Lecture 2b

Question 1

Outrage of the week: menu design for car modes

Answer 1

not all options are mutually exclusive, don’t have iconic support, have bad nomenclature

Question 2

Outrage of the week: Wayfair ad…what did it lack?

Answer 2

lacks visual momentum, doesn’t carry context to the clicked link and lets go of the hook

Question 3

Outrage of the week: seat controls in cars

Answer 3

example of control consistency, and lack thereof in the automotive industry

Question 4

What is an example of global processing failure?

Answer 4

A can of cooking spray and bug repellent that look exactly the same; two different medications in identical bottles, doesn’t force you to use local processing

Question 5

What is an emergent feature?

Answer 5

an element that gives information that’s not found in the subset of information; the slope of a line on a graph; a global property of a set of stimuli that is not evident as each stimulus is seen in isolation; goal based dimension

Question 6

Lecture example of object display.

Answer 6

the NASA AMES wind tunnel solution where a cross hair identified the current state of matter for propane when the two variables of T and P aligned

Question 7

What is the proximity-compatibility principle?

Answer 7

If two or more sources of information are compared, the displays should be integrated (close together with common color, form, emergent feature, etc.); if operator needs to focus attention on one source while ignoring others, the displays should be separated

Question 8

What is control display proximity?

Answer 8

place controls and tools that action information close together