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Human Computer Interaction

Subject : engineering
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1. 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






2. They can be used early and often - They are inexpensive and easy to create - They make design idea visual - No special knowledge is required - all team members can create them






3. 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






4. They are quick and easy to create - They provide a consistent model for all team members - They are easy to use with other design methods - They make the user real in the mind of the designer






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






6. Time - finance - personnel - laboratory






7. 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


8. Ease of Learning - Efficiency of use - Memorability - Error frequency and severity - Subjective satisfaction






9. What it will look like - What components it will require - How the screens will be laid out






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






11. Intention formation - specification of the action - and the execution stages are complex - Require a rather accurate mental model of the computer's internal processing






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






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






14. 1. the people who are involved with the work 2. the things they use to do the work - 3. the process that are involved in the work - 4. the information required to do the work - 5. the constraints imposed on the work - 6. the inputs required by the wo






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






16. 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


17. Unscientific - Partial - Unstable - Inconsistent - Personal






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






19. Menu options create small articulatory distance






20. 1.not self- explanatory 2.inefficient use of screen real estate 3.high graphical system requirements






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






22. 1.require knowledge of the task domain - 2.may require tedious clarification dialogues - 3.complex system development






23. Progressive Disclosure - Constraints






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






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






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






27. Physical - cultural - functional - informational






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. They require knowledge of problem space - They can lead beyond the problem space - There is no formal semantics for defining symbol meaning






36. 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






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






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






39. Participants - design - tester






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






41. Location - Logical Grouping - Conventions - Redundancy






42. Articulatory distance is large because we are presented with the command prompt - no indication of functionality






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 1.low command retention 2. steep learning curve 3.high error rates 4.heavy reliance on memory 5.frustrating for novice users






48. Primary - secondary - facilitator - indirect






49. They make it possible to try out ideas very early - They make it possible to test - revise - test - revise...They engage end users -- managers and customers






50. Comprehensibility and learnability