Final Exam- Identification

Question 1

A designer can follow rules to increase the usability of the system/product, e.g., principles, standards, and guidelines.

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Design Rules

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Author of Eight Golden Rules for Designing User Interfaces, recognized for creating intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient interfaces.

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BEN SHNEIDERMAN

Question 3

Use consistent terminology, layout, and design throughout the interface.

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Consistency

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Design for users of all ages, abilities, and experience levels.

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Universal Usability

Question 5

Provide feedback to users for every action they take.

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Informative Feedback

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Organize tasks into groups with clear beginnings, middles, and ends.

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Dialogue

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Design the interface to minimize the risk of users making mistakes.

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Error handling

Question 8

Allow users to undo their actions.

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Permit Reversal of Actions

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Give users control over the interface

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Keep users in control

Question 10

Minimize the information users need to remember.

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Reduce short-term memory load

Question 11

An approach to reusing knowledge about successful design solutions. A pattern is an invariant solution to a recurrent problem within a specific context.

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Design Pattern

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This pattern gives the program more flexibility in deciding which objects need to be created for a given case.

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Creational

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This pattern focuses on decoupling the interface and implementation of classes and their objects.

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Structural

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This type deals with the communication between classes and objects.

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Behavioural

Question 15

Evaluate design on how well it supports the user in learning tasks.

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Cognitive Walkthrough

Question 16

Evaluate the usability of a design or system.

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Heuristic Evaluation

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Results from the literature used to support or refute parts of the design.

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Review-based evaluation

Question 18

Controlled evaluation of specific aspects of interactive behavior.

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Experimental Evaluation

Question 19

to collect sufficient, accurate, and relevant data so that a set of stable requirements can be produced.

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Data Gathering

Question 20

Quietly watching and noting behaviors, actions, or processes

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Observational Methods

Question 21

Examples of these techniques are INTERVIEW and QUESTIONARES.

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Query Techniques

Question 22

The analyst questions the user on a one-to-one basis usually based on prepared questions.

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Interview

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Set of fixed questions given to users.

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Questionnaires

Question 24

involve measuring and analyzing physical responses and activities in the body to gain insights into user experiences or system performance.

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Physiological Methods

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Design of products and environment to be useable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design

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**Universal Design**

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the design is useful and marketable to people with diverse abilities.

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**Equitable**

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The design accommodates a wide range of individuals’ preferences and abilities.

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**Flexibility in use**

Question 28

Use for design is easy to understand, regardless of the user experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.

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**Simple and intuitive to use**

Question 29

The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user’s sensory abilities

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**Perceptible Information**

Question 30

Design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.

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**Tolerance for error**

Question 31

Design can be used efficiently and comfortably and with a minimum of fatigue.

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**Low physical effort**

Question 32

Appropriate size and space are provided for approach reach, manipulator, and use regardless of the user's body size, posture, or mobility.

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**Size and space for approach and use**

Question 33

this are are systems that utilize human sensors (Speech, touch, sight, etc.) for inputs and interaction.

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**Multi-sensory systems**

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use more than one sense (or mode) of interaction.

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**Mutli-modal System**

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use several different media to communicate information.

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**Multi-Media System**

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composed of introduction, body, and conclusion.

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**Structure of Speech**

Question 37

encompass a wide range, including ambient noises, musical tones, and environmental sounds. They play a crucial role in our auditory experiences and can convey emotions, context, or information without words.

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**Non-Speech Sounds**

Question 38

Use natural sounds to represent different types of objects or actions.

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**Auditory Icons**

Question 39

is a crucial aspect of universal design, allowing individuals to communicate with computers or devices using handwritten input.

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**Handwriting Recognition**

Question 40

is the assistance provided to software users when encountering technical issues or questions regarding the product or service.

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**User Support**

Question 41

The user requests help on a particular command and is presented with a help screen on the manual page describing it.

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**Command Assistance**

Question 42

In command line interfaces CP provides help when the user encounters an error, usually in the form of correct usage prompts.

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**Command Prompt**

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help request interpreted according to the context in which it occurs. e.g. tooltips.

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**Context Sensitive Help**

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The user works through the basics of the application in a test environment.

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**Online Tutorial**

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paper documentation is made available on the computer.

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**Online Documentation**

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task-specific tool leads the user through the task, step by step, using the user’s answers to specific questions.

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**Wizards**

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monitor user behavior and offer contextual advice

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**Assistants**

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is a distinct category of assistive technology and an established area of study at the relationship of HCI.

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**Adaptive Help System**

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Adaptable systems allow the user to provide a model of himself around which the system will be configured by adjusting preferences.

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**User modeling**

Question 50

Some help systems build a model of the user’s current task or plan, which can be accomplished by representing user tasks in terms of the used command sequences.

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**Domain and Task Modeling**

Question 51

defines an area of expertise and knowledge in some real-world activity and it consists of concepts that highlight its important aspects.

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**Domain**

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is the operation to manipulate the concepts of a domain. A goal is the desired output from a performed task.

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**Task**

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Knowledge represented as rules or facts.

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**Rule-Based**

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Knowledge stored in a structure with slots to be filled.

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**FRAME BASED**

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Knowledge represented as relationships between facts.

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**NETWORK BASED**

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Knowledge represented implicitly within decision structure.

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**EXAMPLE BASED**

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is an informative representation of an object, person, or system.

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**Model**

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a statement of an opinion or an explanation of an idea that is believed to be true, but might be wrong

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**Theories**

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is an area of computer science that deals with the simulation of human problem-solving and mental processing in a computer model.

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**COGNITIVE MODEL**

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is a family of predictive models of human performance that can be used to improve the efficiency of human-machine interaction by identifying and eliminating unnecessary user actions.

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**GOALS, OPERATOR, METHOD, AND SELECTION**(GOMS)

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what the user wants to achieve

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**Goals**

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basic actions the user performs.

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**Operator**

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decomposition of a goal into sub-goals/operators.

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**Method**

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user’s personal rules to choose one several methods

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**Selection**

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is the study of how a user will complete any certain task successfully.

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**Task Analysis**

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software engineering notations used to specify the required behavior of specific interactive systems.

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**Standard Formalism**

Question 67

special-purpose mathematical models of interactive systems used to describe usability properties at a generic level.

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**Interaction Models**

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activity between the events, objects with continuous motion, models of time.

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**Continuous Behaviour**

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is a term for applications written to support the collaboration of several users.

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**Groupware**

Question 70

wherein people use computers and networks to communicate with one another, makes communication across great distances and different time zones convenient, eliminating the time and geographic constraints of in-person communicate.

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**Computer-Mediated Communication** (CMC)