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Human Computer Interaction

Subject : engineering
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1. Comprehensibility and learnability






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. Time - finance - personnel - laboratory






10. 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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. Physical - cultural - functional - informational






17. 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






18. Location - Logical Grouping - Conventions - Redundancy






19. 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






20. 1.ease of learning - 2.low memory requirement - 3.flexible interaction - 4.low screen requirement - 5. sppropriate for beginner






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Easy and inexpensive to make - Flexible enough to be constantly changed and rearranged - Complete enough to yield useful feedback about specific design questions






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






28. Overload - Feedback - Recognition/Recall - Orientation






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






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






31. 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






32. Observation - elicitation






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






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






35. 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


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






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






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






39. 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






40. Direct - indirect - ethnographic observation - distributed cognition






41. 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






42. Participants - design - tester






43. 1.command line 2.menu- based interface 3.form fill- in 4.question and answers 5.direct manipulation 6.metaphors 7.web navigation 8.3d environments 9.zoomable interface 10.natural language






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






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






46. Unscientific - Partial - Unstable - Inconsistent - Personal






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






48. 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






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






50. Goals - Execution - World - Evaluation