LECTURE 2

Question 1

The deepest challenges in human computer interaction

Answer 1

HUMAN

Question 2

ARe multidisciplinary fields
incorporating contributions from psychology, engineering, industrial
design, statistics, operations research, and anthropometry.

Answer 2

Human factors science or technologies

Question 3

• It is a term that covers the science of understanding the properties of human capability, the application of this understanding to the design, development, and deployment of systems and services.

Answer 3

Human Factors

Question 4

• It seeks to delineate and categorize a problem space

Answer 4

Descriptive Models

Question 5

a descriptive model of the human. It delineates the
problem space by
positioning different types
of human actions in time
frames within which the
actions occur.

Answer 5

Newell’s Time Scale of
human action

Question 6

often use a model showing a human
operator confronting a machine.

Answer 6

Human factors researchers

Question 7

important since it is at the interface where
interaction takes place.

Answer 7

dash vertical line

Question 8

the human ability to receive information
from the environment in the form of visible light perceived by the eye

Answer 8

Vision

Question 9

hugely important, as most people obtain
about 80 percent of their information though the sense of light

Answer 9

Visual Sensory Channel

Question 10

the detection of sound by humans.

Answer 10

Hearing or audition

Question 11

are created when physical objects are moved or vibrated thus
creating fluctuations in air pressure

Answer 11

Sound Waves

Question 12

is transmitted through the environment as sound waves.

Answer 12

Sound