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What is an important advantage of command-line interfaces over graphical user interfaces?
They work well for repetitive jobs like payroll processing or billing.
Why should modal dialog boxes be used with care?
They are very disruptive and prevent users from continuing their task.
Under which circumstances is the use of CAPITAL LETTERS appropriate in screen layout and design?
To better distinguish text from the numbers when text and numbers are mixed.
Although humans often rely on spoken natural language to communicate with each other, spoken language is not used very heavily in human-computer interfaces. What is an important reason for that?
Computers would have to understand many different languages and dialects.
Why have menus become a practically indispensable part of current user interfaces?
They provide quick access to frequently used commands (recognition over recall).
Which of the following fields is not an influence on HCI?
All of the above are an influence on HCI
In ___________ several keys must be pressed at once in order to enter a single character.
Chord keyboards
On my personal computer, I am listening a song with head phone. At same time, I am entering data in MS word It means my system is:
Multi-model
There is usually a _________ attached to the top of a window identifying it to the user.
Title bar
Input in human is mainly though the ____________ and output through the ________ of the effectors.
Senses, Motor Control
There are various types of errors. Norman has categorized them into two main types.
Mistakes, Slips
Which of the following is proportional to the amplitude of the sound where the frequency remains constant?
Loudness
The eye is a mechanism for receiving light and transforming it into __________ energy.
Electrical
WYSIWYG stands for ____________.
What you see is what you get
Which of the following is haptic perception?
Touch
_____________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to invoke specific operations.
Buttons
The human eye has approximately _________rods and __________cones per eye.
120 million , 6 million
What are the three types of reasoning?
Abdicative, Inductive and Deductive
Which of the following is not true regarding "cones"?
More sensitive to light
Which interface system is based on the question / answer dialogue?
Query interfaces
Choice of operations and services are offered on the screen through __________
Menus
What will be the gulf of execution if the user is able to formulate and perform the actions easily;
Smaller
Form-filling interfaces are used for
Data entry
Which of the following is used to toggle between two states?
Radio buttons
Which of the following is a text entry device?
Keyboard
Mistakes" and "Slips" are two forms of
Errors
_________ model is famous for risk analysis.
Spiral
Building things from user's perspective is called
Usability
Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems
Direct manipulation
Which of the following is a long-term individual difference?
Sex
___________refers to how good a system at doing What it is supposed to do?
Effectiveness
What is a semantic network?
A model of long-term memory
The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:
Gulf of Execution
The goals of HCI are:
Usability and User Experience
Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen?
Evaluation
________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich, multivariate detail.
Qualitative
_________ Cognitive process involves encoding and recalling knowledge and acting appropriately
Memory
HCI deals with _______________________.
All of the given choices
___________ are dragged down from the title at the top of the screen.
Pull Down Menus
Human eye is very sensitive to ______
Light
Top of the web page contain the _________
Title bar
____________ are unintentional while _____________ occur through conscious deliberation (respectively).
Slips, mistakes
Over a short period of time, we find it easier to remember the string of numbers "404 894 6743" because:
The grouping of the numbers is significant
Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?
Listening
The command line interface is used because:
It is powerful and flexible
Which of the following is concerned primarily with understanding human behavior and the mental processes that underlie it?
Psychology
________ plays a role to bridge up the gape between the interfaces of machines and human understanding.
Human Computer Interaction
A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various modes.
Palette
The Star lifecycle was proposed by ______________.
Hartson
What do you enjoy most about your job (or lifestyle) is an example of _________.
Motivation
________ represents the Early-phase of ethnographic interviews.
Focused on domain knowledge
Which of the following device can not be useful for a visually impaired person?
a typical monitor
The gulf of execution refers to __________.
The user’s difficulty in formulating and articulating an intention to the system
Human beings interact with outside world, using their
All of the given
__________ refers to the relationship between controls and their effects in the world.
Mapping
_________is what goes on in out heads when we carry out our everyday activities?
Cognition
___________ is the process by which we use the knowledge we have to draw conclusions or infer something new about the domain of interest.
Reasoning
Models are used in design to:
Generate and evaluate the design
Which are the most significant senses for the average person when it comes to interacting with a computer?
Sight, hearing and touch
Ethnography is a method that comes originally from anthropology and literally means
Writing the culture
The process of forming general concept definitions from examples of concepts to be learned.
Induction
The name of the document should be shown on the application’s ……………...
Title bar
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