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True or False: The human is the one whom computer systems are designed to assist

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True

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There are five major senses: sight, hearing, touch, and smell. Which among the five major senses are the most important to HCI

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Sight, Hearing, Touch

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Part of the eye responsible for color vision

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Cone

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True or False: A low frequency produces a high pitch, a high frequency, a low pitch.

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False

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Stimulus received via receptors in the skin for heat and cold

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Thermoreceptors

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They process of finding solution to unfamiliar task using knowledge

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Problem solving

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It acts as a “scratch pad” for temporary recall

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Repository for all our knowledge

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Long term memory

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A long term memory that is a structured memory of facts, concepts, skills

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Semantic

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True or False: Abductive reasons are often unreliable because it can lead to false explanation

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True

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Is when information is lost gradually but slowly

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Decay

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Information reproduced from memory can be assisted by cues (Categories, Imagery)

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Recall

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It is structured in some way to allow access to information, representation of relationships between pieces of information, and interference

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Semantic memory

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What are Long Term Memory Models

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Semantic network, Frames, Production rules

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It is affected by both size of the object and it’s distance from the eye

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Visual angle

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True or False: The auditory system performs some filtering of the sounds received, allowing us to ignore background noise and concentrate on important information

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True

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It converts BITMAP back into text

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OCR

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18
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A type of scanner, the paper is placed on a glass plate and the whole page converted into bitmap

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Flatbed scanner

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A pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes

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Track ball

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Or can be used to reduce the amount of storage required for text, bitmaps and video

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Compression

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Used in desktop for incorporating photographs and other images

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Scanner

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True or False: Designers tend to assume fast processors and make interfaces more and more complicated

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True

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The simpler version of SGML for web applications

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ASCII

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It is the most common text input device

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Keyboard

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It is composed of vast number of colored or pixels in a rectangular grid
Screen
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True or False: Electrostatic field leaks out through tube to user, intensity dependant on distance and humidity and can cause rashes
True
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It softens the edges of line segments, blurring the discontinuity and making the JAGGIES less obvious
ANTI-ALIASING
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These are screen/monitor that are smaller, lighter, and no radiation problems
LCD
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True or False: The interface designer does not need to be aware of the properties of the devices with which a system is built
False
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It uses lasers to read and sometimes write, and it is more robust than magnetic disk
Optical disks
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A type of printer that use inked ribbon (like a typewriter)
Dot matrix printer
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True or False: The maltron left handed keyboard is not designed to reduce fatigue for Repetitive stain injury
False
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It use dictionary to "guess" the right word
T9 predictive entry
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True or False: Direct view storage (DVST) are used in analogue storage oscilloscope
True
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Diagonal lines that have discontinuities in due to horizontal raster scan process
JAGGIES
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Type of memory that is usually volatile; it's contents are lost when the power is turned off
RAM
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Translations between user and system
Interaction models
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The study of physical characteristics of interaction
Ergonomics
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The nature of user/system dialog
Interaction styles
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Social, Organizational, Motivational
Context
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The area of work under study e.g graphic design
Domain
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What you want to achieve e.g create a solid red triangles
Goal
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These are operations or actions that you performed to achieve your goal
Task
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What are the two major phases of interactive cycle
Execution/, Evaluation
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Slips and mistakes
Human error
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Direct manipulation
Office
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Indirect manipulation
Industrial
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Set of options displayed on the screen
Menus
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Familiar to user Speech recognition or typed natural language
Natural language
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First spreadsheet VisiCalc, followed by lotus 1-2-3
True Spreadsheets
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Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
WIMP interface
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Used in multi media Web browser Hypertext Minimal typing
Point and click interfaces
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Virtual reality
Three dimensional interfaces
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Area of the screen that behave at if they were independent
Windows
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Allow the user to move the contents of the window up and down or from side to side
Scroll bar
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Describe the name of the window
Title bars
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Small picture or image Represents some object in the interface
Icons
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Uses mouse, trackpad, joystick, track ball
Pointers
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Individual and isolated regions within a display that can be selected to invoke an action
Buttons
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Long lines of icons
Toolbar
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Information windows that pop up to inform of an important event or request information
Dialogue boxes
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It involves at least two participants, the user and system
Interaction
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True or False: Goal is what you want to achieve or the desired output from a performed task
True
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True or False: Menus are set of options displayed on screen
True
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The way of expressing instructions to the computer directly
Command line interface
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True or False: The first spreadsheet is Lotus 1-2-3 followed by VisiCalc
False
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A sofisticated variation of form filling, it had grid of cells contain a value or a formula
Spreadsheets
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Default style for majority of interactive computer systems, especially PCs and desktop
WIMP interface
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True or False: Slips if you don't know the system well and you may not even formulate the right goal
False
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True or False: Icons are small picture or image that represents some object in the interface
True
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These are key combinations from the keyboard that has same effect as menu item
Keyboard accelerators
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True or False: The physical design must look good (aesthetic) but it not cost too much (economic)
True

2ND SEM MIDTERM (8 decks)

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