finals

Question 1

This refers to producing an emotional response.

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Affective

Question 2

When this doesnt work properly or crashes, it may cause irritability to the user.

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Application

Question 3

The user might be angry if this doesnt do what the user wants it to do.

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System

Question 4

It may cause problems if this is not met.

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User expectation

Question 5

This pop up as a result of unsuccessful functionalities and are vague, obtuse or condemning.

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Error Messages

Question 6

The ___ of the interface can be an eyesore if its to noisy, garish, gimmicky or patronizing

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Appearance

Question 7

This can happen when clicking on a link to a website only to discover that it is still under construction.

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Gimmick

Question 7

This should be treated as how to fix it messages and should state the cause of the problem and what the user needs to do to fix it.

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Error Messages

Question 7

This is an excessive number of operations, represented at the interface as banks of icons or cascading menus.

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Featuritis

Question 7

a whole new genre of cartoon and life like characters has begun appearing on our computer screens as e commerce assistants that give us information about products.

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Vitual Agents

Question 8

This lifecycle follows a similar thread to our interaction design model but includes considerably more details.

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Usability engineering lifecycle

Question 9

These are those affected by the introduction of the system or who will influence its purchase.

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Tertiary Users

Question 10

used to represent a modelthat captures a set of activities and how they are related. The reasons such model is popular is that they allow developers and particularly

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Lifecycle models

Question 11

this lifecycle emerged from the empirical work they did looking at how interface designers went about their work and has analytic mode and synthetic mode.

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star lifecycle method

Question 12

this development method is only a generic process and must be tailored for a particular organization.

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Dynamic systems development model

Question 13

this development method breaks down a large project into many smaller projects that can deliver products incrementally, and enhances flexibility in terms of the development techniques used in the maintainability of the final system.

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Graphic application development

Question 14

This development method workshops in which user and developers come together to thrash out the requirements of the system where the representatives from each identified stakeholder group should be involved in each workshop so that all the relevant views can be heard.

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Joint app development

Question 15

this model incorporates them in an iterative framework that allows ideas and progress to be repeatedly checked and evaluated

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spiral lifecycle model

Question 16

this lifecycle method was the first model generally known in software engineering, forms the basis of many lifecycles in use today and a linear model in which each step must be completed before the next step can be started

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waterfall lifecycle model

Question 17

this model is not intended to be prescriptive and is based on our observations of interaction design and on information

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simple lifecycle model

Question 18

this implies that the client or users know the requirements and has to tell the developers

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elicitation

Question 19

this is the activity of investigating and analyzing an initial set of requirements that have been gathered, elicited or captured.

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requirements analysis

Question 20

this ensures that a system must be able to run on a variety of platforms

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non functional requirements

Question 21

this capture what the product should do.

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functional requirements

Question 22

this capture the type, volatility, size, amount, persistence, accuracy and value of the amounts of the required data.

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data requirements

Question 23

this refers to the circumstances in which the interactive product will be expected to operate

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environmental requirements

Question 24

these capture the characteristics of the intended user group

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user requirements

Question 25

these capture the usability goals and associated measures for a particular product

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usability requirements

Question 26

this aims to begin structuring and recording descriptions of requirements

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interpretation

Question 27

techniques for investigating cognitive processes and physical actions at a high level of abstraction and in minute detail

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task analysis

Question 28

this allows stakeholders to interact with an envisioned product, to gain some experience of using it in a realistic setting and to explore imagined uses

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prototype

Question 29

these prototypes are simple, cheap and quick to modify so they support the exploration of alternative designs and ideas

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low fidelity prototypes

Question 30

these consists of a series of sketches showing how auser might progress through a task using the device being developed

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storyboard

Question 31

this assumes that you have a software based prototype. In this technique,the user sits at a computer screen and interacts with the software as though interacting with the product

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wizard of oz

Question 32

this prototyping uses materials that you would expect to be on the final product and produces a prototype that looks much more like the final thing

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high fidelity prototypes

Question 33

this refers to the description of the proposed system in terms of a set of integrated ideas and concepts about what it should do, behave and look like that will be understandable by the users in the manner intended

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conceptual model

Question 34

this can be used to explicate existing work situations but they are more commonly used for expressing proposed or imagined situations to help in conceptual design

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scenarios

Question 35

this is the widget that makes sure that the relevant information is available for the task is one aspect of information display but another concerns the format.

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information display

Question 36

this widget provides users with a choice of commands or a choice of options related to a command

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menu design

Question 37

this is used to get feedback on emerging designs and this feebback may be from users or from

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prototyping