HCI Test 1

__________ helps meet psychological and cognitive processing needs, increases human confidence.

• Attitude

• Feedback

• Visual Analysis

• Interaction Design

Roughly ___________ percent of the male population has some degree of colour blindness.

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen?

• Action

• Evaluation

• Execution

• None of the above

__________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range of possibilities available for a selection.

• Perception

• Recognition

• Attention

• Learning

Evaluation done during design to check that product continues to meet users'needs are known as __________ evaluation

• Summative

• Formative

• Relative

• Qualitative

What are the elements of the Gulf of Execution?

• Information processing elements involved in working out what the system did

• Information processing elements involved in working out how to interact with the system

• Forming intentions, specifying right action, selecting appropriate interface mechanism

• Processing the interface, interpreting interface information, and assessing information meaning

When conducting an investigation with human participants for research, which provision(s) for consent must be made?

• Approval of the research by properly constituted ethics committee independent of the researchers

• Participants informed they do not have to take part if they do not want to

• Participants fully informed of their right and withdraw from the investigation without consequences to them

• All of the above

What is the fundamental insight underlying the "cognitive walk through" method of evaluation?

• The idea that cognitive processes are the most important aspect of the user experience

• The idea that users can sometimes be left out of the evaluation

• The idea that users earn by exploring an interface

• The idea that experts need to work hand in hand with useers to develop an optimal user experience

What is "affordance" according to Norman (1999)

• The return on investment of the user centered design process

• The opportunity cost of not using user centered design

• Property of an object that indicates to people how to use the product

• An instruction on an interface signalling how to use the interface

Which of the following is a design implication of our understanding of human attention?

• Tactile feedback should make the same kinds of distinctions that a person would feel in the world

• Avoid cluttering the interface with more information than is needed at the present moment for the user

• Text should be legible and distinguishable from its background under different lighting conditions

• Sounds should be audible and distinguishable in the user