HCI Midterm Exam

Protecting the user from dangerous conditions and undesirable situation

• Usability

• Safety

• Efficiency

• Utility

Ease of learning and ease of use.

• Usability

• Safety

• Efficiency

• Utility

A measure of how quickly users can accomplish their goals or finish their work using the system

• Usability

• Safety

• Efficiency

• Utility

Concern a user’s ability to accomplish a desired goal or to carry out work

• Effectiveness

• Safety

• Efficiency

• Utility

Extent of providing the right kind of functionality so that users can do what they need or want to do

• Effectiveness

• Safety

• Efficiency

• Utility

Is the art of combining text and graphics and communicating an effective message in design of posters, brochures, signs, logos & other type of visual communication?

• Graphic Design

• Product Design

• Industrial Design

• UI Designers

Is the process of planning the product's specification?

• Graphic Design

• Product Design

• Industrial Design

• UI Designers

Involves a person’s expectations and his/her ability to determine the results of actions ahead of time

• Predictability

• Conventions

• Generalizability

• Constraints

Will help us use the knowledge we gathered from previous experience and apply it to similar situations

• Predictability

• Generalizability

• Conventions

• Constraints

Allow us to use our intuitions which are based on previous experience and logic; if something is consistently done in a particular way, it will eventually become the conventional way of doing it

• Predictability

• Generalizability

• Conventions

• Constraints