 3.documenting the work step by step 4.creating different stories about how the various aspects of the work are done 5.creating charts and diag






19. Direct - indirect - ethnographic observation - distributed cognition






20. Unscientific - Partial - Unstable - Inconsistent - Personal






21. Graphical libraries - User interface toolkits - Visual interface builders - Web development tools






22. They only involve the elements that you have written on the cards - They suggest solutions that imply structure - They become difficult to navigate with more categories






23. Participants - design - tester






24. Translating the user's task language into the input language requires knowledge of the core language - The output language can be confusing for inexperienced users - there is very little feedback






25. 1. low memory requirements 2. self- explanatory 3.easy to undo errors 4. sppropriate for beginners






26. We respond first to the intensity of a stimulus and only then do we begin to process its meaning






27. Minimize help desk calls - increase product loyalty - Provide benchmarks for future products






28. Speech input 1.hands - free operation 2.poor lighting situations 3.mobile application 4.in the home - speech output 5.on - board navigational systems






29. 1.They facilitate the development of design procedures 2.They help in finding ways to talk about design 3.They create project management






30. Location - Logical Grouping - Conventions - Redundancy






31. Artificial context - Not definitive od product acceptance - Skewed sample of uses - Not always efficient






32. 1. Visibility of System Status 2. Match between System and the Real World 3. User Control and Freedom 4. Consistency and Standards 5. Error Prevention 6. Recognition Rather Than Recall 7. Flexibility and Efficiency of Use 8. Aesthetic and Minimalist


33. Task analysis - storyboarding - use cases - primary stakeholder profiles






34. 1.language is ambiguous 2.meaning depends on context 3.dependent on visual cues






35. Menu options create small articulatory distance






36. They increase productivity - They offer constraint and consistency checks - They facilitate team approaches - They ease maintenance






37. 1.low memory requirement 2. self- explanatory 3. simple linear presentation 4.easy for beginner






38. 1.rapid and inflexible navigation 2.inefficient for large menu navigation 3.inefficient use of screen real estate 4. slow for expert






39. Effectiveness/Usefulness 1.Utility 2.Safety(Recovery) 3.Flexibility(Customization) 4.Stability - Efficiency/Usability






40. Time - finance - personnel - laboratory






41. Functionality->presentation filter | (comprehensibility barrier)| efficiency usability ->|(learnability barrier) | Effectiveness Usefulness






42. 1.free phase 2.captive phase 3. termination phase






43. They are quick and easy to perform - They can be done before any preliminary designs have been made - They will let you know how people organize information - They will expose underlying structures






44. Determine the function of the device - Determine what actions are possible - Determine mapping from intention to physical movement - Perform the action - Determine whether the system is in the desired state - Determine the mapping from system state t






45. 1. speech recognition 2. semantic - grammar issues - vague meanings - contradictory statement






46. Gulfs of execution relate to the effectiveness principle - Gulfs of evaluation relate to the efficiency principle






47. Low- fidelity prototypes - Evaluations - Wireframes - Functional prototypes






48. Comprehensibility and learnability






49. User interface independence 1.They separate interface design from internals 2.They enable multiple user interface strategies 3. They enable multiple platform support 4. They establish the role of the user interface architect 5. They enforce standards






50. Use multiple independent evaluators - Use observer to record evaluator - Go through interface several times - Compare interaction against list of heuristics - Use heuristics specific to design - List heuristic problems and how the heuristic is violat