Cs408 - Human Computer Interaction

For Final Term

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_____________ is like the building name for a website.

► Site ID P/287
► Navigation
► Section
► None of the given

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use

with the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.
► Co-discovery
► Active intervention P/276
► Splendid research
► None of the given

__________ is the extra work that satisfies the needs to achieve our objective.
► Evaluation
► Excise P/245
► Testing
► None of the given

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________

► Functional and data elements P/206, Lect#24
► View
► Input method
► None of the given

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult
and tiring to write and observe at the same time.
► Audio recording
► Taking notes P/365, Lecture # 40
► Observation
► Video

Every page within a site should contain a brief _________ that accurately describes
the content of the page.
► Site ID.
► Header
► Local Navigation
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 ► Search button

______________ applications are great platforms for creating an environment rich,

in visual feedback for the user.
► Sovereign P/222
► Transient
► Auxiliary
► Daemonic

What is the fifth step in defining the requirements with respect to persona-based
design?
► Brainstorming.
► Identifying persona expectations
► Constructing the context scenario
► Identifying needs P/200

You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.
► Physical constraints (Google)
► Logical constraints
► Cultural constraints
► None of these

____________ are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious

deliberation.
► Slips, mistakes P/100
► Errors, slips
► Mistakes, errors
► Mistakes, slips

What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human
problem solving?
► It operates within the constraints of the human processing system P/91
► It explains what is involved in insight
► It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
► None of these

___________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from the range of possibilities available.
► Perception and recognition
► Attention P/76
► Learning
► None of these

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 Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers “404
894 6743″ because
► Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.
► The grouping of the numbers is significant
► Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
► None of these

___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.

► Attentive P/418
► Non-attentive
► Visual
► Sensing

___________ involves watching and listening to users.

► Observation P/361
► Evaluation
► Qualitative research
► Interaction

The name of the document should be shown on the application’s__________.

A. Menu bar
B. Title bar
C. Title bar and menu bar
D. Not Title bar and not menu bar
► Only B P/326
► Only D
► A and B
► A and D

The established standard suite of _________ for most applications consists of the Save
As dialog, the Save Changes dialog, and the Open File dialog.
► OS management
► File management P/325
► Data management
► Application management

_________ is the remarkable facility that lets us reverse a previous action.

► Redo
► Undo P/310
► Repeat
► Delete

Explanatory undo is, generally, a much more pleasant feature than ___________.
► Single Undo
► Multiple undo
► Blind undo P/312
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 ► Incremental Undo

Browser Title always contains the word ‘_______’.

► Home P/300
► Default
► Error
► Browser

Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-

apprentice model of learning.
► True
► False P/176

Contextual inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice model

of learning:

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color
blindness.
► 10 P/358__ Lecture- 39
► 20
► 30
► 40

The _____________ is a concrete expression of the more abstract structure of the

site.
► Skeleton P/306
► Scope
► Strategy
► Structure

____________ are the street signs of the web.

► Site IDs
► Home pages
► Page Names P/391
► Sections

______________ is not like other pages; it has different burdens to bear, different
promises to keep.
► Homepage P/287
► Form
► Navigation bar
► Sections

The ___________ suggests identifying goals and questions first before selecting
techniques for the study
► RVM model

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 ► DECIDE framework P/367
► Usability testing
► Field study

Number of keystrokes is ____________ work.

► Logical
► Mnemonic
► Physical P/212 __ Lecture-25
► Structural

Recalling password is ____________ work.

► Logical
► Mnemonic P/212 __ Lecture-25
► Physical
► Structural

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona
► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative

_________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several

problems that currently plague the development of digital products.
1. Scenario
2. Persona P/187__ Lecture-22
3. Prototype

The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

1. Gulf of Execution P/103__ Lecture -12
2. Gulf of Evaluation
3. None of these

Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from
the range of
1. Possibilities available P/76
2. Time Available
3. None of these

The goals of HCI are :

1. Usability and User Experience
2. Learn ability and Comfort
3. Tasks and Goals.

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While there can be wide variations in where and how you conduct a usability test,
every usability test shares:
1. Three Characteristics
2. Five Characteristics P/270
3. Seven Characteristics

WYSIWYG stands for ____________.

? Where you see is where you get
? What you see is what you get P/36, Lecture-4
? When you see it when you get

____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

 Pitch
 Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
 Timber

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

? True
? False P/189, Lecture_22

__________ is the extra work that satisfies the needs to achieve our objective.
Evaluation
Excise P/245
Testing

In an email application configuring a new email server is a key path activity.

► True
► False

_____________ are perhaps the least-documented patterns, but they are

nonetheless in widespread use.
► Postural
► Structural P/217
► Behavioral
► Mnemonic

The way people carry out an activity in the real world is same as how it may be
observed in the laboratory
► True
► False P/256

Hence the way people carry out an activity (e.g., preparing a report) in

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the real world is very different from how it may be observed in a laboratory (page:256)

Engineering a user interface involves a quantitative engineering style of working in

which measurements are used to judge the quality of interface. Hence ____________
is appropriate.
► Usability testing P/264
► Field study
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework

Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new

groupware product would help them to be more engaged would probably be better
informed by a ______________.
► Usability testing
► Field study P/264
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework

Beneath the surface is the _____________ of the site: the placement of buttons, tabs,
photos, and blocks of text.
► Surface
► Structure
► Skeleton P/306, Lecture_35
► Scope

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color
blindness.
► 10 P/358__ Lecture- 39
► 20
► 30
► 40

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected
by the user to invoke specific operations.
► Buttons P/133
► Pointers
► Menus
► Windows

The __________ function came into being as the result of the implementation model for
undo
► Redo P/314
► Undo
► Repeat
► Delete

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If the user wants to _________ place the document somewhere in the file system
hierarchy, he can request this function from the menu.
► Explicitly P/327
► Implicitly
► Habitually
► Properly

Design of user interfaces does not entirely ___________ aesthetic concerns, but
rather it places such’ concerns within the constraints of a _____________
framework
► Include, Functional
► Exclude, Functional P/343, Lecture-38
► Include, Non-Functional
► Exclude, Non-Functional

When developing ____________, plan to keep them short, straightforward and

avoid asking too many.
► Videos
► Documentation
► Interview questions P/371
► Contextual enquiry

Conventional wisdom says that ________ tell the user when he has made some
mistake.
► Program crash
► System stuck
► Error messages P/382
► Metadata

People frequently counter the idea of ________feedback with arguments that users
don’t like it
► Audible P/393
► Video
► Walkthroughs
► Questions

___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.

► Non-attentive
► Visual
► Sensing
► Attentive P/418

User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.
► Served
► Negative

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 ► Customer
► Supplemental P/188

Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we
wanted to happen?
► Action
► Evaluation P/99
► Execution
► None of these

The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

► Physical P/106
► Logical
► Cultural
► None of these

_____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich,
multivariate detail
► Quantitative
► Qualitative P/166
► SME
► None of these

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult
and tiring to write and observe at the same time.
► Audio recording.
► Taking notes. P/365
► Observation
► Video

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________

► Functional and data elements P/206
► View
► Input method
► None of the given

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use

with the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.
► Co-discovery
► Active intervention P/276
► Splendid research
► None of the given

Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract

____________ users more than a monthly-updated site.
► Repeat P/229

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 ► Infrequent
► Nonuser
► None of the given

Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet users’
needs are known as _____________ evaluation.
► Formative P/258
► Summative
► Relative
► None of the given

____________ frequent your primary personas access the site, _____________

transient a stance the site needs to take (respectively).
► More, Less
► Less, more P/232
► Less, less
► None of the given

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not a secondary color?

Select correct option:
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
Select correct option:
a typical keyboard
a typical monitor
a typical speaker
a typical processor

Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

Select correct option:
Listening P/87_- Lecture -10

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Speaking
Hearing
None of the given

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

Select correct option:
A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light P/60, Lecture-7
Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system
state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can
be considered as general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which
of the following are also high level usability categories that can guide standards and
guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency (iii) Fault tolerance (iv)
Satisfaction
Select correct option:
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)

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Which of the following is not true?
Select correct option:
Utility refers to the functionality of a system
Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system P/30__ Lecture-4
Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

The command line interface is used because

Select correct option:
It is easy to understand
It is demanded by DOS
It is offered by Unix systems
It is powerful and flexible (Google)

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

Select correct option:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior

and the mental processes that underlie it?
Select correct option:
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Computer Science

HCI deals with

Select correct option:
Design of interactive system only
Evaluation of interactive system only
Implementation of interactive system only
All of the given choices

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Human beings interact with outside world, using their
Select correct option:
input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given P/54

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their
Select correct option:
Sense of sight
Sense of hearing
Both sense of touch and sense of hearing
Sense of touch

_____________is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from the range of possibilities available

Reasoning
Decision Making
Attention P/76, Lecture-9

__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the
world.
Visibility
Affordance
Mapping P/107, Lecture- 12

. _________________ plays a role to bridge up the gap between the interfaces of

machines and human understanding.
Human computer Interaction P/14

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Software Engineering
Human Computer Interfaces

___________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at
doing what it is suppose to do.
Effectiveness P/31
Efficiency
Utility

. _________________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday
activities.
Cognition P/47
Learnability
Memeorability

_______________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw

conclusions or infer something new about the domain of interest.
Decision Making
Reasoning P/89
Problem Solving

________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a

product in different, more useful ways than _______research do.
Qualitative, Quantitative P/167
Quantitative, Qualitative
None of them

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local
gurus. This statement concerns with ____________.

► Paper work and computer work

► Spatial and temporal organizations
► Organizational memory
► None of these

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Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________ constraint.
► Physical
► Logical
► Cultural (Google)
► None of these

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people

to know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance P/105
► Constraint
► None of these

____________ minimizes errors.

► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?
► Pitch
► Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
► Timber
► None of these

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines
and human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction P/14
► None of these

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.

► Primary P/159
► Secondary
► Supplement
► Negative

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A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of
the various modes.

► Button
► Pointer
► Palette P/133
► Title bar

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona

► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through

______________.

► Modeling, analysis P/159

► Analysis, modeling
► Testing, modeling
► Testing, Analysis
.

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be

completed before the next step can be started

► Incremental
► Linear P/149
► Iterative
► Analytical

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design

► Evaluate the design
► Generate and evaluate the design (Google)
► None of the given

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 What is a semantic network?

► A model of long-term memory P/82

► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?
► Sight and hearing
► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch

_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out

their tasks.

Efficiency P/31
Effectiveness
Utility

_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical

objects in the real world to match the knowledge requirements of users.

User Interaction Models

Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors P/51

________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language

is often Ungrammatical.

Written, spoken P/87

Spoken, written
None of the given choices

Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.

Strategic
Tactical P/143
None of the given choices

Strategic aspect guides us to think about user interface idioms – in other words, the way
in which the user and the idiom interact. Tactical aspects give us hints and tips about
using and creating user interface idioms, like dialog boxes and pushbuttons.

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The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

Deborah Mayhew P/153

Websterfg
Barry Boehm
Hartson

XYZ Ltd is well reputed software house; they make a significant investment in
building ------------------- that encourages greater customer loyalty.

Visual Symbols
Grouping
Brand Equity P/353
Harmony

Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and
software applications on a single place. Which of the following will help in this
regard?
MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper

Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two
different modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________ .
Analytic mode, synthetic mode P/153
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode

Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the
____________ phase and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)

Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling

Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides clear,
simple navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in this case?
Auxiliary
Transient
Information

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Sovereign

___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.
Pull Down Menus
Main Menus
Icons
Buttons

When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person
is saying. It is called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention P/78
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of

_________ .
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention P/78

GOMS stands for

Goals operation methods and selection rules P/50

Goals objects models and selection rules
Goals operations methods and state rules
Goals operations models and state rules

Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given P/59

Hue
Hue is determined by the spectral wavelength of the light. Blues have short wavelength,
greens medium and reds long. Approximately 150 different hues can be discriminated by
the average person.
Intensity
Intensity is the brightness of the color.

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Saturation
Saturation is the amount of whiteness in the colors.

________ represent the user’s expectations of the tangible outcomes of

using a specific product.
Non-user goals
End goals P/192
Experience goals
Life goals

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Reference MCQ’s For MIDTERM EXAMS
CS408 - HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

Question No: 1 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________are unintentional while_____________ occur through conscious deliberation.

 Slips, mistakes (page 100)

 Errors, slips
 Mistakes, errors
 Mistakes, slips

Question No: 2 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human problem solving?

 It operates within the constraints of the human processing system (page 91)
 It explains what is involved in insight
 It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
 None of these

Question No: 3 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

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

 Perception and recognition

 Attention (page 76)
 Learning
 None of these
Question No: 4 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice model of
learning.

 True
 False (page 176)

Question No: 5 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use refers to
_______ persona

 Primary
 Secondary
 Served (page 159)
 Negative

Question No: 6 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that
currently plague the development of digital products.

 Scenario
 Persona (page 187)
 Prototype

Question No: 7 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

 Gulf of Execution (page 103)

 Gulf of Evaluation
 None of these

Question No: 8 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range of

 Possibilities available (page 76)

 Time Available
 None of these

Question No: 9 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The goals of HCI are:

 Usability and User Experience (page 30)

 Learn ability and Comfort
 Tasks and Goals
Question No: 10 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
WYSIWYG stands for ____________.

 Where you see is where you get

 What you see is what you get (page 36)
 When you see it when you get

Question No: 11 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

 Pitch
 Loudness (page 70)
 Timber

Question No: 12 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

 True
 False (page 189)

Question No: 13 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to
invoke specific operations.

 Buttons (page 133)

 Pointers
 Menus
 Windows

Question No: 14 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.

 Served
 Negative
 Customer
 Supplemental (page 196)

Question No: 15 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

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

 Action
 Evaluation (page 99)
 Execution
 None of these
 Question No: 16 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

 Physical (page 106)

 Logical
 Cultural
 None of these

Question No: 17 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich, multivariate detail.

 Quantitative
 Qualitative (page 166)
 SME
 None of these

Question No: 18 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the usability goals?

 It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do. (page 31)
 It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
 It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
 It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Question No: 19 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is not a secondary color?

 Green
 Orange
 Purple
 Blue (page 63)

Question No: 20 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?

 a typical keyboard
 a typical monitor
 a typical speaker
 a typical processor

Question No: 21 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

 Listening (page 87)

 Speaking
 Hearing
 None of the given
Question No: 22 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________
(respectively).

 Process, Tools (page 23)

 Tools, Process
 Tools, Methodology
 None of these

Question No: 23 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

 A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light (page 56)

 Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
 Eye has approximately 6 million cones

Question No: 24 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?

 Computers are enabling new discoveries

 Leading to efficiencies
 Making our life convenient
 Depending so much on computers may give fatal results (page 9)

Question No: 25 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system

The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Question No: 26 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can be considered as
general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which of the following are also high level
usability categories that can guide standards and guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii)
Efficiency (iii) Fault tolerance (iv) Satisfaction

Select correct option:

(i) & (ii) (page 31)

(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)
 Question No: 27 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Which of the following is not true?

 Utility refers to the functionality of a system

 Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system (page 31)
 Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
 Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

Question No: 28 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The command line interface is used because:

 It is easy to understand
 It is demanded by DOS
 It is offered by UNIX systems
 It is powerful and flexible (page 127)

Question No: 29 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the usability goals?

 It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do. (page 31)
 It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
 It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
 It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Question No: 30 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

 Red
 Yellow
 Blue
 Green (page 63)

Question No: 31 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the mental
processes that underlie it?

 Psychology (page 43)

 Sociology
 Statistics
 Computer Science

Question No: 32 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

HCI deals with:

 Design of interactive system only

 Evaluation of interactive system only
 Implementation of interactive system only
 All of the given choices (page 15)
Question No: 33 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Human beings interact with outside world, using their

 input channels
 output channels
 sense of sight
 All of the given (page 54)

Question No: 33 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________ (respectively).

 Process, Tools (page 23)

 Tools, Process
 Tools, Methodology
 None of these

Question No: 34 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their

 Sense of sight
 Sense of hearing
 Both sense of touch and sense of hearing
 Sense of touch

Question No: 35 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the
range of possibilities available

 Reasoning
 Decision Making
 Attention (page 76)

Question No: 36 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the world.

 Visibility
 Affordance
 Mapping (page 107)

Question No: 37 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

. _________________ plays a role to bridge up the gap between the interfaces of machines and
human understanding.

 Human computer Interaction (page 14)

 Software Engineering
 Human Computer Interfaces
Question No: 38 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
___________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at doing what it is
suppose to do.

 Effectiveness (page 31)

 Efficiency
 Utility

Question No: 39 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

. _________________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday activities?

 Cognition (page 47)

 Learnability
 Memeorability

Question No: 40 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_______________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw conclusions or
infer something new about the domain of interest.

 Decision Making
 Reasoning (page 89)
 Problem Solving

Question No: 41 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a product in different,
more useful ways than _______research do.

 Qualitative, Quantitative (page 167)

 Quantitative, Qualitative
 None of them

Question No: 42 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus. This
statement concerns with ____________.

 Paper work and computer work

 Spatial and temporal organizations
 Organizational memory (page 176)
 None of these

Question No: 43 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________ constraint.

 Physical
 Logical
 Cultural (page 106)
 None of these
Question No: 44 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to
use it.

 Visibility
 Affordance (page 105)
 Constraint
 None of these

Question No: 45 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ minimizes errors.

 Affordance
 Visibility (page 104)
 Constraints
 None of these

Question No: 46 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency remains constant?

 Pitch
 Loudness (page 70)
 Timber
 None of these

Question No: 47 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human
understanding.

 Human
 Computer
 Human Computer Interaction (page 14)
 None of these

Question No: 48 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and behavior is
_____________ type of Persona.

 Primary (page 159)

 Secondary
 Supplement
 Negative

Question No: 49 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various modes.

 Button
 Pointer
 Palette (page 133)
 Title bar
Question No: 50 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use refers to
_______ persona

 Primary
 Secondary
 Served (page 159)
 Negative

Question No: 51 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through ______________.

 Modeling, analysis (page 159)

 Analysis, modeling
 Testing, modeling
 Testing, Analysis

Question No: 52 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed before the
next step can be started:

 Incremental
 Linear (page 149)
 Iterative
 Analytical

Question No: 53 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Models are used in design to,

 Generate the design

 Evaluate the design
 Generate and evaluate the design (page 185)
 None of the given

Question No: 54 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What is a semantic network?

 A model of long-term memory (page 82)

 A record of our memory of events
 The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
 A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 55 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a
computer?

 Sight and hearing

 Hearing, touch and smell
 Hearing and touch
 Sight, hearing and touch (page 54)
Question No: 56 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.

 Efficiency (page 31)

 Effectiveness
 Utility

Question No: 57 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects in the real
world to match the knowledge requirements of users.

 User Interaction Models

 Conceptual Models
 Interface Metaphors (page 51)

Question No: 58 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often Ungrammatical.

 Written, spoken (page 87)

 Spoken, written
 None of the given choices

Question No: 59 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.

 Strategic
 Tactical (page 143)
 None of the given choices

Question No: 60 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

 Deborah Mayhew (page 153)

 Webster
 Barry Boehm
 Hartson

Question No: 61 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and software
applications on a single place. Which of the following will help in this regard?

 MS World
 Worldwide Web (page 305)
 Television Newspaper

Question No: 62 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two different modes
of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________.

 Analytic mode, synthetic mode (page 153)

 Evaluation mode, testing mode
 Analyze mode, feedback mode
 Implementation mode, task mode
Question No: 63 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the ____________
phase and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively).

 Modeling, Implementation
 Modeling, Research
 Research, Implementation
 Research, Modeling (page 199)

Question No: 64 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides clear, simple
navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in this case?

 Auxiliary
 Transient (page 231)
 Information
 Sovereign

Question No: 65 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.

 Pull Down Menus (page 132)

 Main Menus
 Icons
 Buttons

Question No: 66 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person is saying. It is called?

 Focused Attention
 Voluntary Attention (page 78)
 Involuntary attention
 Divided Attention

Question No: 67 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of _________ .

 Focused Attention
 Voluntary Attention
 Involuntary attention
 Divided Attention (page 78)

Question No: 68 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

GOMS stands for:

 Goals, operation, methods and selection rules (page 50)

 Goals, objects, models and selection rules
 Goals, operations, methods and state rules
 Goals, operations, models and state rules
Question No: 69 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

 Hue
 Intensity
 Saturation
 All of the given (page 59)

Question No: 70 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________ represent the user’s expectations of the tangible outcomes of using a specific product.

 Non-user goals
 End goals (page 192)
 Experience goals
 Life goals

Question No: 71 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

 True
 False (page 189)

Question No: 72 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In an email application configuring a new email server is a key path activity.

 True (page 207)

 False

Question No: 73 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________ are perhaps the least-documented patterns, but they are nonetheless in widespread
use.

 Postural
 Structural (page 217)
 Behavioral
 Mnemonic

Question No: 74 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The way people carry out an activity in the real world is same as how it may be observed in the
laboratory

 True
 False (page 256)

Question No: 75 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Engineering a user interface involves a quantitative engineering style of working in which
measurements are used to judge the quality of interface. Hence ____________ is appropriate.

 Usability testing (page 264)

 Field study
 Predictive evaluation
 DECIDE framework
Question No: 76 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new groupware product would
help them to be more engaged would probably be better informed by a ______________.

 Usability testing
 Field study (page 264)
 Predictive evaluation
 DECIDE framework

Question No: 77 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Beneath the surface is the _____________ of the site: the placement of buttons, tabs, photos, and
blocks of text.

 Surface
 Structure
 Skeleton (page 306)
 Scope

Question No: 78 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color blindness.

 10 (page 358)
 20
 30
 40

Question No: 79 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to
invoke specific operations.

 Buttons (page 133)

 Pointers
 Menus
 Windows

Question No: 80 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The __________ function came into being as the result of the implementation model for undo

 Redo (page 314)

 Undo
 Repeat
 Delete

Question No: 81 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

If the user wants to _________ place the document somewhere in the file system hierarchy, he can
request this function from the menu.

 Explicitly (page 327)

 Implicitly
 Habitually
 Properly
Question No: 82 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Design of user interfaces does not entirely ___________ aesthetic concerns, but rather it places
such' concerns within the constraints of a _____________ framework.

 Include, Functional
 Exclude, Functional (page 343)
 Include, Non-Functional
 Exclude, Non-Functional

Question No: 83 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

When developing ____________, plan to keep them short, straightforward and avoid asking too
many.

 Videos
 Documentation
 Interview CS408 Questions (page 371)
 Contextual enquiry

Question No: 84 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Conventional wisdom says that ________ tell the user when he has made some mistake.

 Program crash
 System stuck
 Error messages (page 382)
 Metadata

Question No: 85 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

People frequently counter the idea of ________feedback with arguments that users don't like it

 Audible (page 393)

 Video
 Walkthroughs
 CS408 Questions

Question No: 86 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.

 Non-attentive
 Visual
 Sensing
 Attentive (page 418)

Question No: 87 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.

 Served
 Negative
 Customer
 Supplemental (page 196)
Question No: 88 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to
happen?

 Action
 Evaluation (page 99)
 Execution
 None of these

Question No: 89 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

 Physical (page 106)

 Logical
 Cultural
 None of these

Question No: 90 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________ research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich, multivariate detail.

 Quantitative
 Qualitative (page 166)
 SME
 None of these

Question No: 91 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult and tiring to write
and observe at the same time.

 Audio recording
 Taking notes (page 365)
 Observation
 Video

Question No: 92 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________

 Functional and data elements (page 206)

 View
 Input method
 None of the given

Question No: 93 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use with the
prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.

 Co-discovery
 Active intervention (page 276)
 Splendid research
 None of the given
Question No: 94 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract ____________ users more
than a monthly-updated site.

 Repeat (page 229)

 Infrequent
 Nonuser
 None of the given

Question No: 95 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet users’ needs are known as
_____________ evaluation.

 Formative (page 258)

 Summative
 Relative
 None of the given

Question No: 96 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ frequent your primary personas access the site, _____________ transient a stance
the site needs to take (respectively).

 More, Less
 Less, more (page 230)
 Less, less
 None of the given

Question No: 97 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus. This
statement concerns with ____________.

 Paper work and computer work

 Spatial and temporal organizations
 Organizational memory (page 176)
 None of these

Question No: 98 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the
______________ interface style, often simply called windowing systems.

 Three-dimensional
 WIMP (page 129)
 Point and click
 None of these

Question No: 99 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________constraint.

 Physical
 Logical
 Cultural (page 106)
 None of these
Question No: 100 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to
use it.

 Visibility
 Affordance (page 105)
 Constraint
 None of these

Question No: 101 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ minimizes errors.

 Affordance
 Visibility (page 104)
 Constraints
 None of these

Question No: 102 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency remains
constant?

 Pitch
 Loudness (page 70)
 Timber
 None of these

Question No: 103 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human
understanding.

 Human
 Computer
 Human Computer Interaction (page 14)
 None of these

Question No: 104 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and behavior is
_____________ type of Persona.

 Primary (page 159)

 Secondary
 Supplement
 Negative

Question No: 105 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various
modes.

 Button
 Pointer
 Palette (page 133)
 Title bar
Question No: 106 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use refers to
_______ persona

 Primary
 Secondary
 Served (page 159)
 Negative

Question No: 107 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through ______________.

 Modeling, analysis (page 159)

 Analysis, modeling
 Testing, modeling
 Testing, Analysis

Question No: 108 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

 Deborah Mayhew (page 153)

 Webster
 Barry Boehm
 Hartson

Question No: 109 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed before the
next step can be started

 Incremental
 Linear (page 149)
 Iterative
 Analytical

Question No: 110 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Models are used in design to

 Generate the design

 Evaluate the design
 Generate and evaluate the design (page 185)
 None of the given

Question No: 111 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What is a semantic network?

 A model of long-term memory (page 82)

 A record of our memory of events
 The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
 A mechanism for improving memory
Question No: 112 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a
computer?

 Sight and hearing

 Hearing, touch and smell
 Hearing and touch
 Sight, hearing and touch (page 54)

Question No: 113 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus. This
statement concerns with ____________.

 Paper work and computer work

 Spatial and temporal organizations
 Organizational memory (page 176)
 None of these

Question No: 115 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the
______________ interface style, often simply called windowing systems.

 Three-dimensional
 WIMP (page 129)
 Point and click
 None of these

Question No: 116 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________constraint.

 Physical
 Logical
 Cultural (page 106)
 None of these

Question No: 117 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to
use it.

 Visibility
 Affordance (page 105)
 Constraint
 None of these

Question No: 118 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ minimizes errors.

 Affordance
 Visibility (page 104)
 Constraints
 None of these
Question No: 119 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency remains
constant?

 Pitch
 Loudness (page 70)
 Timber
 None of these

Question No: 120 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human
understanding.

 Human
 Computer
 Human Computer Interaction (page 14)
 None of these

Question No: 121 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and behavior is
_____________ type of Persona.

 Primary (page 159)

 Secondary
 Supplement
 Negative

Question No: 122 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various
modes.

 Button
 Pointer
 Palette (page 133)
 Title bar

Question No: 123 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use refers to
_______ persona

 Primary
 Secondary
 Served (page 159)
 Negative

Question No: 124 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through ______________.

 Modeling, analysis (page 159)

 Analysis, modeling
 Testing, modeling
 Testing, Analysis
Question No: 125 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

 Deborah Mayhew (page 153)

 Webster
 Barry Boehm
 Hartson

Question No: 126 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed before the
next step can be started

 Incremental
 Linear (page 149)
 Iterative
 Analytical

Question No: 127 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Models are used in design to

 Generate the design

 Evaluate the design
 Generate and evaluate the design (page 185)
 None of the given

Question No: 128 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What is a semantic network?

 A model of long-term memory (page 82)

 A record of our memory of events
 The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
 A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 129 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a
computer?

 Sight and hearing

 Hearing, touch and smell
 Hearing and touch
 Sight, hearing and touch (page 54)

Question No: 130 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to
use it.

 Visibility
 Affordance (page 105)
 Constraint
 None of these
Question No: 131 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
What is a semantic network?

 A model of long-term memory (page 82)

 A record of our memory of events
 The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
 A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 132 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.

 Physical constraints (page 106)

 Logical constraints
 Cultural constraints
 None of these

Question No: 133 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

A mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its plastic shell, is an
example of ___________ Design Principle.

 Visibility
 Affordance (page 105)
 Mapping
 None of these

Question No: 134 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________ aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms, like dialog
boxes and pushbuttons.

A. Efficient. B. Strategic. C. Tactical. D. Reliable.

Select correct option:

 Only A
 Only C (page 143)
 A and C
 B and D

Question No: 135 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

"Mistakes" and "Slips" are two forms of:

 Errors (page 100)

 Goals
 Evaluation
 Objectives
Question No: 136 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Ergonomics is also called________.

 Assembly
 Human Factors (page 43)
 Both
 None of the Given

Question No: 138 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

User and system has its own unique language, the language used by the system is called______

 Core (page 123)

 Task
 Both
 None of the above

Question No: 139 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Choice of operations and services are offered on the screen through________

 Pointers
 Toolbars
 Menus (page 131)
 None of the given

Question No: 140 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

You are given 4 cards displaying 4, E, 7 and K respectively, and you are told that if a card has a
vowel on one side it has an even number on the other. Which cards would you have to turn over to
check whether this is the case?

 E and 4
 E and 7
 E, 4 and 7
 4, E, 7 and K

Question No: 141 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is true regarding "Visibility"?

The more visible functions are, the more likely users will be able to know what to do next. (page 104)
The more visible functions are, the less likely users will be able to know what to do next.
Functions visibility and user knowing of what to do next, are not related to each other
None of the given

Question No: 142 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What will be the gulf of execution if the user is able to formulate and perform the actions easily?

 Smaller (page 122)

 Greater
 Balanced
 None of the Given
Question No: 143 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems is________ .

 Indirect manipulation
 Direct manipulation (page 36,137)
 Both
 None of the given

Question No: 144 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which interface system is based on the question/answer dialogue?

 Command Line Interfaces

 Query interfaces (page 128)
 Menus
 Natural Language Interfaces

Question No: 145 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Taking some real world concept to perform different tasks that represent some idea, inside the
computer is type of________ .

 Direct Manipulation (page 125,137)

 Desktop metaphors
 Central processing unit
 None of the given

Question No: 146 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Example of form fill interface is________.

 A dialog box
 Pop up menus
 Data entry form on some university web
 All of the given

Question No: 147 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Building things from user's perspective is called _________.

 Functionality
 Usability (page 31)
 Portability
 None of the given

Question No: 148 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

A small picture that is used to represent a closed window is said to be a/an:

 Menu
 Toolbar
 status bar
 icon (page 131)
Question No: 149 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Form-filling interfaces are used for:

 Data entry (page 128)

 Data integration
 Data manipulation
 Data definition

Question No: 150 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________ is an early release of a product to a few users.

Surveys
Beta test (page 271)
Focus

Question No: 151 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

________ has a goal of assessing whether the product works according to its specifications.

Trunk Test
Quality assurance (page 270)

Question No: 152 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In usability test, which is a technique from given below options, in which you have two participants
work together to perform the tasks.

Active Intervention
Co-Discovery (page 276)
Trunk test

Question No: 153 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What site is this”, Statement represents___________.

Folder
Site ID (page 296)
Scroll bar

Question No: 154 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

In DECIDE frame work ______________comes just after choosing the evaluation paradigm and
techniques.

 Deciding about ethical issues (page 265)

 Exploring the questions
 Identifying the practical issues
 None of the given
Question No: 155 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Formal methods are used to represent:

 Architectural aspects of software systems only

 Procedural aspects of software systems only
 Both architectural and procedural aspects of software systems (page 21)
 None of the given

Question No: 156 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be:

 Complementary colors (page 64)

 Analogous colors
 Primary colors
 Secondary colors

Question No: 157 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is true about Short-Term memory?

 Short-term memory has a limited capacity. (page 80)

 Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity.
 Short-term memory has no capacity.
 Short-term memory has large but limited capacity.

Question No: 158 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is not one of the goals of HCI?

 To produce usable systems

 To produce safe systems
 To produce non-functional systems (page 30)
 To improve effectiveness of the systems

Question No: 159 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

According to Juran, the fitness for purpose or use, is said to be

 Usability
 Efficiency
 Reliability
 Quality (page 39)

Question No: 160 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability goals?

 It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
 It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks. (page 31)
 It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
 It involves protecting the users from undesired situations
Question No: 161 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers "404 894 6743"
because ___________.

 Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.

 The grouping of the numbers is significant
 Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
 None of these

Question No: 162 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is considered as the most complex species?

 Humans (page 18)

 Computers
 Animals
 Birds

Question No: 163 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is the statement given by "Novatech" as a result of a survey on the
embarrassing experiences of computers?

 One in every four computers has been physically attacked by its owner
 Every computer can be saved from any type of physical attacks
 Every computer is attacked physically one in its life time
 One in every four computers has been physically attacked by some outside source (page 24)

Question No: 164 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Which of the following is/are goal(s) of usability?

 Effectiveness
 Efficiency
 Safety
 All of the given (page 31)

Question No: 165 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

XYZ Ltd is well reputed software house; they make a significant investment in building -------------
------ that encourages greater customer loyalty.

 Visual Symbols
 Grouping
 Brand Equity (page 353)
 Harmony

Question No: 166 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

What are the three types of reasoning?

 Deductive, Productive and Inductive (page 89)

 Adductive, Inductive and Deductive
 Inductive, Adductive and Reproductive
 Productive, Reproductive and Deductive
Question No: 167 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one
_________ is a usability test in which a member of the test team sits in the room with the
participant and actively probes the participant's understanding of whatever is being tested.

 Co discovery
 Active intervention (page 276)
 Trunk test

Question No: 168 (Marks: 1) - Please choose one

Totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied needs are
called ___________.

 Quality (page 40)

 Effectiveness
 Standard
 Quantity
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What will be the gulf of execution if the user is able to formulate and perform the actions easily;
Smaller
Greater
Balanced
None of the Given

Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems is________
Indirect manipulation
Direct manipulation
Both
None of the given

Which interface system is based on the question/answer dialogue?

Command Line Interfaces
Query interfaces
Menus
Natural Language Interfaces

Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the ______________
interface style, often simply called windowing systems.
Three-dimensional
WIMP
Point and click
None of these

Taking some real world concept to perform different tasks that represent some idea, inside the
computer is type of________
Direct Manipulation
Desktop metaphors
Central processing unit
None of the given

Example of form fill interface is________

A dialog box
Pop up menus
Data entry form on some university web
All of the given

Building things from user's perspective is called _________

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Functionality
Usability
Portability
None of the given

A small picture that is used to represent a closed window is said to be a/an

Menu
Toolbar
status bar
icon

Form-filling interfaces are used for

data entry
data integration
data manipulation
data definition

User and system has its own unique language, the language used by the user is called_______
Task
Core
Both
None of the give options

This is not a characteristic of usability test

The primary goal is to improve usability

The participants do not represent real users
Observe and record what participants do and say

_________is an early release of a product to a few users.

Surveys
Beta test
Focus

_________ has a goal of assessing whether the product works according to its specifications.
Trunk Test
Quality assurance

__________ is a usability test in which a member of the test team sits in the room with the participant
and actively probes the participant's understanding of whatever is being tested.
Co discovery
Active intervention
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In usability test, which is a technique from given below opttions, in which you have two participants
work together to perform the tasks.
Active Intervention
Co-Discovery
Trunk test

_____________ is needed to check that users can use the product and like it.
Coding
Evaluation
Guideline

What site is this”, Statement represents___________.

Folder
Site ID
Scroll bar

Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new groupware product would help
them to be more engaged would probably be better informed by a ______________.
Usability testing
Field study
Predictive evaluation
DECIDE framework

The ____________ phase sets the stage for the core of the design effort
Requirement definition
Modeling
Implementation
None of the given

Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet uses’ needs are known as
______________ evaluation.
Formative
Summative
Relative
None of the given

_________ frequent your primary personas access the site,____________ transient a stance the site
needs to take (respectively).
More, Less
Less, More
Less, Less
None the given

In DECIDE frame work ______________comes just after choosing the evaluation paradigm and
techniques.
Deciding about ethical issues

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Exploring the questions
Identifying the practical issues
None of the given

____________capture the non-verbal dialogue between artifact and user over time.
Persona
Scenario
Dialogue
Design Model

___________ patterns can be applied at the conceptual level.

Postural
Structural
Behavioral
Mnemonic

Which of the following I least likely to be revealed by a paper prototype?

Your user don’t know the term algorithm
Toolbar button are too small to press
The help menu isn’t in the right place.
None of the given

Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract _______ users more than a
monthly- updated site.
Repeat
Infrequent
Nonuser
None of the given

There can only be one _________ persona per interface for a product
Primary
Secondary
Supplemental
Customer

Overviews serve a similar purpose to __________ in an interface.

Navigation
Excise
Signposts
None of the given

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________ (respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology

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None of these

Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

Select correct option:
A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light
Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can be considered as
general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which of the following are also high level
usability categories that can guide standards and guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency
(iii) Fault tolerance (iv) Satisfaction
Select correct option:
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)

Formal methods are used to represent

Architectural aspects of software systems only
Procedural aspects of software systems only
Both architectural and procedural aspects of software systems
None of the given

The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be
complementary colors
analogous colors
primary colors
secondary colors

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Which of the following is true about Short-Term memory?
Short-term memory has a limited capacity.
Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity.
Short-term memory has no capacity.
Short-term memory has large but limited capacity.

Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
a typical keyboard
a typical monitor
a typical speaker
a typical processor

Which of the following is not one of the goals of HCI?

To produce usable systems
To produce safe systems
To produce non-functional systems
To improve effectiveness of the systems

Human beings interact with outside world, using their

input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given

Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

Select correct option:
Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given

Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

Select correct option:
Red
Green
Yellow
Green

Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the mental
processes that underlie it?
Select correct option:
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Computer Science

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Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a
computer?
Select correct option:
Sight and hearing
Hearing, touch and smell
Hearing and touch
Sight, hearing and touch

According to Juran, the fitness for purpose or use, is said to be

usability
efficency
reliability
quality

Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations
Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers "404 894 6743"
because ___________ .
Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.
The grouping of the numbers is significant
Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
None of these

The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be
Select correct option:
complementary colors
analogous colors
primary colors
secondary colors

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________ (respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient

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Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user's difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system's difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system's difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state transition
The user's difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Which of the following is considered as the most complex species?

Select correct option:
Humans
Computers
Animals
Birds

Which of the following is the statement given by "Novatech" as a result of a survey on the embarrassing
experiences of computers?
Select correct option:
One in every four computers has been physically attacked by its owner
Every computer can be saved from any type of physical attacks
Every computer is attacked physically one in its life time
One in every four computers has been physically attacked by some outside source

According to Juran, the fitness for purpose or use, is said to be

Select correct option:
usability
efficency
reliability
quality

Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries

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Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

Which of the following is/are goal(s) of usability?

Select correct option:
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Safety
All of the given
Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?
Select correct option:
Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given
Which of the following is true about Short-Term memory?
Select correct option:
Short-term memory has a limited capacity.
Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity.
Short-term memory has no capacity.
Short-term memory has large but limited capacity.

Human beings interact with outside world, using their

Select correct option:
input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given

GOMS stands for

Select correct option:
goals,operations, methods and selection rules
goals,objects, models and selection rules
goals,operations, methods and state role
goals,orientation, models and state role

When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person is saying. It is
called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of _________ .
Focused Attention

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Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides clear, simple
navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in this case?
Auxiliary
Transient
Information
Sovereign

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

Deborah Mayhew
Websterfg
Barry Boehm
Hartson

XYZ Ltd is well reputed software house; they make a significant investment in building -------------------
that encourages greater customer loyalty.
Visual Symbols
Grouping
Brand Equity
Harmony

Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and software applications
on a single place. Which of the following will help in this regard?
MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper

Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two different modes of
activity: one is _________ and other is ___________ .
Analytic mode, synthetic mode
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode

Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the ____________ phase
and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)
Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling

_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
Efficiency

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Effectiveness
Utility
_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects in the real world to
match the knowledge requirements of users.
User Interaction Models
Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors

________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often Ungrammatical.

Written, spoken
Spoken, written
None of the given choices

Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.
Strategic
Tactical
None of the given choices

Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

Select correct option:
listening
speaking
hearing
None of the given

What are the three types of reasoning?

Select correct option:
Deductive, Productive and Inductive
Adductive, Inductive and Deductive
Inductive, Adductive and Reproductive
Productive, Reproductive and Deductive

Which of the following is not true?

Select correct option:
Utility refers to the functionality of a system
Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system
Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

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Which of the following is not a secondary color?
Select correct option:
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue

1 What will be the gulf of execution if the user is able to formulate and perform the actions
easily;
Smaller
Greater
Balanced
None of the Given

2 Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems is________
Indirect manipulation
Direct manipulation
Both
None of the given

3 Which interface system is based on the question/answer dialogue?

Command Line Interfaces
Query interfaces
Menus
Natural Language Interfaces

4 Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the
______________ interface style, often simply called windowing systems.
Three-dimensional
WIMP
Point and click
None of these

5 Taking some real world concept to perform different tasks that represent some idea, inside the
computer is type of________
Direct Manipulation
Desktop metaphors
Central processing unit
None of the given

6 Example of form fill interface is________

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Pop up menus
Data entry form on some university web
All of the given

7 Building things from user's perspective is called _________

Functionality
Usability
Portability
None of the given

8 A small picture that is used to represent a closed window is said to be a/an

Menu
Toolbar
status bar
icon

9 Form-filling interfaces are used for

data entry
data integration
data manipulation
data definition

10 User and system has its own unique language, the language used by the user is called_______
Task
Core
Both
None of the give options

11 This is not a characteristic of usability test

The primary goal is to improve usability

The participants do not represent real users
Observe and record what participants do and say

12 _________is an early release of a product to a few users.

Surveys
Beta test
Focus

13 _________ has a goal of assessing whether the product works according to its specifications.
Trunk Test
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14 __________ is a usability test in which a member of the test team sits in the room with the
participant and actively probes the participant's understanding of whatever is being tested.
Co discovery
Active intervention
Trunk test

15 In usability test, which is a technique from given below opttions, in which you have two
participants work together to perform the tasks.
Active Intervention
Co-Discovery
Trunk test

16 _____________ is needed to check that users can use the product and like it.
Coding
Evaluation
Guideline

17 What site is this”, Statement represents___________.

Folder
Site ID
Scroll bar

18 Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new groupware product
would help them to be more engaged would probably be better informed by a ______________.
Usability testing
Field study
Predictive evaluation
DECIDE framework

19 The ____________ phase sets the stage for the core of the design effort
Requirement definition
Modeling
Implementation
None of the given

20 Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet uses’ needs are
known as ______________ evaluation.
Formative
Summative
Relative
None of the given

21 _________ frequent your primary personas access the site,____________ transient a stance
the site needs to take (respectively).
More, Less

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Less, More
Less, Less
None the given

22 In DECIDE frame work ______________comes just after choosing the evaluation paradigm
and techniques.
Deciding about ethical issues
Exploring the questions
Identifying the practical issues
None of the given

23 ____________capture the non-verbal dialogue between artifact and user over time.
Persona
Scenario
Dialogue
Design Model

24 ___________ patterns can be applied at the conceptual level.

Postural
Structural
Behavioral
Mnemonic

25 Which of the following I least likely to be revealed by a paper prototype?

Your user don’t know the term algorithm
Toolbar button are too small to press
The help menu isn’t in the right place.
None of the given

26 Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract _______ users more
than a monthly- updated site.
Repeat
Infrequent
Nonuser
None of the given

27 There can only be one _________ persona per interface for a product
Primary
Secondary
Supplemental
Customer

28 Overviews serve a similar purpose to __________ in an interface.

Navigation
Excise

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Signposts
None of the given

29 We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

30 Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

Select correct option:
A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light
Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones

31 Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

32 The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state
transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

33 Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can be
considered as general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which of the following
are also high level usability categories that can guide standards and guidelines generation? (i)
Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency (iii) Fault tolerance (iv) Satisfaction
Select correct option:
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)

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34 Formal methods are used to represent
Architectural aspects of software systems only
Procedural aspects of software systems only
Both architectural and procedural aspects of software systems
None of the given

35 The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be
complementary colors
analogous colors
primary colors
secondary colors
36 Which of the following is true about Short-Term memory?
Short-term memory has a limited capacity.
Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity.
Short-term memory has no capacity.
Short-term memory has large but limited capacity.

37 Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
a typical keyboard
a typical monitor
a typical speaker
a typical processor

38 Which of the following is not one of the goals of HCI?

To produce usable systems
To produce safe systems
To produce non-functional systems
To improve effectiveness of the systems

39 Human beings interact with outside world, using their

input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given

40 Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

Select correct option:
Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given

41 Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

Select correct option:
Red

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Green
Yellow
Green

42 Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the
mental processes that underlie it?
Select correct option:
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Computer Science

43 Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting
with a computer?
Select correct option:
Sight and hearing
Hearing, touch and smell
Hearing and touch
Sight, hearing and touch

44 According to Juran, the fitness for purpose or use, is said to be

usability
efficency
reliability
quality

45 Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability
goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations
46 Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers "404 894
6743" because ___________ .
Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.
The grouping of the numbers is significant
Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
None of these

47 The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be
Select correct option:
complementary colors
analogous colors
primary colors

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secondary colors

48 We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

49 Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

50 The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user's difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system's difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system's difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state
transition
The user's difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

51 Which of the following is considered as the most complex species?

Select correct option:
Humans
Computers
Animals
Birds

52 Which of the following is the statement given by "Novatech" as a result of a survey on the
embarrassing experiences of computers?
Select correct option:
One in every four computers has been physically attacked by its owner
Every computer can be saved from any type of physical attacks
Every computer is attacked physically one in its life time
One in every four computers has been physically attacked by some outside source

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53 According to Juran, the fitness for purpose or use, is said to be
Select correct option:
usability
efficency
reliability
quality

54 Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability
goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

55 Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

56 Which of the following is/are goal(s) of usability?

Select correct option:
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Safety
All of the given
57 Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?
Select correct option:
Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given
58 Which of the following is true about Short-Term memory?
Select correct option:
Short-term memory has a limited capacity.
Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity.
Short-term memory has no capacity.
Short-term memory has large but limited capacity.

59 Human beings interact with outside world, using their

Select correct option:
input channels
output channels

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sense of sight
All of the given

60 GOMS stands for

Select correct option:
goals,operations, methods and selection rules
goals,objects, models and selection rules
goals,operations, methods and state role
goals,orientation, models and state role

61 When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person is
saying. It is called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

62 Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of _________ .
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

63 Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides clear,
simple navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in this case?
Auxiliary
Transient
Information
Sovereign

64 The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

Deborah Mayhew
Websterfg
Barry Boehm
Hartson

65 XYZ Ltd is well reputed software house; they make a significant investment in building ------
------------- that encourages greater customer loyalty.
Visual Symbols
Grouping
Brand Equity
Harmony

66 Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and software
applications on a single place. Which of the following will help in this regard?

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MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper

67 Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two different
modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________ .
Analytic mode, synthetic mode
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode

68 Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the ____________
phase and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)
Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling

69_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Utility
70_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects in the real
world to match the knowledge requirements of users.
User Interaction Models
Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors

71 ________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often

Ungrammatical.
Written, spoken
Spoken, written
None of the given choices

72 Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.
Strategic
Tactical
None of the given choices

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Solved MCQS
From Midterm and also from daily based
quizzes(1 to 22 lectures)
BS110401050 [email protected] [email protected] AKMP01

Question # 1: Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?

o Pitch

o Loudness page # 70

o Timber

o None of these

Question # 2: The human eye has approximately _________rods and __________cones per eye

o 120 million , 6 million Page # 56

o 190 million , 3 billion

o 150 billion , 6 million

o None of the given

The human eye has approximately 120 million rods 6 million cones per eye
Question # 3: What are the three types of reasoning?

o Deductive, Productive and Inductive

o Abdicative, Inductive and Deductive Page # 89

o Inductive, Abdicative and Reproductive

o Productive, Reproductive and Deductive

Reasoning
Reasoning is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw conclusions or infer something new about
the domain of interest. There are a number of different types of reasoning:
• Deductive reasoning
• Inductive reasoning
• Abdicative reasoning

Question # 4: Which of the following is not one of the goals of HCI?

o To produce usable systems

o To produce safe systems

o To produce non-functional systems Page # 30

o To improve effectiveness of the systems

The goals of HCI are to produce usable and safe systems, as well as functional systems. These goals can be summarized
as „to develop or improve the safety, utility, effectiveness, efficiency and usability of systems
Question # 5: Which of the following is considered as the most complex species?

o Humans Page # 18

o Computers

o Animals

o Birds
Human beings are the most interesting and fascinating specie on planet. They are the most complex living being on the earth

Question # 6: Totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and
implied needs are called _______________.

o Quality Page # 40 also visit this link click here for more detail

o Effectiveness

o Standard

o Quantity
Quality is essential in all we do and particularly in our chosen field of work.
Quality has been defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO) as:
The totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs.

Question # 7: Which of the following is not true regarding "cones"?

o A type of receptor in eye

o more sensitive to light Page # 56

o different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light

o eye has approximately 6 million cones

Cones are the second type of receptor in the eye. They are less sensitive to light than the rods and can therefore tolerate
more light. There are three types of cone, each sensitive to a different wavelength of light. This allows color vision. The
eye has approximately 6 million cones, mainly concentrated on the fovea.
Question # 8: Which of the following is a true statement?

o Human-computer interface specialists are user-centered and software engineers are system
centered Page # 21

o Human-computer interface specialists are system-centered and software engineers are user-
centered

o Human-computer interface specialists and software engineers, both are system-centered.

o Human-computer interface specialists and software engineers, both are user-centered.

Software Engineering and HCI

There is a basic fundamental difference between the approaches taken by software engineers and human-computer
interaction specialists. Human-computer interface specialists are user-centered and software engineers are system-
centered.

Question # 9: Which of the following is not true?

o Utility refers to the functionality of a system

o Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system page # 30

o Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use

o Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

Utility refers to the functionality of a system or, in other words, the things it can do. Improving effectiveness and
efficiency are self-evident and ubiquitous objectives. The promotion of safety in relation to computer systems is of
paramount importance in the design of safety-critical systems. Usability, a key concept in HCI, is concerned with
making systems easy to learn and easy to use. Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users, as
you can understand from above described incidents.
Question # 10: Formal methods are used to represent

o Architecture aspects of software systems only

o Procedural aspects of software systems only

o Both Architecture and procedural aspects of software systems Page # 21

o None of the given

Formal methods have been developed to represent data, architectural, and procedural aspects of a software system

Question # 11: Which interface system is based on the question / answer dialogue?

o Command Line Interfaces

o Query interfaces Page # 127 and 128

o Menus

o Natural Language Interfaces

Question # 12: Choice of operations and services are offered on the screen through __________

o Pointers

o Toolbars

o Menus Page # 131

o None of the given

A menu presents a choice of operations or services that can be performed by the system at a given time.
Question # 13: What will be the gulf of execution if the user is able to formulate and perform the
actions easily;

o Smaller Page # 122

o Greater

o Balanced

o None of the Given

Question # 14: Form-filling interfaces are used for

o data entry Page # 128

o data integration

o data manipulation

o data definition

Form-filling interfaces are used primarily for data entry but can be useful in data retrieval applications.

Question # 15: Which of the following is flaw in waterfall model?

o requirements change overtime Page # 150

o maintenance can not be possible at the end

o testing should be done before requirements gathering

o All at the given

Flaws of waterfall model

One of the main flaws with this approach is that requirements change over time.
Question # 16: There are two aspects in which we can understand the nature of usability A.
Strategic and Tactical. B. Efficiency and Strategy C. Tactical and Reliability D. Efficiency and
Reliability

o Only A Page # 143

o Only C

o A and D

o B and C

we can understand The nature of usability in two aspects

• Strategic
• Tactical

Question # 17: Once the user input into system, the input language is translated into the language
as operations to be performed by the system.

o Task

o Core Page # 123

o Both

o None of the above

The only way the user can manipulate the machine is through the input, and so the task must be articulated within the
input language, the input language is translated into the core language as operations to be performed by the system.
Question # 18: User and system has its own unique language the language used by the system is
called _________.

o Core Page # 123

o Task

o Both

o None of the above

The system‟s language is referred as the core language and the user‟s language is referred as the task language

Question # 19: Which of the following is used to toggle between two states?

o check boxes

o Radio buttons Page # 133

o Toolbars

o menus

Radio Buttons
Buttons can also be used to toggle between two states

Question # 20: Which of the following is a text entry device?

o Keyboard Page # 110

o mouse

o monitor

o touch pad

Text entry devices: There are many text entry devices as given below:
Keyboard The most common method of entering information into the computer is through a
Keyboard QWERTY keyboard, Alphabetic keyboard, Dvorak Keyboard, Chord keyboards , Phone pad and T9
entry
Question # 21: "Mistakes" and "Slips" are two forms of

o Errors Page # 100

o goals

o evaluation

o objectives

There are various types of errors. Norman has categorized them into two main types, slips and mistakes:

Question # 22: The _____________ model should match the __________ model.

o User, conceptual

o Conceptual, mental Page # 94 Click here for more Detail

o Mental, central

o Conceptual, central

Question # 23: Which of the following is/are aspect(s) of human action?

o execution and evaluation Page # 99

o evaluation and efficiency

o efficiency and execution

o efficiency

Human action has two aspects, execution and evaluation.

Execution: involves doing something.
Evaluation: is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen
Question # 24: Building things from user's perspective is called

o Functionality

o Usability page # 31

o Portability

o None of the given

Usability goals
To recap, usability in generally regarded as ensuring that interactive products are easy to learn, effective to use, and
enjoyable from user perspective.

Question # 25: Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems

o Indirect manipulation

o Direct manipulation Page # 86

o Both

o None of the given

GUI and direct manipulation interface are good environments for supporting this kind of learning

Question # 26: If you are taking lecture and suddenly you hear music or voices from the other
room. It is called?

o Focused attention

o Divided attention

o Voluntary attention

o Involuntary attention Page # 70

An everyday example of an involuntary act is being distracted from working when we can hear music or voices in the
next room
Question # 27: Which of the following is a long-term individual difference?

o Age

o Sex Click here for more Detail

o Fatigue

o Color

Individual Differences Long term : Sex , Physical abilities , Intellectual abilities

Question # 28: ___________refers to how good a system at doing What it is supposed to do?

o Safety

o Usability

o Efficiency

o Effectiveness Page # 31

Effectiveness
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.

Question # 29: As a software designer, which aspects guide you to think about the Way in which
the user and the idiom interact?

o Tactical

o Manual

o Technical

o Strategic Page # 143

Strategic aspect guides us to think about user interface idioms – in other words, the way in which the user and the idiom
interact.
Question # 30: Adeel renders financial services in “ABC” bank .He specialized in his field. What
he is called as from the following?

o Society of manufacturing engineer (SME)

o Subject matter expert (SME) Page # 168

o Small and medium enterprise (SME)

o Subject master engineering (SME)

Subject matter expert (SME)

Question # 31: Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered
during_________ the phase and analyzed during the _________phase (respectively)

o Modeling, implementation

o Modeling, Research

o Research, implementation

o Research, modeling Page # 100

Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the Research phase and analyzed during the
modeling phase.

Question # 32: What is a semantic network?

o A model of long-term memory Page # 82

o A record of our memory of events

o The part of the brain which allows us to remember things

o A mechanism for improving memory

Long-term memory structure
There are two types of long-term memory: episodic memory and semantic memory.
Question # 33: Which of the following is least likely to be revealed by a paper prototype?

o Your users don't know the term algorithm

o Toolbar buttons are too small to press Click here for more Detail

o The Help menu isn't in the right place

o Radio buttons are too small

Question # 34: ________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several
problems that currently plague the development of digital products.

o Scenario

o Persona Page # 187

o Prototype

o None

The persona is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that currently plague the
development of digital products.

Question # 35: The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

o Gulf of Execution Page # 103

o Gulf of Evaluation

o Both of the above options

o None of these

The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the gulf of execution.
Question # 36: Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,
from the range of __________.

o Possibilities available Page # 76

o Time Available

o None of these

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

Question # 37: The goals of HCI are:

o Usability and User Experience Page # 30

o Learn ability and Comfort

o Tasks and Goals

o All of the above options

Question # 38: WYSIWYG stands for ____________.

o Where you see is where you get

o What you see is what you get Page # 36

o When you see it when you get

WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)

Question # 39: ________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

o Pitch

o Loudness Page # 70

o Timber

o None of the given

Loudness is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency remains constant

Question # 40: Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of
the usability goals?

o It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.
Page # 31

o It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.

o It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions

o It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Effectiveness: It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.

Question # 41: Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the
usability goals?

o It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose to do.

o It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks. Page # 31

o It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions

o It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Efficiency : It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
Question # 42: User personas that are not primary or secondary are _____ personas.

o Served

o Negative

o Customer

o Supplemental Page # 196

Supplemental personas
User personas that are not primary or secondary are supplemental personas

Question # 43: Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with
what we wanted to happen?

o Action

o Evaluation Page # 99

o Execution

o None of these

Action Cycle: Human action has two aspects, execution and evaluation. Execution involves doing something. Evaluation is
the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen.

Question # 44: ________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich,
multivariate detail.

o Quantitative

o Qualitative Page # 166

o SME

o None of these
Qualitative research can tell you about what, how and why in rich, multivariate detail.
Question # 45: Requirements specification involves:

A. Capturing the functional requirements of the system architecture

B. Eliciting information about the Work domain from the customer.

o Only A

o Only B Click here for more Detail

o Both A and B

o Not A and Not B

Question # 46: What are the Most common things you do with the product is a type of _______.

o Goal- oriented question

o System - oriented question Page # 182

o Workflow- oriented question

o Attitude-oriented question

System-oriented questions
Function
What are the most common things you do with the product?

Question # 47: What do you procrastinate on? is type of _________

o Priorities

o Avoidance Page # 183

o Exceptions

o Preference

Avoidance
What would you prefer not to do?
What do you procrastinate on?
Question # 48: _________ Cognitive process involves encoding and recalling knowledge and
acting appropriately

o Attention

o Reduction

o Memory Click here for more Detail and also Read PPT slides

o Encoding

Memory : Involves encoding and recalling knowledge and acting appropriately

Question # 49: During _______ usage and workflow patterns discovered through analysis of the
field research and interviews are synthesized into domain and user models

o Research

o Modeling Page # 159

o Framework

o Interview

Modeling: During the modeling phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through analysis of the field research
and interviews are synthesized into domain and user models.

Question # 50: Transactional sites that are used for a significant part of an employee‟s job should
be considered full _____________ applications.

o Sovereign Page # 30

o Transient

o Temporary

o None of the given

Transactional sites that are used for a significant part of an employee's job should be considered full sovereign
applications.
Question # 51: ___________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in
time, from the range of possibilities available.

o Perception and recognition

o Attention Page # 76

o Learning

o None of these
Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range of possibilities available.

Question # 52: HCI deals with _______________________.

o Design of interactive system only

o Evaluation of interactive system only

o Implementation of interactive system only

o All of the given choices

Question # 53: When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person
is saying. It is called?

o Focused Attention Page # 78

o Voluntary Attention

o Involuntary attention

o Divided Attention

Focused Attention
For example, when engaged in a conversation it is usual to attend to what the other person is saying.
Question # 54: Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of
_________.

o Focused Attention

o Voluntary Attention

o Involuntary attention

o Divided Attention Page # 78

Divided Attention
As we said, we may be skilled at carrying on the conversation while intermittently observing what the person we want to talk
to is doing. When we attempt to attend to mire than one thing at a time, as in the above example, it is called divided attention.
Another example that is often used to illustrate this intentional phenomenon is being able to drive while holding a
conversation with a passenger.

Question # 55: ____________ minimizes errors.

o Affordance

o Constraints

o Visibility Page # 104

o Affordance and Visibility

Question # 56: ___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.

o Pull Down Menus Page # 132

o Main Menus

o Icons

o Buttons

Pull-down menus are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen, by moving the mouse pointer into the title
par area and pressing the button.
Question # 57: ________ aspect (s) gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface
idioms, like dialog boxes and pushbuttons.

o Efficient

o Strategic

o Tactical Page # 143

o Reliable

Tactical aspects give us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms, like dialog boxes and pushbuttons.

Question # 58: The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

o Hartson

o Webster

o Barry Boehm

o Deborah Mayhew Page # 153

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by Deborah Mayhew in 1999.

Question # 59: Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two
different modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________.

o Analytic mode, synthetic mode Page # 153

o Evaluation mode, testing mode

o Analyze mode, feedback mode

o Implementation mode, task mode

Two different modes of activity: analytic mode and synthetic mode.

Question # 60: Alia is used to describe design problem /solution by___________ that is an
imagined or projected sequence of events, especially any of several detailed plans or possibilities

o Persona

o Scenario

o Flowchart

o Brainstorming

Question # 61: ________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected
by the user to invoke specific operations.

o Buttons Page # 133

o Pointers

o Menus

o Windows

Buttons are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to invoke specific operations.
Question # 62: Around 63% of software projects exceed their cost estimates. The top four reasons
for
This are:
A– Frequent requests for changes from users
B– Overlooked tasks
C– Users' lack of understanding of their own requirements
D– Insufficient user-analyst communication and understanding

o Only A

o Only B

o Only D

o ABC&D Page # 27

Around 63% of software projects exceed their cost estimates. The top four reasons for
this are:
– Frequent requests for changes from users
– Overlooked tasks
– Users' lack of understanding of their own requirements
– Insufficient user-analyst communication and understanding

Question # 63: ________of the potential sales from a site are lost because people cannot find the
item they are looking for

o 50% Page # 141

o 40%

o 30%

o 10%

50% of the potential sales from a site are lost because people cannot find the item they are looking for
Question # 64: Human eye is very sensitive to ______

o Air

o Smoke

o Light Page # 55 and 56

o Sand

Question # 65: Top of the web page contain the _________

o Menu

o Title bar

o Home icon

o Back button

Question # 66: You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.

o Physical constraints Page # 106

o Logical constraints

o Cultural constraints

o None of these

Physical constraints: Physical constraints refer to the way physical objects restrict the movement of things. For example,
the way a external disk can be placed into a disk drive is physically constrained by its shape and size, so that it can be
inserted in only one way. Likewise, keys on a pad can usually be pressed in only one way.
Question # 67: ____________ are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious
deliberation.

o Slips, mistakes Page # 100

o Errors, slips

o Mistakes, errors

o Mistakes, slips

Slips
Slips are unintentional. They happen by accident, such as making typos by pressing the wrong key or selecting wrong menu
item by overshooting. The most frequent errors are slips, especially in well-learned behavior.

Mistakes
Mistakes occur through conscious deliberation. An incorrect action is taken based on an incorrect decision. For example,
trying to throw the icon of the hard disk into the wastebasket, in the desktop metaphor, as a way of removing all existing files
from the disk is a mistake. A menu option to erase the disk is appropriate action.

Question # 68: What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human
problem solving?

o It operates within the constraints of the human processing system Page # 91

o It explains what is involved in insight

o It allows ill-defined problems to be solved

o None of these

Reference:
Click here for more detail
Question # 69: Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers
"404 894 6743" because:

o Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.

o The grouping of the numbers is significant

o Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.

o None of these

Question # 70: Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master
apprentice model of learning.

o True

o False Page # 176

Contextual inquiry: Contextual inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-
apprentice model of learning: observing and asking questions of the users as if she is the master
craftsman and he interviews the new apprentice.

Question # 71: The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona

o Primary

o Secondary

o Served Page # 159

o Negative
Served: the persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use
Question # 72: Which of the following is not a secondary color?

o Green

o Orange

o Purple

o Blue Page # 63

Secondary Colors: These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.
SECONDARY COLORS
Green, orange and purple

Question # 73: Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

o Listening Page # 87

o Speaking

o Hearing

o None of the given

Listening require less cognitive effort than reading or speaking.

Question # 74: We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development
__________ (respectively).

o Process, Tools Page # 23

o Tools, Process

o Tools, Methodology

o None of these

We are deficient in our development process, not in our development tools.

Question # 75: The command line interface is used because:

o It is easy to understand

o It is demanded by DOS

o It is offered by UNIX systems

o It is powerful and flexible Page # 127

Command line interface are powerful in that they offer direct access to system functionality, and can be combined to apply a
number of tools to the same data. They are also flexible: the command often has a number of options or parameters that will vary
its behavior in some way, and it can be applied to many objects at once, making it useful for repetitive tasks.

Question # 76: Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human
behavior and the mental processes that underlie it?

o Psychology Page # 43

o Sociology

o Statistics

o Computer Science

Psychology is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the mental processes that underlie it.

Question # 77: ________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines
and human understanding.

o Human

o Computer

o Human Computer Interaction Page # 14

o None of these

HCI plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human understanding that we have
seen in the previous examples.
Question # 78: The persona‟s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.

o Primary Page # 159

o Secondary

o Supplement

o Negative

Primary: the persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and behavior

Question # 79: A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose
of the various modes.

o Button

o Pointer

o Palette Page # 133

o Title bar

A palette is usually a collection of icons that are reminiscent of the purpose of the various modes.

Question # 80: During _________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through
_________.

o Modeling, analysis Page # 159

o Analysis, modeling

o Testing, modeling

o Testing, Analysis

Modeling: During the modeling phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through analysis of the field research
and interviews are synthesized into domain and user models.
Question # 81: The Star lifecycle was proposed by ______________.

o Deborah Mayhew

o Webster

o Barry Boehm

o Hartson Page # 152

In 1989, the Star lifecycle model was proposed by Hartson and Hix.

Question # 82: Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be
completed before the next step can be started.

o Incremental

o Linear Page # 149

o Iterative

o Analytical

The waterfall lifecycle was the first model generally known in software engineering and forms the basis of many lifecycle in
use today. This is basically a linear model in which each step must be completed before the next step can be started.

Question # 83: What do you enjoy most about your job (or lifestyle) is an example of _________.

o Avoidance

o Motivation Page # 183

o Exceptions

o Attitude-oriented questions

Motivation
What do you enjoy most about your job (or lifestyle)?
What do you always tackle first?
Question # 84: ________ represents the Early-phase of ethnographic interviews.

o Clarify user roles and behaviors

o Confirm patterns of use

o Clarifying questions

o Focused on domain knowledge Page # 181

Early-phase
• Exploratory
• Focused on domain knowledge
• Open-ended questions

Question # 85: There can only be one _________ persona per interface for a product.

o Primary Page # 196

o Secondary

o Supplemental

o Customer

Primary personas represent the primary target for the design of an interface. There can be only one primary persona per interface
for a product.

Question # 86: What are the most common things you do with the product is a type of _______.

o Goal-oriented question.

o System-oriented question. Page # 182

o Workflow-oriented question.

o Attitude-oriented question.

System-oriented questions
Function: What are the most common things you do with the product?
Question # 87: ________ represent the user‟s expectations of the tangible outcomes of using a
specific product.

o Non-user goals

o End goals Page # 192

o Experience goals

o Life goals

End goals represent the user‟s expectations of the tangible outcomes of using specific product.

Question # 88: __________personas address the needs of customers, not end users.

o Served

o Negative

o Customer Page # 197

o Supplemental

Customer personas address the needs of customers, not end users. Typically, customer personas are treated like
secondary personas.

Question # 89: Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

o True

o False Page # 189

Personas and reuse

– Personas context-specific
• Cannot be reused across products
Slide No. 22 Page # 21/61
Question # 90: The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

o Physical Page # 106

o Logical

o Cultural

o None of these

Physical constraints
Physical constraints refer to the way physical objects restrict the movement of things. For example, the way a external disk
can be placed into a disk drive is physically constrained by its shape and size, so that it can be inserted in only one way.
Likewise, keys on a pad can usually be pressed in only one way.

Question # 91: Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?

o a typical keyboard

o a typical monitor

o a typical speaker

o a typical processor

Monitors are useless to the visually impaired or blind person.

Question # 92: The gulf of execution refers to __________.

o The user‟s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system

o The system‟s difficulty in presenting information in the output language

o The system‟s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state transition

o The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Question # 93: Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can
be considered as general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which of the following are
also high level usability categories that can guide standards and guidelines generation?

(i) Effectiveness
(ii) Efficiency
(iii) Fault tolerance
(iv)Satisfaction

Select correct option:

o (i) & (ii) Page # 31

o (i), (ii) & (iv)

o (ii) & (iii)

o (ii) & (iv)

usability is broken down into the following goals:

• Effective to use (effectiveness)
• Efficient to use (efficiency)
• Safe to use(safety)
• Have good utility (utility)
• Easy to learn (learnability)
• Easy to remember how to use (memorability)

Question # 94: Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

o Red

o Yellow

o Blue

o Green Page # 62

Primary Colors
In traditional color theory, these are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors.
All other colors are derived from these 3 hues
PRIMARY COLORS
Red, yellow and blue
Question # 95: Human beings interact with outside world, using their

o input channels

o output channels

o sense of sight

o All of the given Page # 54

A person‟s interaction with the outside world occurs through information being received and sent: input and output.
Sight may be used primarily in receiving information from the computer, but it can also be used to provide information
to the computer, for example by fixating on a particular screen point when using an eye gaze system.

Question # 96: Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their

o Sense of sight

o Sense of hearing

o Both sense of touch and sense of hearing

o Sense of touch

Question # 97: __________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the
world.

o Visibility

o Affordance

o Mapping Page # 107

o None of the given

Mapping
This refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the world
Question # 98: _________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at
doing what it is suppose to do.

o Effectiveness Page # 31

o Efficiency

o Utility

o None of the given

Question # 99: __________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday
activities?

o Cognition Page # 47

o Learnability

o Memorability

o None of the given

Question # 100: ___________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw
conclusions or infer something new about the domain of interest.

o Decision Making

o Reasoning Page # 89

o Problem Solving

o None of the given

Question # 101: ________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a
product in different, more useful ways than _______research do.

o Qualitative, Quantitative Page # 167

o Quantitative, Qualitative

o Qualitative, Deductive

o None of them

Question # 102: In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local
gurus. This statement concerns with ____________.

o Paper work and computer work

o Spatial and temporal organizations

o Organizational memory Page # 176

o None of these

Organizational memory
Formal documents are not the only way in which things are remembered within an organization. Individuals may keep their
own records, or there maybe local gurus.

Question # 103: Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________
constraint.

o Physical

o Logical

o Cultural Page # 106

o None of these
Question # 104: __________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people
to know how to use it.

o Visibility

o Affordance Page # 105

o Constraint

o None of these

Question # 105: _________ minimizes errors.

o Affordance

o Visibility Page # 104

o Constraints

o None of these

Question # 106: Models are used in design to:

o Generate the design

o Evaluate the design

o Generate and evaluate the design Click here for more Detail

o None of the given

Question # 107: Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?

o Sight and hearing

o Hearing, touch and smell

o Hearing and touch

o Sight, hearing and touch Click here for more Detail

The major senses in human interaction are vision, hearing and touch.

Question # 108: _________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.

o Efficiency Page # 31

o Effectiveness

o Utility

o None of the given

Efficiency
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.

Question # 109: _________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects
in the real world to match the knowledge requirements of users.

o User Interaction Models

o Conceptual Models

o Interface Metaphors Page # 51

o None of the given

Interface metaphors are (these are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects in the real world) to
match the knowledge requirements of users.
Question # 110: ________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often
Ungrammatical.

o Written, spoken Page # 87

o Spoken, written

o Verbal, non-verbal

o None of the given

Written language tends to be grammatical while spoken language is often ungrammatical.

Question # 111: Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.

o Strategic

o Tactical Page # 143

o Operational

o None of the given choices

Strategic aspect guides us to think about user interface idioms – in other words, the way in which the
user and the idiom interact. Tactical aspects give us hints and tips about using and creating user
interface idioms, like dialog boxes and pushbuttons.

Question # 112: Faisal is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified
two different modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________.

o Analytic mode, synthetic mode Page # 153

o Evaluation mode, testing mode

o Analyze mode, feedback mode

o Implementation mode, task mode

Two different modes of activity: analytic mode and synthetic mode.

Question # 113: ___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.

o Pull Down Menus Page # 132

o Main Menus

o Icons

o Buttons

Pull-down menus are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen, by moving the mouse pointer into the title par area
and pressing the button.

Question # 114: When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other
person is saying. It is called?

o Focused Attention Page # 78

o Voluntary Attention

o Involuntary attention

o Divided Attention

Focused Attention: For example, when engaged in a conversation it is usual to attend to what the other person is saying.
Question # 115: Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of
_________ .

o Focused Attention

o Voluntary Attention

o Involuntary attention

o Divided Attention Page # 78

Divided Attention
As we said, we may be skilled at carrying on the conversation while intermittently observing what the person we want to talk
to is doing. When we attempt to attend to mire than one thing at a time, as in the above example, it is called divided attention.
Another example that is often used to illustrate this intentional phenomenon is being able to drive while holding a
conversation with a passenger.

Question # 116: GOMS stands for:

o Goals operation methods and selection rules Page # 50

o Goals objects models and selection rules

o Goals operations methods and state rules

o Goals operations models and state rules

Question # 117: Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

o Hue

o Intensity

o Saturation

o All of the given Page # 59

Hue: Hue is determined by the spectral wavelength of the light. Blues have short wavelength, greens medium and reds
long. Approximately 150 different hues can be discriminated by the average person.
Intensity: Intensity is the brightness of the color.
Saturation: Saturation is the amount of whiteness in the colors.
Question # 118: _________ is a Usability Goal and refers to how easy a system is to remember
how to use, once learned.

o Learnability

o Memorability Page # 32

o Utility

o None of the given

Memorability
It refers to how easy a system is to remember how to use, once learned. This is especially important for interactive
systems that are used infrequently.

Question # 119: A mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its
plastic shell, is an example of ________ Design Principle.

o Visibility

o Affordance Page # 105

o Mapping

o None of the given

Affordance is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to use it. For example, a
mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its plastic shell.
Question # 120: Ali is working on a document called cv in MS word now wishes to make a copy
of it on disk so he can make some changes to the original. Which of the following process will help?

o Redo

o Archiving

o Undo

o Milestoning

Question # 121: When you try to log to yahoo. You wrongly enter password in capital letter, due
to which error message arise invalid username and password. Which of the following error message
dialog will appear?

o Alerts

o Confirmation

o Feedback

o Delete.

Question # 122: With the help of ____Model, one can quantify (on the basis of Quantitative
Measurements) the human performance in using computer based system

o GOMS

o Human Processor model

o Quantum model

o Quality Model
Question # 123: Ethnography is a method that comes originally from anthropology and literally
means

o Writing the culture Page # 173

o Social issues

o Ethical issues

o Ethics

Ethnography is a method that comes originally from anthropology and literally means “writing the culture”.

Question # 124: Physical objects are said to have____affordance.

o Real Page # 105

o Perceived

o Logical

o Intuitive

Physical objects are said to have real affordances, like grasping, that are perceptually obvious and do not have to be
learned.

Question # 125: Which of these specialists is user centered?

o HCI Page # 21

o Software engineer

o Computing technology

o Web Designer
Human-computer interface specialists are user-centered and software engineers are system-centered.
 CS408 - Human Computer Interaction
SHORT QUESTION ANSWER FOR MID TERM
Qno.1 Define Attention
Answer:-
Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range
of possibilities available
REF:: handouts Page No. 76

Qno.2 Define Recognition

Answer:-
Recognition refers to act of recognizing or the state of being recognized,
identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, and known as.
REF:: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recognition

Qno.3 what is the difference between Tertiary and Analogous colors? [2]
Answer:-
These are the colors formed by mixing one primary and one secondary color.
TERTIARY COLORS
Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green.
Analogous colors are any three colors, which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel,
Such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors
Predominates
REF:: handouts Page No. 64

Qno.4 Comment to justify the following statement.

“Most users are neither beginners nor experts; instead they are intermediates”
What are the pointing devices? Explain trackball as pointing device? [2+3]
Answer:-
According to the statement pointing devices will help for the beginner user because we can use
to deal easily with requirement. Pointing devices are input devices that can be used to specify a
point or path in a one-, Two- or three- dimensional space and, like keyboards, their
characteristics have to be considering in relation to design needs.
Pointing devices are as follow:
• Mouse
• Touch pad
• Track ball
• Joystick
• Touch screen
• Eye gaze
Trackballs is other alternatives. The user is presented with a cursor on the screen that is
controlled by the input device.
REF:: handouts Page No. 64, 115
Qno.5 Consider the vertical scroll bar of a web browser or word processor. For each of
Norman’s five principles below, give one way that the scrollbar uses the principle for effective
design. Describe the interface model of the scroll bar in one sentence.
[2*5]
Affordance:
Constraints:
Mapping:
Visibility:
Feedback:

Answer:-
As consider the vertical scroll bar of a web browser or word processor. According to the
Norman’s principles we design the scrollbar uses the principle for effective design that users
should see and do when carrying out their tasks using an interactive product. Here we briefly
describe which is given:-

Affordance is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know How
to use it.
For example, a mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its plastic
shell. At a very simple level, to afford means “to give a clue.” When the affordances of a physical
object are perceptually obvious it is easy to know how to interact with it

Constraints:
The design concept of constraining refers to determining ways of restricting the kind of user
interaction that can take place at a given moment. There are various ways this can be achieved.
An Interface design in graphical user interfaces is to deactivate certain menu options by shading
them, thereby restricting the user to only actions permissible at that stage of the activity.
 Physical constraints
Physical constraints refer to the way physical objects restrict the movement of things.

 Logical constraints
Logical constraints rely on people’s understanding of the way the world works
 Culture constraints
Culture constraints rely on learned conventions, like the use of red for warning, the use
of certain kinds of signals for danger, and the use of the smiley face to represent happy
emotions

Mapping:
This refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the world. Nearly all artifacts
need some kind of mapping between controls and effects, whether it is a flashlight, car, power
plant, or cockpit. An example of a good mapping between controls is effect is the up and down
arrows used to represent the up and down movement of the cursor, respectively, on a
computer keyboard.
Visibility:
The more visible functions are, the more likely users will be able to know what to do next. In
contrast, when functions are “out of sight,” it makes them more difficult to fid and knows how
to use. Norman describes the controls of a car to emphasize this point. The controls for different
operations are clearly visible (e.g., indicator, headlights, horn, hazard warning lights), indicating
what can be done.

Feedback
Related to the concept of visibility is feedback. This is best illustrated by an analogy to what
everyday life would be like without it. Imagine trying to play a guitar, slice bread using knife, or
write a pen if none of the actions produced any effect for several seconds. There would be an
unbearable delay before the music was produced, the bread was cut, or the words appeared on
the paper, making it almost impossible for the person to continue with the next strum, saw, or
stroke.
Feedback is about sending back information about what action has been done and what has
been accomplished, allowing the person to continue with the activity. Various kinds of feedback
are available for interaction design—audio, tactile, verbal, visual, and combinations of these.
REF:: handouts Page No. 104 -108

Qno.6 As a product designer what you need to do for constructing personas. Write all steps
Answer:-
Being a product designer we use to do constructing personas steps:-
1. Revisit the persona hypothesis
2. Map interview subjects to behavioral variables
3. Identify significant behavior patterns
4. Synthesize characteristics and relevant goals.
5. Check for completeness.
6. Develop narratives
7. Designate persona types
REF:: handouts Page No. 14

Qno.6 you are product designer. You are making plan to introduce a shampoo. Just one type
of shampoo for every user. Is this plan good or not. Answer yes or no, and support your
answer.

No! it is not a good plan and being product designer, we are making plan to introduce a
shampoo for every one, It also includes performance things like how well it cleans, what the
foam looks and feels like and how irritating it will be. Often consumer testing is employed to
help with determining these characteristics.

The basic ingredient in a shampoo formulation is as follows for the betterment of gathering
market.
Water. It helps dilute the detergents, makes the formula easier to spread and reduces irritation.
It also keeps the formula inexpensive
Detergents. The next most abundant ingredients in a shampoo. These surfactants are the
primary cleansing ingredients and make up about 10% – 15% of the formula.
Foam Boosters. Other types of surfactants are added to shampoos to improve the foaming
characteristics of the formulation. These compounds usually botanies or alkanolamides, help
increase the amount of foam and the size of the bubbles.

Thickeners. To some extent the secondary detergents make shampoo formulations thicker.
Simply adding salt can also increase shampoo thickness.

Conditioning agents. Some materials are added to shampoos to offset the harsh effect of
surfactants. Typical conditioning agents include polymers, silicones, and quaternary agents

Preservatives. Any formula that contains water holds the potential to be contaminated by
bacteria and other microbes.

According the statement user should change occasionally if we don't get the build up of just
one shampoo to another variety of shampoo
REF:: http://chemistscorner.com/how-shampoos-are-made/

Qno.6 Norman model focus on which principal of HCI?

Answer.
MENTAL MODEL
REF:: handouts Page No. 63

Qno.7 briefly explain physical constraints: 02 Marks

answer.
Physical constraints refer to the way physical objects restrict the movement of things.
For example, the way external disk can be placed into a disk drive is physically constrained by its
shape and size, so that it can be inserted in only one way. Likewise, keys on a pad can usually be
pressed in only one way.
REF:: handouts Page No. 106

Qno.8 what user-centered approach means 02 Marks

Answer.
The user-centered approach means that the real users and their goals, not just technology,
should be the driving force behind development of a product.
REF:: handouts Page No. 172

Qno.9 usefulness of metaphor 03 Marks

Answer.
There are several dimensions along which the usefulness of a metaphor can be evaluated. A
good metaphor, for example, might help the developers understand and agree on the
functionality of the system they are designing.
REF:: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/isri/CMU-ISRI-03-100.pdf
Qno.10 which includes in research phase of goal-directed design model 03 marks
Answer.
Goal-directed approach to design is the premise that product must balance business and
engineering concerns with user concerns. You begin by asking, “What do people desire?” then
you ask, “of the things people desire, what will sustain a business.” And finally you ask, “Of the
things people desire, that will also sustain the business, what can we build?” a common trap is
to focus on technology while losing the sight of viability and desirability.
REF:: handouts Page No. 157

Qno.11 how customer goal are diffent from corporate goal with respect to Non User Goal 05
Marks
Answer.
Customer goals, corporate goals, and technical goals are all non-user goals. Typically, these goals
must be acknowledged and considered, but they do not form the basis for the design direction.
Although these goals need to be addressed, they must not be addressed at the expense of the
use
REF:: handouts Page No. 193

Qno.12 why dialog boxes are used in WIMP explain it with an example 05 Marks
Answer.
There are also many additional interaction objects and techniques commonly used in WIMP
interfaces, some designed for specific purposes and others more general. Our discussion will
cover the toolbars, menus, buttons, palettes and dialog boxes. Together, these elements of the
WIMP interfaces are called widgets, and they comprise the toolkit for interaction between user
and system.
Example
Normal pointer cursor maybe an arrow, but change to change to cross-hairs when drawing a
line. Cursors are also used to tell the user about system activity.
REF:: handouts Page No. 131

Qno.13 How to construct persona (step).

Answer.
1. Define the problem
2. Identify the people
3. Get into the field
REF:: http://chopsticker.com/2007/09/13/a-10-step-summary-of-how-to-create-personas/

Qno.14 How can you improve a website interface of a university through GUI
Answer.
As the university matured, In the move from command-line to graphical user interface, design
and usability also became involved in the process, though often only at the end, and often only
affecting visual presentation. Today common practice includes simultaneous coding and design
followed by bug and user testing and then revision.
University improve the website interface through GUI which is given
 Padded block links
 Typesetting buttons
 Using contrast to manage focus
 Using color to manage attention
 Using color to manage attention
 Letter spacing
 Auto-focus on input
 Hover controls
REF:: handouts Page No. 145
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-
user-interface-designs/

Qno.15 why do you prefer command line interface.

Answer.
The command-line interface forces an even more expensive excise budget on the user: He must
first memorize the commands. Also, he cannot easily configure his screen to his own personal
requirements. The excise of the command-line interface becomes smaller only after the user has
invested significant time and effort in learning it.
REF:: handouts Page No. 246

Qno.16 where do you use check boxes and radio buttons

Answer.
Radio buttons
Buttons can also be used to toggle between two states, displaying status information such as
whether the current font is italicized or not in a word processor or selecting options on a web
form.

Check boxes
It a set of options is not mutually exclusive, such as font characteristics like bold, italic and
underlining, and then a set of toggle buttons can be used to indicate the on/off status of the
options.
REF:: handouts Page No. 133

Qno.17 how do use modeling phase of software development while selecting persona.
Answer.
The persona is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that
currently plague the development of digital products. Personas help designers”

• Determine what a product should do and how it should behave. Persona goals and tasks
provide the basis for the design effort.
• Communicate with stakeholders, developers, and other designers. Personas provide a
common language for discussing design decisions, and also help keep
the design centered on users at every step in the process.
• Build consensus and commitment to the design. With a common language comes a common
understanding. Personas reduce the need for elaborate diagrammatic models because, as it is
found, it is easier to understand the many nuances of user behavior through the narrative
structures that personas employ.
• Measure the design’s effectiveness. Design choices can be tested on a persona in the same
way that they can be show to a real user during the formative process. Although this doesn’t
replace the need to test on real users. It provides a powerful reality check tool for designers
trying to solve design problems. This allows design iteration to occur rapidly and inexpensively
at the whiteboard, and it results in a far stronger design baseline when the time comes to test
with real users.
• Contribute to other product-related efforts such as marketing and sales plan. It has been seen
that clients repurpose personas across their organization, informing marketing campaigns,
organizational structure, and other strategic planning activities. Business units outside of
product development desire sophisticated knowledge of a product’s users and typically view
personas with great interest.
REF:: handouts Page No. 187

Qno.18 Describe Norman's interaction framework with reference to the action and evaluation
cycle.
Answer.
The interaction framework breaks the system into four main components, as per Donald
Norman’s Model of interaction. In which user chooses a goal, formulate a plan of action, which
is then executed at the computer interface. When the plan or part of the plan has been
executed, the user observes the computer interface to evaluate the result of the execution plan,
and to determine further actions

Gulf of execution and evaluation

Norman also describes the two gulfs, which represent the problems that are caused by some
interfaces to their users.

Gulf of execution
Gulf of execution is the difference between the user’s formulation of the actions to reach the
goal and the actions allowed by the system. If the action allowed by the system correspond to
those intended by the user, the interaction will effective. The interface should therefore aim to
reduce this gulf of execution.

Gulf of evaluation
The gulf of evaluation is the distance between the physical presentation of the system state and
the expectation of the user. If the user can readily evaluate the presentation in terms of his goal,
the gulf of evaluation is small. The more effort that is required on the part of the user to
interpret the presentation, the less effective the interaction
REF:: handouts Page No. 122

Qno.18 what is the gulf of evaluation and gulf of execution? Your answer must also be
illustrated with a diagram
Answer.

Gulf of execution and evaluation

Norman also describes the two gulfs, which represent the problems that are caused by some
interfaces to their users.
Gulf of execution
Gulf of execution is the difference between the user’s formulation of the actions to reach the
goal and the actions allowed by the system. If the action allowed by the system correspond to
those intended by the user, the interaction will effective. The interface should therefore aim to
reduce this gulf of execution.

Gulf of evaluation
The gulf of evaluation is the distance between the physical presentation of the system state and
the expectation of the user. If the user can readily evaluate the presentation in terms of his goal,
the gulf of evaluation is small. The more effort that is required on the part of the user to
interpret the presentation, the less effective the interaction

REF:: handouts Page No. 122

Qno.19 describes the design principles given below with some examples and explain their
implications for interface design. �Visibility �Affordance
Answer.

Visibility:
The more visible functions are, the more likely users will be able to know what to do next. In
contrast, when functions are “out of sight,” it makes them more difficult to fid and knows how
to use. Norman describes the controls of a car to emphasize this point. The controls for different
operations are clearly visible (e.g., indicator, headlights, horn, hazard warning lights), indicating
what can be done.

Affordance is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know How
to use it.

For example, a mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its plastic
shell. At a very simple level, to afford means “to give a clue.” When the affordances of a physical
object are perceptually obvious it is easy to know how to interact with it
REF:: handouts Page No. 104 -108
Qno.20 Define usability and user experience. Draw a conceptual diagram that illustrates the
relationship between an interface, usability, user experience and the interaction between
humans and computers. Provide a brief explanation of this diagram with examples.
Usability User Experience
Answer:-
Usability is a narrower concept than user experience since it only focuses on goal achievement
when using a web site. By contrast, user experience is a “consequence of the presentation,
functionality, system performance, interactive behaviour, and assistive capabilities of the
interactive system”. This essentially means that user experience includes aspects such as human
factors, design, ergonomics, HCI, accessibility, marketing as well as usability. An alternative way
to look at this relationship is by subdividing user experience into utility, usability, desirability and
brand experience. This is best illustrated by representing these sub divisions as concentric circles
where the innermost circle is the most basic aspect of user experience as shown in the diagram
below:

Example the credibility of a site that provides health advice will have a massive influence on its
overall effectiveness. You might be able to find the information you want quickly. But if you
don’t trust the source as being credible then the website is not effective for its purpose. This is
bad usability
REF:: http://usabilitygeek.com/the-difference-between-usability-and-user-experience/
Qno.21 Suppose you are a product designer and have to create a product that satisfy broad
audience but some “Self-referential design”. A user-Centered design issue arises during
product development. What are they and how persona resolves them? 5 marks
Answer:-
Being a product designer keeping in the mind before we going to create a product that satisfy
board audience in self referential design which are given :
Personas
To create a product that must satisfy a broad audience of users, logic tells you to make it as
broad in its functionality as possible to accommodate the most people. This logic, however, is
flawed. The best way to successfully accommodate a variety of users is to design for specific
types of individuals with specific needs.

Personas also resolve three User-Centered design issues that arise during product development:
 The elastic user
 Self-referential design
 Design edge cases

The elastic user

Although satisfying the user is goal, the term user causes trouble when applied to specific design
problems and contexts. Its imprecision makes it unusable as a design tool—every person on a
product team has his own conceptions of the user and what the user needs.

Self-referential design
Self-referential design occurs when designers or developers project their own goals,
motivations, skills, and mental models onto a product’s design. Most “cool” product designs fall
into this category: the audience doesn’t extend beyond people like the designer, which is fine
for a narrow range of products and completely inappropriate for most others. Similarly,
programmers apply self-referential design when they create implementation-model products.
They understand perfectly how it works and are comfortable with such products. Few non-
programmers would concur.

Design edge cases

Another syndrome that personas help prevent is designing for edge cases—those situations that
might possibly happen, but usually won’t for the target personas. Naturally, edge cases must be
programmed for, but they should never be the design focus. Personas provide a reality check for
the design.
REF:: handouts Page No. 186-187

Qno.22 Give the two real world example of QWERTY keyboard. 3 marks
Answer:
ar keyboard = qwertyHancock('keyboard', 600, 150, 3,
'A3', 'white', 'black', '#f3e939')
Qno.23 Being a researcher, identify in which phases of ethnographic interviews you Explore,
Identify patterns of use and Confirm patterns of use? Briefly explain them. 3 marks
Answer:
Being researcher ethnography is term borrowed form anthropology, meaning the systematic
and immersive study of human cultures. In anthropology, ethnographic researchers spend years
living immersed in the cultures they study and record. Ethnographic interviews take the spirit of
this type of research and apply it on a micro level. Rather than trying to understand behaviors
and social ritual of an entire culture, the goal is understand the behaviors and rituals of people
interacting with individual products.
 Identifying candidates
 The personal hypothesis
REF:: handouts Page No. 178

Qno.24 As a HCI specialist, if we design a system with good usability and good user
experience, what will be the result? 3 marks
Answer:
As a HCI specialist, we design a system with good usability and good user experience we may
use basic fundamental difference between the approaches taken by software engineers and
human-computer interaction specialists. Human-computer interface specialists are user-
centered and software engineers are system-centered. Software engineering methodologies are
good at modeling certain aspects of the problem domain. Formal methods have been developed
to represent data, architectural, and procedural aspects of a software system. Software
engineering approaches deal with managerial and financial issues well. Software engineering
methodologies are useful for specifying and building the functional aspects of a software
system. Human-computer interfaces emphasize developing a deep understanding of user
characteristics and a clear awareness of the tasks a user must perform.
REF:: handouts Page No. 21

Qno.25 being a researcher, what is the need of literature review in research in your point of
view? Give brief answer. 2 marks
Answer:
In parallel with stakeholder interviews, the design team should review any literature pertaining
to the product or its domain. This can and should include product marketing plans, market
research, technology specifications and white papers, business and technical journal articles in
the domain, competitive studies. Web searches for related and competing products and news,
usability study results and metrics, and customer support data such as call center statistics.
REF:: handouts Page No. 171

Qno.26 List four kinds of translated input events. 2 marks

Answer:
1. Mouse click or double-click
2. Mouse entered or exited component
3. Keyboard focus gained or lost
 4. Character typed
REF:: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/classes/6.831/lectures/L7.pdf

Qno.27 what is a semantic network

Answer:
Semantic memory is structured in some way to allow access to information, representation of
relationships between pieces of information, and inference. One model for the way in which
semantic memory is structured is as a network. Items are associated to each other in classes,
and may inherit attributes from parent classes. This model is known as a semantic network
REF:: handouts Page No. 82

Qno.28 if you are spouse to be a software engineer then what u assume about the life cycle of
the models? 5 makes.
Answer:
The traditional view of software engineering characterizes the development of software as
Consisting of number of processes and representations that are produced in an essentially linear
fashion. This is often called waterfall model, because the output of each process ‘tumbles down’
neatly to the next activity. Projects involving only a few experienced developers, a simple
process would probably be adequate. However, for larger systems involving tens or hundreds of
developers with hundreds or thousands of users, a simple process just isn’t enough to provide
the management structure and discipline necessary to engineer a usable product. So something
is needed that will provide more formality and more discipline. Note that this does not mean
that innovation is lost or that creativity is stifled. It just means that structured process is used to
provide a more stable framework for creativity.
REF:: handouts Page No. 149

Qno.29 Why the user are blamed themselves for guilty the insomnious or faults? 5 marks
Answer:
User can blamed badly designed objects—constructed so as to lead to misunderstanding—faulty
mental models, and poor feedback, no wonder people feel guilty when they have trouble using
objects, especially when they perceive that nobody else is having the same problems. The
problem is that once failure starts, it soon generalizes by self-blame to all technology. The
vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you
can’t do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can’t so you
don’t even try. The result is that you can’t, just as you thought. You are trapped in a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
REF:: handouts Page No. 97
Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers “404 894 6743″
because
Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.
The grouping of the numbers is significant
Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
None of these
Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can be considered as
general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which of the following are also high level
usability categories that can guide standards and guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency
(iii) Fault tolerance (iv) Satisfaction
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)
In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus. This statement
concerns with ____________. (Page # 176)
Paper work and computer work
Spatial and temporal organizations
Organizational memory
None of these
Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a
computer?
Sight and hearing
Hearing, touch and smell
Hearing and touch
Sight, hearing and touch
Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results
The gulf of execution refers to _______________ (page no 122)
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system
Which of the given statements correctly defines efficiency in terms of one of the usability goals?
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is supposed to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations
Which of the following is/are goal(s) of usability?
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Safety
All of the given
Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?
Hue
 Intensity
Saturation
All of the given
Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
PRIMARY COLORS
Red, yellow and blue
SECONDARY COLORS
Green, orange and purple
TERTIARY COLORS
Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green
Which of the following is considered as the most complex species?
Humans
Computers
Animals
Birds
The colors, which are directly opposite to each other are said to be
Complementary colors
Analogous colors
Primary colors
Secondary colors
Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?
A type of receptor in eye
more sensitive to light
Different types of cones are
Sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones
Formal methods are used to represent
Architectural aspects of software systems only
Procedural aspects of software systems only
Both architectural and procedural aspects of software systems
None of the given
Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the ______________
interface style, often simply called windowing systems.
Three-dimensional
WIMP
Point and click
None of these
Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________constraint.
Physical
Logical
Cultural
None of these
____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to know how to use
it.
 Visibility
Affordance
Constraint
None of these
____________ minimizes errors.
Affordance
Visibility
Constraints
None of these
Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency remains constant?
Pitch
Loudness
Timber
None of these
__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human
understanding.
Human
Computer
Human Computer Interaction
None of these
The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and behavior is
_____________ type of Persona.
Primary
Secondary
Supplement
Negative
A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various modes.
Button
Pointer
Palette
Title bar
The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use refers to
_______ persona
Primary
Secondary
Served
Negative
During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through ________.
Modeling, analysis
Analysis, modeling
Testing, modeling
Testing, Analysis
The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.
Deborah Mayhew
Webster
Barry Boehm.
Hartson
Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed before the next
step can be started
Incremental
Linear
Iterative
Analytical
Models are used in design to
Generate the design
Evaluate the design
Generate and evaluate the design
None of the given
What is a semantic network?
A model of long-term memory
A record of our memory of events
the part of the brain which allows us to remember things
a mechanism for improving memory
_____________ is like the building name for a website.
Site ID
Navigation
Section
None of the given
____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use with the prototype,
because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.
Co-discovery
Active intervention
Splendid research
None of the given
You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.
Physical constraints
Logical constraints
Cultural constraints
None of these
____________ are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious deliberation.
Slips, mistakes
Errors, slips
Mistakes, errors
Mistakes, slips
What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human problem solving?
It operates within the constraints of the human processing system
It explains what is involved in insight
It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
None of these
___________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range of
possibilities available.
Perception and recognition
Attention
Learning
None of these
The name of the document should be shown on the application’s__________.
Menu bar
Title bar
Title bar and menu bar
Not Title bar and not menu bar
Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice model of
learning.
True
False
Contextual inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice model of
learning
_________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that currently
plague the development of digital products.
Scenario
Persona
Prototype
The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:
Gulf of Execution
Gulf of Evaluation
None of these
Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from the range of
Possibilities available
Time Available
None of these
The goals of HCI are:
Usability and User Experience
Learn ability and Comfort
Tasks and Goals.
WYSIWYG stands for ____________.
Where you see is where you get
What you see is what you get
When you see it when you get
____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.
Pitch
Loudness
Timber
Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.
True
False
__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to invoke
specific operations.
Buttons
Pointers
Menus
Windows
User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.
Served
Negative
 Customer
Supplemental
Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to
happen?
Action
Evaluation
Execution
None of these
The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.
Physical
Logical
Cultural
None of these
_____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich, multivariate detail
Quantitative
Qualitative
SME
None of these
Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the usability goals?
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is supposed to do.
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations
Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?
Listening
Speaking
Hearing
None of the given
We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________ (respectively).
Process, Tools
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these
Which of the following is not true?
Utility refers to the functionality of a system
Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system
Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users
The command line interface is used because
It is easy to understand
It is demanded by DOS
It is offered by UNIX systems
It is powerful and flexible
Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the mental
processes that underlie it?
Cognitive Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
 Computer Science
HCI deals with
Design of interactive system only
Evaluation of interactive system only
Implementation of interactive system only
All of the given choices
Human beings interact with outside world, using their
input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given
Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their
Sense of sight
Sense of hearing
Both sense of touch and sense of hearing
Sense of touch
__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the world.
Visibility
Affordance
Mapping
___________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at doing what it is
supposed to do.
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Utility
________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday activities?
Cognition
Learnability
Memorability
_____ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw conclusions or infer something
new about the domain of interest.
Decision Making
Reasoning
Problem Solving
________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a product in different,
more useful ways than _______research do.
Qualitative, Quantitative
Quantitative, Qualitative
None of them
_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Utility
_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects in the real world to
match the knowledge requirements of users.
User Interaction Models
Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors
________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often Ungrammatical.
Written, spoken
Spoken, written
None of the given choices
Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.
Strategic
Tactical
None of the given choices
Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and software applications
on a single place. Which of the following will help in this regard?
MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper
Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two different modes of
activity one is _________ and other is ___________.
Analytic mode, synthetic mode
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode
Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the ____________ phase
and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)
Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling
___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.
Pull Down Menus
Main Menus
Icons
Buttons
When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person is saying. It is
called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention
Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of _________
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention
GOMS stands for
Goals operation methods and selection rules
Goals objects models and selection rules
Goals operations methods and state rules
Goals operations models and state rules
________ represent the user’s expectations of the tangible outcomes of using a specific product.
 Non-user goals
End goals
Experience goals
Life goals
________ are perhaps the least-documented patterns, but they are nonetheless in widespread use.
Postural
Structural
Behavioral
Mnemonic
 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
CS 408 Midterm papers Solved by Ali Muaaz

_____________are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious

deliberation.
► Slips, mistakes P/100
► Errors, slips
► Mistakes, errors
► Mistakes, slips

What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human
problem solving?
► It operates within the constraints of the human processing system P/91
► It explains what is involved in insight
► It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
► None of these

___________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from
the range of possibilities available.
► Perception and recognition
► Attention P/76
► Learning
► None of these

Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-

apprentice model of learning.
► True
► False P/176
Contextual inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice
model of learning:

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona
► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative
_________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several
problems that currently plague the development of digital products.
1. Scenario
2. Persona P/187__ Lecture-22
3. Prototype

The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
1. Gulf of Execution P/103__ Lecture -12
2. Gulf of Evaluation
3. None of these

Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from
the range of
1. Possibilities available P/76
2. Time Available
3. None of these

The goals of HCI are :

1. Usability and User Experience
2. Learn ability and Comfort
3. Tasks and Goals.

WYSIWYG stands for ____________.

 Where you see is where you get
 What you see is what you get P/36, Lecture-4
 When you see it when you get

____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

Pitch
Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
Timber

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

 True
 False P/189, Lecture_22

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected
by the user to invoke specific operations.
► Buttons P/133
► Pointers
► Menus
► Windows

User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.
► Served
► Negative
► Customer
► Supplemental P/188

Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what
we wanted to happen?
 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
► Action
► Evaluation P/99
► Execution
► None of these

The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

► Physical P/106
► Logical
► Cultural
► None of these
_____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich,
multivariate detail
► Quantitative
► Qualitative P/166
► SME
► None of these

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:

It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not a secondary color?

Select correct option:
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
Select correct option:
a typical keyboard
a typical monitor
a typical speaker
a typical processor

Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

Select correct option:
Listening P/87_- Lecture -10
 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
Speaking
Hearing
None of the given

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

Select correct option:
A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light P/60, Lecture-7
Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system
state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can
be considered as general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which
of the following are also high level usability categories that can guide standards and
guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency (iii) Fault tolerance (iv)
Satisfaction
Select correct option:
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)

Which of the following is not true?

 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
Select correct option:
Utility refers to the functionality of a system
Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system P/30__ Lecture-4
Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

The command line interface is used because

Select correct option:
It is easy to understand
It is demanded by DOS
It is offered by Unix systems
It is powerful and flexible (Google)

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

Select correct option:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior

and the mental processes that underlie it?
Select correct option:
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Computer Science

HCI deals with

Select correct option:
Design of interactive system only
Evaluation of interactive system only
Implementation of interactive system only
All of the given choices
 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
Human beings interact with outside world, using their
Select correct option:
input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given P/54

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their
Select correct option:
Sense of sight
Sense of hearing
Both sense of touch and sense of hearing
Sense of touch

_____________is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from the range of possibilities available
Reasoning
Decision Making
Attention P/76, Lecture-9

__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the
world. Visibility
Affordance
Mapping P/107, Lecture- 12

. _________________ plays a role to bridge up the gap between the interfaces of

machines and human understanding.
Human computer Interaction P/14
Software Engineering
Human Computer Interfaces

___________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at
doing what it is suppose to do.
Effectiveness P/31
Efficiency
Utility
 Solved By Ali Muaaz
[email protected]
. _________________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday
activities.
Cognition P/47
Learnability
Memeorability

_______________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw

conclusions or infer something new about the domain of interest.
Decision Making
Reasoning P/89
Problem Solving

________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a

product in different, more useful ways than _______research do.
Qualitative, Quantitative P/167
Quantitative, Qualitative
None of them

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local
gurus. This statement concerns with ____________.
► Paper work and computer work
► Spatial and temporal organizations
► Organizational memory
► None of these

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________ constraint.

► Physical
► Logical
► Cultural (Google)
► None of these
____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people
to know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance P/105
► Constraint
► None of these
____________ minimizes errors.
► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these
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Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?
► Pitch
► Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
► Timber
► None of these

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines
and human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction P/14
► None of these

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.
► Primary P/159
► Secondary
► Supplement
► Negative

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of

the various modes.
► Button
► Pointer
► Palette P/133
► Title bar
The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona
► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through

______________.
► Modeling, analysis P/159
► Analysis, modeling
► Testing, modeling
► Testing, Analysis
.
Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be
completed before the next step can be started
► Incremental
► Linear P/149
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► Iterative
► Analytical

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design
► Evaluate the design
► Generate and evaluate the design (Google)
► None of the given

What is a semantic network?

► A model of long-term memory P/82
► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?
► Sight and hearing
► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch

_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
Efficiency P/31
Effectiveness
Utility
_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical objects
in the real world to match the knowledge requirements of users.
User Interaction Models
Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors P/51

________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language is often

Ungrammatical.
Written, spoken P/87
Spoken, written
None of the given choices

Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.
Strategic
Tactical P/143
None of the given choices

Strategic aspect guides us to think about user interface idioms – in other words, the way
in which the user and the idiom interact. Tactical aspects give us hints and tips about
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The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

Deborah Mayhew P/153
Websterfg
Barry Boehm
Hartson

Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and
software applications on a single place. Which of the following will help in this
regard?
MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper

Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two
different modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________ .
Analytic mode, synthetic mode P/153
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode

Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the
____________ phase and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)
Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling

Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides
clear, simple navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in
this case?
Auxiliary
Transient
Information
Sovereign

___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.
Pull Down Menus
Main Menus
Icons
Buttons
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When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person
is saying. It is called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention P/78
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of

_________ .
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention P/78

GOMS stands for

Goals operation methods and selection rules P/50
Goals objects models and selection rules `
Goals operations methods and state rules
Goals operations models and state rules

Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given P/59

Hue
Hue is determined by the spectral wavelength of the light. Blues have short wavelength,
greens medium and reds long. Approximately 150 different hues can be discriminated by
the average person.
Intensity
Intensity is the brightness of the color.
Saturation
Saturation is the amount of whiteness in the colors.

________ represent the user’s expectations of the tangible outcomes of

using a specific product.
Non-user goals
End goals P/192
Experience goals
Life goals

FINALTERM EXAMINATION
Spring 2010
CS408- Human Computer Interaction (Session - 4)
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CS408 Question No: 1

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.
► True
► False
CS408 Question No: 2
In an email application configuring a new email server is a key path activity.
► True
► False

CS408 Question No: 3

_____________ are perhaps the least-documented patterns, but they are nonetheless in
widespread use.
► Postural
► Structural
► Behavioral
► Mnemonic

CS408 Question No: 4

The way people carry out an activity in the real world is same as how it may be observed
in the laboratory
► True
► False
CS408 Question No: 5
Engineering a user interface involves a quantitative engineering style of working in
which measurements are used to judge the quality of interface. Hence ____________ is
appropriate.
► Usability testing
► Field study
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework

CS408 Question No: 6

Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative
new groupware product would help them to be more engaged would probably be better
informed by a ______________.
► Usability testing
► Field study
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework
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CS408 Question No: 7
Beneath the surface is the _____________ of the site: the placement of buttons, tabs,
photos, and blocks of text.
► Surface
► Structure
► Skeleton
► Scope

CS408 Question No: 8

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color
blindness.
► 10
► 20
► 30
► 40

CS408 Question No: 9

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the
user to invoke specific operations.
► Buttons
► Pointers
► Menus
► Windows
CS408 Question No: 10
The __________ function came into being as the result of the implementation model for
undo
► Redo
► Undo
► Repeat
► Delete
CS408 Question No: 11
If the user wants to _________ place the document somewhere in the file system
hierarchy, he can request this function from the menu.
► Explicitly
► Implicitly
► Habitually
► Properly
CS408 Question No: 12
Design of user interfaces does not entirely ___________ aesthetic concerns, but rather it
places such' concerns within the constraints of a _____________ framework.
► Include, Functional
► Exclude, Functional
► Include, Non-Functional
► Exclude, Non-Functional
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CS408 Question No: 13
When developing ____________, plan to keep them short, straightforward and avoid
asking too many.
► Videos
► Documentation
► Interview CS408 Questions
► Contextual enquiry
CS408 Question No: 14
Conventional wisdom says that ________ tell the user when he has made some mistake.
► Program crash
► System stuck
► Error messages
► Metadata
CS408 Question No: 15
People frequently counter the idea of ________feedback with arguments that users don't
like it
► Audible
► Video
► Walkthroughs
► CS408 Questions
CS408 Question No: 16
___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.
► Non-attentive
► Visual
► Sensing
► Attentive
CS408 Question No: 17
User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.
► Served
► Negative
► Customer
► Supplemental

CS408 Question No: 18

Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we
wanted to happen?
► Action
► Evaluation
► Execution
► None of these

CS408 Question No: 19

The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.
► Physical
► Logical
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► Cultural
► None of these

CS408 Question No: 20

_____________ research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich,
multivariate detail.
► Quantitative
► Qualitative
► SME
► None of these

CS408 Question No: 21

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult
and tiring to write and observe at the same time.
► Audio recording.
► Taking notes.
► Observation
► Video

CS408 Question No: 22

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________
► Functional and data elements
► View
► Input method
► None of the given

CS408 Question No: 23

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use with
the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.

► Co-discovery
► Active intervention
► Splendid research
► None of the given

CS408 Question No: 24

Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract ____________
users more than a monthly-updated site.
► Repeat
► Infrequent
► Nonuser
► None of the given
CS408 Question No: 25
Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet users’ needs are
known as _____________ evaluation.
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► Formative
► Summative
► Relative
► None of the given

CS408 Question No: 26

____________ frequent your primary personas access the site, _____________ transient
a stance the site needs to take (respectively).
► More, Less
► Less, more
► Less, less
► None of the given

CS408 Question No: 27 ( M a r k s: 2 )

Give two examples of “Avoidance” with respect to Attitude-oriented CS408
Questions. [2

CS408 Question No: 28 ( M a r k s: 2 )

Write any two common ways to Improve Navigation? [2]

CS408 Question No: 29 ( M a r k s: 2 )

What are Controlled Vocabularies? [2]

CS408 Question No: 30 ( M a r k s: 2 )

List down any four principles that can help make your visual interface as easy and
pleasurable to use as possible.

CS408 Question No: 31 ( M a r k s: 3 )

Explain “Participants Represent Real Users” in context of usability testing.

CS408 Question No: 32 ( M a r k s: 3 )

By breaking down Skeleton plane into its component elements then how all the
pieces fit together to create this as a whole user experience? [3

CS408 Question No: 33 ( M a r k s: 3 )

When is it useful to observe in context to observation process? [3]

CS408 Question No: 34 ( M a r k s: 5 )

Discuss the model problems of multiple undo.

CS408 Question No: 35 ( M a r k s: 5 )

How can we improve data retrieval through “storage and retrieval Systems”?

CS408 Question No: 36 ( M a r k s: 5 )

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Does it is necessary for evaluation team to have the expertise needed to do the
evaluation? Justify your answer with example.

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Fall 2008
CS408- Human Computer Interaction (Session - 2)
Time: 60 min
M a r k s: 38

Question No: 1 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus.
This statement concerns with ____________.

► Paper work and computer work

► Spatial and temporal organizations

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► Organizational memory

► None of these

Question No: 2 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the
______________ interface style, often simply called windowing systems.

► Three-dimensional

► WIMP

► Point and click

► None of these

Question No: 3 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________constraint.

► Physical
► Logical
► Cultural
► None of these

Question No: 4 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to
know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance
► Constraint
► None of these

Question No: 5 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

____________ minimizes errors.
► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these

Question No: 6 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?

► Pitch
► Loudness
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► Timber
► None of these

Question No: 7 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and
human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction
► None of these

Question No: 8 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.

► Primary

► Secondary

► Supplement

► Negative

Question No: 9 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the
various modes.

► Button

► Pointer

► Palette

► Title bar

Question No: 10 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use
refers to _______ persona

► Primary

► Secondary

► Served
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► Negative

Question No: 11 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through
______________.

► Modeling, analysis

► Analysis, modeling

► Testing, modeling

► Testing, Analysis

Question No: 12 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

► Deborah Mayhew
► Webster
► Barry Boehm.

► Hartson.

Question No: 13 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed
before the next step can be started

► Incremental

► Linear

► Iterative

► Analytical

Question No: 14 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design

► Evaluate the design

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► Generate and evaluate the design

► None of the given

Question No: 15 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

What is a semantic network?
► A model of long-term memory
► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 16 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?

► Sight and hearing

► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch

Question No: 17 ( M a r k s: 1 )
Define Attention. [1]

Question No: 18 ( M a r k s: 1 )
Define Recognition. [1]

Question No: 19 ( M a r k s: 2 )
What is the difference between Tertiary and Analogous colors? [2]

Question No: 20 ( M a r k s: 3 )
Comment to justify the following statement.

“Most users are neither beginners nor experts; instead they are intermediates”

Question No: 21 ( M a r k s: 5 )
What are the pointing devices? Explain trackball as pointing device? [2+3]
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Question No: 22 ( M a r k s: 10 )
Consider the vertical scroll bar of a web browser or word processor. For each of
Norman’s five principles below, give one way that the scroll bar uses the principle
for effective design. Describe the interface model of the scroll bar in one sentence.
[2*5]

· Affordance:
· Constraints:
· Mapping:
· Visibility:
· Feedback:

Question No: 1 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local gurus.
This statement concerns with ____________.

► Paper work and computer work

► Spatial and temporal organizations

► Organizational memory

► None of these

Question No: 2 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Currently many common environments for interactive computing are examples of the
______________ interface style, often simply called windowing systems.

► Three-dimensional

► WIMP

► Point and click

► None of these

Question No: 3 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________constraint.

► Physical
► Logical
► Cultural
► None of these
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Question No: 4 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net
____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to
know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance
► Constraint
► None of these

Question No: 5 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

____________ minimizes errors.
► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these

Question No: 6 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?

► Pitch
► Loudness
► Timber
► None of these

Question No: 7 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and
human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction
► None of these

Question No: 8 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.

► Primary

► Secondary

► Supplement

► Negative
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Question No: 9 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net
A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the
various modes.

► Button

► Pointer

► Palette

► Title bar

Question No: 10 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and its use
refers to _______ persona

► Primary

► Secondary

► Served

► Negative

Question No: 11 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through
______________.

► Modeling, analysis

► Analysis, modeling

► Testing, modeling

► Testing, Analysis

Question No: 12 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

► Deborah Mayhew
► Webster
► Barry Boehm.
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► Hartson.

Question No: 13 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be completed
before the next step can be started

► Incremental

► Linear

► Iterative

► Analytical

Question No: 14 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design

► Evaluate the design

► Generate and evaluate the design

► None of the given

Question No: 15 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

What is a semantic network?
► A model of long-term memory
► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 16 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?

► Sight and hearing

► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch
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Question No: 17 ( M a r k s: 1 )
Define Attention. [1]

Question No: 18 ( M a r k s: 1 )
Define Recognition. [1]

Question No: 19 ( M a r k s: 2 )
What is the difference between Tertiary and Analogous colors? [2]

Question No: 20 ( M a r k s: 3 )
Comment to justify the following statement.

“Most users are neither beginners nor experts; instead they are intermediates”

Question No: 21 ( M a r k s: 5 )
What are the pointing devices? Explain trackball as pointing device? [2+3]

Question No: 22 ( M a r k s: 10 )
Consider the vertical scroll bar of a web browser or word processor. For each of
Norman’s five principles below, give one way that the scrollbar uses the principle
for effective design. Describe the interface model of the scroll bar in one sentence.
[2*5]

· Affordance:
· Constraints:
· Mapping:
· Visibility:
· Feedback:

Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people to
know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance
► Constraint
► None of these
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Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What is a semantic network?
► A model of long-term memory
► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.
► Physical constraints
► Logical constraints
► Cultural constraints
► None of these

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A mouse button invites pushing by the way it is physically constrained in its plastic shell,
is an
example of ___________ Design Principle.
► Visibility.
► Affordance
► Mapping
► None of these

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 2 )

What are Design Edge Cases?

Question No: 18 ( Marks: 2 )

What are the Pointing Devices?

Question No: 19 ( Marks: 3 )

Define following in relation to Ethnographic Interviews.
 Early Phase
 Mid Phase

Question No: 20 ( Marks: 3 )

Define following in context of resizing button given at the right bottom corner of any
Windows:-
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 Natural Mapping
 Feedback

Question No: 22 ( Marks: 5 ) (Lucky enough to get additional 2 marks due to

repetition :P)
What are the pointing devices? Explain Touch Pad as pointing device? [2+3]

Question No: 23 ( Marks: 5 )

Explain following:-
 Supplemental Persona.
 Customer Persona.
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Question No: 1 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

In an organization individuals may keep their own records,
or there may be local gurus. This statement concerns with
____________.

► Paper work and computer work

► Spatial and temporal organizations

► Organizational memory Handouts page: 176

► None of these

Question No: 2 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Currently many common environments for interactive
computing are examples of the ______________ interface
style, often simply called windowing systems.

► Three-dimensional

► WIMP Handouts page: 129

► Point and click

► None of these

Question No: 3 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type
of _______constraint.

► Physical
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► Logical
► Cultural Handouts page: 106
► None of these

Question No: 4 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an
object that allows people to know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance Handouts page: 105
► Constraint
► None of these

Question No: 5 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

____________ minimizes errors.
► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these

Question No: 6 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of
the sound; the frequency remains constant?

► Pitch
► Loudness Handouts page: 70
► Timber
► None of these

Question No: 7 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the
interfaces of machines and human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction
Handouts page: 14
► None of these
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Question No: 8 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net
The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a
distinct interface form and behavior is _____________ type
of Persona.

► Primary Handouts page: 159

► Secondary

► Supplement

► Negative

Question No: 9 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

A _________is usually a collection of icons those are
reminiscent of the purpose of the various modes.

► Button

► Pointer

► Palette Handouts page: 133

► Title bar

Question No: 10 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is
indirectly affected by it and its use refers to _______
persona

► Primary

► Secondary

► Served Handouts page: 159

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► Negative

Question No: 11 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow
patterns discovered through ______________.
► Modeling, analysis Handouts page: 159

► Analysis, modeling

► Testing, modeling

► Testing, Analysis

Question No: 12 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by
_________.

► Deborah Mayhew Handouts page: 153

► Webster
► Barry Boehm.

► Hartson.

Question No: 13 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which
each step must be completed before the next step can be
started

► Incremental

► Linear Handouts page: 149

► Iterative
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► Analytical

Question No: 14 ( M a r k s: 1 ) http://vuzs.net

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design

► Evaluate the design

► Generate and evaluate the design

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► None of the given

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What is a semantic network?
► A model of long-term memory Handouts
page: 82
► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember
things
► A mechanism for improving memory

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Which are the most significant senses for the average
person when it comes to interacting with a computer?

► Sight and hearing

► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch
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Solve the subjective question with ur own
mind and vision.

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Define Attention. [1]

Question No: 18 ( M a r k s: 1 )
Define Recognition. [1]

Question No: 19 ( M a r k s: 2 )
What is the difference between Tertiary and
Analogous colors? [2]

Question No: 20 ( M a r k s: 3 )
Comment to justify the following statement.

“Most users are neither beginners nor experts;

instead they are intermediates”

Question No: 21 ( M a r k s: 5 )
What are the pointing devices? Explain trackball as
pointing device? [2+3]

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Consider the vertical scroll bar of a web browser or
word processor. For each of Norman’s five principles
below, give one way that the scrollbar uses the
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model of the scroll bar in one sentence.
[2*5]

· Affordance:
· Constraints:
· Mapping:
· Visibility:
· Feedback:
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_____________ is like the building name for a website.

► Site ID P/287
► Navigation
► Section
► None of the given

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use

with the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.
► Co-discovery
► Active intervention P/276
► Splendid research
► None of the given

__________ is the extra work that satisfies the needs to achieve our objective.
► Evaluation
► Excise P/245
► Testing
► None of the given

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________

► Functional and data elements P/206, Lect#24
► View
► Input method
► None of the given

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult
and tiring to write and observe at the same time.
► Audio recording
► Taking notes P/365, Lecture # 40
► Observation
► Video

Every page within a site should contain a brief _________ that accurately describes
the content of the page.
► Site ID.
► Header
► Local Navigation
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______________ applications are great platforms for creating an environment rich,

in visual feedback for the user.
► Sovereign P/222
► Transient
► Auxiliary
► Daemonic

What is the fifth step in defining the requirements with respect to persona-based
design?
► Brainstorming.
► Identifying persona expectations
► Constructing the context scenario
► Identifying needs P/200

You can load a VCR tape the right way because of _____________.
► Physical constraints (Google)
► Logical constraints
► Cultural constraints
► None of these

____________ are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious

deliberation.
► Slips, mistakes P/100
► Errors, slips
► Mistakes, errors
► Mistakes, slips

What is the main strength of the Problem Space Framework as a model of human
problem solving?
► It operates within the constraints of the human processing system P/91
► It explains what is involved in insight
► It allows ill-defined problems to be solved
► None of these

___________ is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from the range of possibilities available.
► Perception and recognition
► Attention P/76
► Learning
► None of these

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894 6743″ because
► Numbers are easier to remember than arbitrary characters.
► The grouping of the numbers is significant
► Ten numbers is not that many to have to remember from working memory.
► None of these

___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.

► Attentive P/418
► Non-attentive
► Visual
► Sensing

___________ involves watching and listening to users.

► Observation P/361
► Evaluation
► Qualitative research
► Interaction

The name of the document should be shown on the application’s__________.

A. Menu bar
B. Title bar
C. Title bar and menu bar
D. Not Title bar and not menu bar
► Only B P/326
► Only D
► A and B
► A and D

The established standard suite of _________ for most applications consists of the Save
As dialog, the Save Changes dialog, and the Open File dialog.
► OS management
► File management P/325
► Data management
► Application management

_________ is the remarkable facility that lets us reverse a previous action.

► Redo
► Undo P/310
► Repeat
► Delete

Explanatory undo is, generally, a much more pleasant feature than ___________.
► Single Undo
► Multiple undo
► Blind undo P/312
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 ► Incremental Undo

Browser Title always contains the word ‘_______’.

► Home P/300
► Default
► Error
► Browser

Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-

apprentice model of learning.
► True
► False P/176

Contextual inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master-apprentice model

of learning:

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color
blindness.
► 10 P/358__ Lecture- 39
► 20
► 30
► 40

The _____________ is a concrete expression of the more abstract structure of the

site.
► Skeleton P/306
► Scope
► Strategy
► Structure

____________ are the street signs of the web.

► Site IDs
► Home pages
► Page Names P/391
► Sections

______________ is not like other pages; it has different burdens to bear, different
promises to keep.
► Homepage P/287
► Form
► Navigation bar
► Sections

The ___________ suggests identifying goals and questions first before selecting
techniques for the study
► RVM model

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 ► DECIDE framework P/367
► Usability testing
► Field study

Number of keystrokes is ____________ work.

► Logical
► Mnemonic
► Physical P/212 __ Lecture-25
► Structural

Recalling password is ____________ work.

► Logical
► Mnemonic P/212 __ Lecture-25
► Physical
► Structural

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona
► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative

_________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several

problems that currently plague the development of digital products.
1. Scenario
2. Persona P/187__ Lecture-22
3. Prototype

The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

1. Gulf of Execution P/103__ Lecture -12
2. Gulf of Evaluation
3. None of these

Attention is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time, from
the range of
1. Possibilities available P/76
2. Time Available
3. None of these

The goals of HCI are :

1. Usability and User Experience
2. Learn ability and Comfort
3. Tasks and Goals.

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While there can be wide variations in where and how you conduct a usability test,
every usability test shares:
1. Three Characteristics
2. Five Characteristics P/270
3. Seven Characteristics

WYSIWYG stands for ____________.

? Where you see is where you get
? What you see is what you get P/36, Lecture-4
? When you see it when you get

____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

 Pitch
 Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
 Timber

Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

? True
? False P/189, Lecture_22

__________ is the extra work that satisfies the needs to achieve our objective.
Evaluation
Excise P/245
Testing

In an email application configuring a new email server is a key path activity.

► True
► False

_____________ are perhaps the least-documented patterns, but they are

nonetheless in widespread use.
► Postural
► Structural P/217
► Behavioral
► Mnemonic

The way people carry out an activity in the real world is same as how it may be
observed in the laboratory
► True
► False P/256

Hence the way people carry out an activity (e.g., preparing a report) in

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Engineering a user interface involves a quantitative engineering style of working in

which measurements are used to judge the quality of interface. Hence ____________
is appropriate.
► Usability testing P/264
► Field study
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework

Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new

groupware product would help them to be more engaged would probably be better
informed by a ______________.
► Usability testing
► Field study P/264
► Predictive evaluation
► DECIDE framework

Beneath the surface is the _____________ of the site: the placement of buttons, tabs,
photos, and blocks of text.
► Surface
► Structure
► Skeleton P/306, Lecture_35
► Scope

Roughly _____________ percent of the male population has some degree of color
blindness.
► 10 P/358__ Lecture- 39
► 20
► 30
► 40

__________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected
by the user to invoke specific operations.
► Buttons P/133
► Pointers
► Menus
► Windows

The __________ function came into being as the result of the implementation model for
undo
► Redo P/314
► Undo
► Repeat
► Delete

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If the user wants to _________ place the document somewhere in the file system
hierarchy, he can request this function from the menu.
► Explicitly P/327
► Implicitly
► Habitually
► Properly

Design of user interfaces does not entirely ___________ aesthetic concerns, but
rather it places such’ concerns within the constraints of a _____________
framework
► Include, Functional
► Exclude, Functional P/343, Lecture-38
► Include, Non-Functional
► Exclude, Non-Functional

When developing ____________, plan to keep them short, straightforward and

avoid asking too many.
► Videos
► Documentation
► Interview questions P/371
► Contextual enquiry

Conventional wisdom says that ________ tell the user when he has made some
mistake.
► Program crash
► System stuck
► Error messages P/382
► Metadata

People frequently counter the idea of ________feedback with arguments that users
don’t like it
► Audible P/393
► Video
► Walkthroughs
► Questions

___________environments are environments that are user and context aware.

► Non-attentive
► Visual
► Sensing
► Attentive P/418

User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas.
► Served
► Negative

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 ► Customer
► Supplemental P/188

Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we
wanted to happen?
► Action
► Evaluation P/99
► Execution
► None of these

The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

► Physical P/106
► Logical
► Cultural
► None of these

_____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich,
multivariate detail
► Quantitative
► Qualitative P/166
► SME
► None of these

_____________is the least technical way of collecting data, but it can be difficult
and tiring to write and observe at the same time.
► Audio recording.
► Taking notes. P/365
► Observation
► Video

Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________

► Functional and data elements P/206
► View
► Input method
► None of the given

____________ is particularly useful early in design. It is excellent technique to use

with the prototype, because it provides a wealth of diagnostic information.
► Co-discovery
► Active intervention P/276
► Splendid research
► None of the given

Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract

____________ users more than a monthly-updated site.
► Repeat P/229

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 ► Infrequent
► Nonuser
► None of the given

Evaluations done during design to check that product continues to meet users’
needs are known as _____________ evaluation.
► Formative P/258
► Summative
► Relative
► None of the given

____________ frequent your primary personas access the site, _____________

transient a stance the site needs to take (respectively).
► More, Less
► Less, more P/232
► Less, less
► None of the given

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not a secondary color?

Select correct option:
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
Select correct option:
a typical keyboard
a typical monitor
a typical speaker
a typical processor

Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?

Select correct option:
Listening P/87_- Lecture -10

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Speaking
Hearing
None of the given

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Which of the following is not true regarding “cones”?

Select correct option:
A type of receptor in eye more sensitive to light P/60, Lecture-7
Different types of cones are sensitive to different wavelengths of light
Eye has approximately 6 million cones

Which of the following does not count as one of the advantages of computers?
Select correct option:
Computers are enabling new discoveries
Leading to efficiencies
Making our life convenient
Depending so much on computers may give fatal results

The gulf of execution refers to _______________ .

Select correct option:
The user’s difficulty in understanding the feedback from the system
The system’s difficulty in presenting information in the output language
The system’s difficulty in converting an input expression into the correct system
state transition
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system

Learnability, flexibility and robustness are three main usability principles that can
be considered as general headings for standards and guidelines generation. Which
of the following are also high level usability categories that can guide standards and
guidelines generation? (i) Effectiveness (ii) Efficiency (iii) Fault tolerance (iv)
Satisfaction
Select correct option:
(i) & (ii)
(i), (ii) & (iv)
(ii) & (iii)
(ii) & (iv)

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Which of the following is not true?
Select correct option:
Utility refers to the functionality of a system
Usability is concerned with adding complexity to the system P/30__ Lecture-4
Usability is concerned with making systems easy to use
Poorly designed computer system can be extremely annoying to users

The command line interface is used because

Select correct option:
It is easy to understand
It is demanded by DOS
It is offered by Unix systems
It is powerful and flexible (Google)

Which of the given statements correctly defines effectiveness in terms of one of the
usability goals?
Select correct option:
It is a very general goal and refers to how good a system at doing what it is suppose
to do. P/31__ Lecture-4
It refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out their tasks.
It involves protecting the users from dangerous conditions
It involves protecting the users from undesired situations

Which of the following is not one of the primary colors?

Select correct option:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green P/63_- Lecture-8

Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior

and the mental processes that underlie it?
Select correct option:
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics
Computer Science

HCI deals with

Select correct option:
Design of interactive system only
Evaluation of interactive system only
Implementation of interactive system only
All of the given choices

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Human beings interact with outside world, using their
Select correct option:
input channels
output channels
sense of sight
All of the given P/54

We are deficient in our development _________, not in our development __________

(respectively).
Select correct option:
Process, Tools P/23, Lecture-3
Tools, Process
Tools, Methodology
None of these

Visually impaired persons can interact with outside world using their
Select correct option:
Sense of sight
Sense of hearing
Both sense of touch and sense of hearing
Sense of touch

_____________is the process of selecting things to concentrate on, at a point in time,

from the range of possibilities available

Reasoning
Decision Making
Attention P/76, Lecture-9

__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the
world.
Visibility
Affordance
Mapping P/107, Lecture- 12

. _________________ plays a role to bridge up the gap between the interfaces of

machines and human understanding.
Human computer Interaction P/14

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Software Engineering
Human Computer Interfaces

___________ is a very general goal of Usability and refers to how good a system at
doing what it is suppose to do.
Effectiveness P/31
Efficiency
Utility

. _________________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday
activities.
Cognition P/47
Learnability
Memeorability

_______________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw

conclusions or infer something new about the domain of interest.
Decision Making
Reasoning P/89
Problem Solving

________research helps us understand the domain, context and constraints of a

product in different, more useful ways than _______research do.
Qualitative, Quantitative P/167
Quantitative, Qualitative
None of them

In an organization individuals may keep their own records, or there may be local
gurus. This statement concerns with ____________.

► Paper work and computer work

► Spatial and temporal organizations
► Organizational memory
► None of these

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Using icons on the desktop to represent operations is a type of ________ constraint.
► Physical
► Logical
► Cultural (Google)
► None of these

____________ is a term used to refer to an attribute of an object that allows people

to know how to use it.
► Visibility
► Affordance P/105
► Constraint
► None of these

____________ minimizes errors.

► Affordance
► Visibility
► Constraints
► None of these

Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound; the frequency
remains constant?
► Pitch
► Loudness P/70, Lecture-8
► Timber
► None of these

__________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines
and human understanding.
► Human
► Computer
► Human Computer Interaction P/14
► None of these

The persona’s needs are sufficiently unique to require a distinct interface form and
behavior is _____________ type of Persona.

► Primary P/159
► Secondary
► Supplement
► Negative

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A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of
the various modes.

► Button
► Pointer
► Palette P/133
► Title bar

The persona is not an actual user of the product, but is indirectly affected by it and
its use refers to _______ persona

► Primary
► Secondary
► Served P/159
► Negative

During _____________ phase, usage and workflow patterns discovered through

______________.

► Modeling, analysis P/159

► Analysis, modeling
► Testing, modeling
► Testing, Analysis
.

Waterfall model is basically a _________ model in which each step must be

completed before the next step can be started

► Incremental
► Linear P/149
► Iterative
► Analytical

Models are used in design to

► Generate the design

► Evaluate the design
► Generate and evaluate the design (Google)
► None of the given

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 What is a semantic network?

► A model of long-term memory P/82

► A record of our memory of events
► The part of the brain which allows us to remember things
► A mechanism for improving memory

Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to
interacting with a computer?
► Sight and hearing
► Hearing, touch and smell
► Hearing and touch
► Sight, hearing and touch

_________ refers to the way a system supports users in carrying out

their tasks.

Efficiency P/31
Effectiveness
Utility

_____________ are GUIs that consists of electronic counterparts to physical

objects in the real world to match the knowledge requirements of users.

User Interaction Models

Conceptual Models
Interface Metaphors P/51

________language tends to be grammatical while _________ language

is often Ungrammatical.

Written, spoken P/87

Spoken, written
None of the given choices

Aspect gives us hints and tips about using and creating user interface idioms.

Strategic
Tactical P/143
None of the given choices

Strategic aspect guides us to think about user interface idioms – in other words, the way
in which the user and the idiom interact. Tactical aspects give us hints and tips about
using and creating user interface idioms, like dialog boxes and pushbuttons.

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The Usability Engineering lifecycle was proposed by _________.

Deborah Mayhew P/153

Websterfg
Barry Boehm
Hartson

XYZ Ltd is well reputed software house; they make a significant investment in
building ------------------- that encourages greater customer loyalty.

Visual Symbols
Grouping
Brand Equity P/353
Harmony

Ali wants to develop an application that incorporates print, audio video media and
software applications on a single place. Which of the following will help in this
regard?
MS World
Worldwide Web
Television Newspaper

Ali is looking at how interface designers went about their work. He identified two
different modes of activity: one is _________ and other is ___________ .
Analytic mode, synthetic mode P/153
Evaluation mode, testing mode
Analyze mode, feedback mode
Implementation mode, task mode

Scenario content and context are derived from information gathered during the
____________ phase and analyzed during the ______________ phase (respectively)

Modeling, Implementation
Modeling, Research
Research, Implementation
Research, Modeling

Ali requires access via a navigational portal relatively infrequently that provides clear,
simple navigational control. Which of the following posture is appropriate in this case?
Auxiliary
Transient
Information

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Sovereign

___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.
Pull Down Menus
Main Menus
Icons
Buttons

When you engaged in a conversation you are more attentive what the other person
is saying. It is called?
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention P/78
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention

Drive a vehicle while holding a conversation with a passenger is the example of

_________ .
Focused Attention
Voluntary Attention
Involuntary attention
Divided Attention P/78

GOMS stands for

Goals operation methods and selection rules P/50

Goals objects models and selection rules
Goals operations methods and state rules
Goals operations models and state rules

Which of the following is/are the main component(s) of color?

Hue
Intensity
Saturation
All of the given P/59

Hue
Hue is determined by the spectral wavelength of the light. Blues have short wavelength,
greens medium and reds long. Approximately 150 different hues can be discriminated by
the average person.
Intensity
Intensity is the brightness of the color.

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Saturation
Saturation is the amount of whiteness in the colors.

________ represent the user’s expectations of the tangible outcomes of

using a specific product.
Non-user goals
End goals P/192
Experience goals
Life goals

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