HCI Design Rules

Question 1

This is achieving goals within constraints

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Design

Question 2

This is the purpose of the design we are intending to produce

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Goals

Question 3

This is the limitations on the design process by external factors

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Constrains

Question 4

This is choosing which goals or constrains can be relaxed so that others can be met.

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Trade-off

Question 5

This revolves around the features of an interactive system that allow novice

Question 5

This focuses on usability, execution, and assessment of computer systems.

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Human Computer Interaction

Question 6

This talks about Encompasses design, execution, and assessment of computer systems.

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Human Computer Interaction

Question 6

This is applicable across various disciplines with computer installations

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Human Computer Interaction

Question 7

What are the importance of HCI Design Rules?

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1. Address usability consequences of design decisions.
2. Prevent designers from pursuing options leading to unusable systems.
3. Integrates knowledge from psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and computational theory.

Question 8

This is an event where it resulted from misinterpreted signals due to poorly designed control panel.

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident (1979)

Question 9

This are normative, fostering conformity to core values and approaches

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Scientific Disciplines

Question 10

This processes encourage adherence to established norms in research

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Peer Review

Question 11

This equips designers with tools for comprehending social contexts and organizing observations

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Contextual Inquiry

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This aids in deriving models for design based primarily on interview data

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Contextual Inquiry

Question 13

This is suitable for those lacking the training or time for ethnographic research

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Contextual Inquiry

Question 14

This offers methods for designers to transition from controlled laboratory settings to real world scenarios for design inspiration.

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Contextual Inquiry

Question 15

This features enabling novice users to understand and attain maximal system performance

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Learnability

Question 16

This uses past user knowledge to ease interaction with new systems

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Predictability

Question 17

This is where users need to know which actions can be executed for effective interaction

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Predictability

Question 18

This enables users to assess the effect of past operations on the current system state

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Synthesizability

Question 19

This relies on honest user interface, providing clear feedback about system changes

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Synthesizability

Question 20

This utilizes users’ past experiences with other applications, both real-life and computer-based

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Familiarity

Question 21

This is where users extend specific interaction behaviors to similar, previously unknown situations

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Generalization

Question 22

This is where similarities in behavior across situations or task objectives

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Consistency

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This is the diverse ways users and systems exchange information

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Flexibility

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This is the user initiates actions

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User Pre-Emptive

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This is where the system initiates actions, user responds

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System Pre-Emptive

Question 26

It is the ability to support more than one task of the user system dialog interaction at a time.

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Multithreading

Question 27

This supports simultaneous communication for separate tasks

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Concurrent Multithreading

Question 28

This allows temporal overlap between tasks but restricts communication to one task at a time

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Interleaved Multithreading

Question 29

This talks about the ability to transfer control between system and user, enabling system changes and error recovery

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Task Migratability

Question 30

This is the equivalent values that can be substituted, enhancing system flexibility

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Substitutivity

Question 31

This is about the user/system can modify the user interface for adaptability

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Customizability

Question 32

This supports user actions and assesses outcomes

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Robustness

Question 33

This allows users to evaluate system state through perceivable interface representation

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Observability

Question 34

This allows exploring the system’s internal state without modifications

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Browsability

Question 35

This suggests words or options based on user input, aiding passive recall

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Default

Question 36

This enables navigation through observable states.

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Reachability

Question 37

This deals with the duration of observable states.

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Persistence

Question 38

This ensures system services support user tasks clearly and comprehensibly

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Task Performance

Question 39

This is the System’s ability to recover from errors

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Recoverability

Question 40

This talks about the forward error recovery navigates from error state to desired state.

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Recoverability

Question 41

This is the backward error recovery undoes previous actions to return to a pre-error state

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Recoverability

Question 42

This is the short, stable durations for system-user communication

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Responsiveness

Question 43

This is the consistent response times essential for user anticipation and understanding

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Responsiveness

Question 44

This ensures the system allows users to perform tasks as expected

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Task Conformance

Question 45

These are set by national/international bodies to ensure design compliance

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Standards

Question 46

What is the focus on usability

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Effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction in task accomplishment

Question 47

What are Sneiderman’s 8 Golden Rule

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1. Strive for consistency.
2. Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.
3. Offer informative feedback.
4. Design dialogs to yield closure.
5. Offer error prevention and simple error handling.
6. Permit easy reversal of actions.
7. Support internal locus of control.
8. Reduce short-term memory load.

Question 48

What is Norman’s 7 Principle

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1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge the gulfs of Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints, both natural and artificial.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.