Introductory Flashcards
What is the ACM definition of HCI?
What is the definition of User Interface?
What is an interface?
User interface
A program that controls a display for the user and that allows the user to interact with the system.
Apps, Web browsers, e-mail clients, productivity applications
You don’t necessarily need a computer or a screen
Microwave, Fridge, Chair
List the things that can contribute to bad design
- Working in groups - The team might make the mistake
- Constraints (being rushed
- When you are not the typical user
- Your own biases
- Thinking “It’s just common sense…“Beware the Dunning-Kruger effect
- People with zero training are much more confident than they should be (the less you know, the more you think you know about something or the more you know, the more you know you don’t know)
What are the core components of this course?
- To get hands-on experience with multiple design methods: involcing users, prototyping, testing
- How to design, build and evaluate
What are the main components of Design
What are the components of Build?
What are the components of Evaluate?
What is the difference between an interface and interaction?
Draw the Interactive Cycle
In the Interactive Cycle, what constitutes the interface?
In the Interactive Cycle, what constitutes the interaction?
What are the 5 steps of the Interactive Cycle?
In the Interactive Cycle, both the user and the system are required to make several translations, what are they?
From the user’s intention to system input language
From the input language to core system language
From cor system language to output channel
From output channel to user’s interpretation of output
What is the Gulf of Execution?
What is the Gulf of Evaluation?
In general, how does the interface impact the user’s task?