HCI Quiz 3

Question 1

translation between user and system

Answer 1

interaction model

Question 2

physical characteristics of interaction

Answer 2

ergonomics (human factors)

Question 3

nature of user <-> system dialog

Answer 3

interaction style

Question 4

communication between user and system

Answer 4

interaction

Question 5

area of work under study

Answer 5

domain

Question 6

the thing you need to do, how will you do it
operands to manipulate the concepts of a domain

Answer 6

task

Question 7

what you want to achieve
desired output

Answer 7

goal

Question 8

action needed to be done to achieve goal

Answer 8

intention

Question 9

How many stages does Donald Norman’s Model has?

Answer 9

7

Question 10

Gulf of execution vs. gulf of evaluation

Answer 10

gulf of execution — user formulates action
gulf of evaluation — user expectation of changed system in terms of his goal

Question 11

understood but wrong action

Answer 11

slip

Question 12

did not understood at all

Answer 12

mistake

Question 13

user, input, system, output

Answer 13

Abowd and Beale Framework

Question 14

it is good at defining standards and guidelines for constraining the way we design certain aspects of system

Answer 14

ergonomics

Question 15

• dials and knobs

Answer 15

industrial interface

Question 16

much cheaper and more flexible
not physically located

Answer 16

glass interface

Question 17

office — artificial world

Answer 17

direct manipulation

Question 18

industrial — real world

Answer 18

indirect manipulation

Question 19

expressing instructions to computer directly

Answer 19

command line interface

Question 20

set of options displayed on the screen

Answer 20

menus

Question 21

familiar to user
speech recognition or typed natural language

Answer 21

natural language

Question 22

series of questions (novice users) IS

Answer 22

Question interfacce

Question 23

retrieve data from database

Answer 23

query language(SQL)

Question 24

data entry/retrieval – screen like paper

Answer 24

form-fills

Question 25

eg. VISICALC, LOTUS 1-2-3, MS Excel
sophisticated variation of form filling

Answer 25

spreadsheets

Question 26

meaning of WIMP

Answer 26

windows, icons, menus, pointers

Question 27

highlighting, visual afforable

Answer 27

ordinary window systems

Question 28

extra virtual space, light, distance effect

Answer 28

3d workspaces

Question 29

areas in screen - independent

Answer 29

windows

Question 30

more contents ^v or <>

Answer 30

scrool bars

Question 31

describe the name of the window

Answer 31

title bars

Question 32

small picture — interface

Answer 32

icons

Question 33

important element
uses a mouse, wide variety of graphical mages

Answer 33

pointers

Question 34

choice of operand

Answer 34

menus

Question 35

mouse hold drag down

Answer 35

pull-down menu

Question 36

mouse clicks reveals

Answer 36

drop-down menu

Question 37

mouse – bar

Answer 37

fall-down menu

Question 38

actions for selected object

Answer 38

pop-up menu

Question 39

arranged in circle

Answer 39

pie menu

Question 40

hierarchical menu structure, new - new - new

Answer 40

cascading menu

Question 41

can be selected to include an action

Answer 41

buttons

Question 42

set mutually exclussive choice (1 answer only)

Answer 42

radio buttons

Question 43

set non-exclusssive choices (multiple answers)

Answer 43

check boxes

Question 44

long lines of actions

Answer 44

toolbars

Question 45

little windows of action

Answer 45

palettes

Question 46

pop-up to infrom important things (eg. want to save?)

Answer 46

dialogue boxes

Question 47

affected by social and organizational contex

Answer 47

context

Question 48

tell people what to do

Answer 48

coercion

Question 49

explain corporate values

Answer 49

enculturation

Question 50

design process

Answer 50

emergence

Question 51

rapidly improving but still inaccrate

Answer 51

speech-driven interface