Deck 3: Design Heuristics, Evaluation, and User Interaction

Question 1

Which of the following does not belong to 9 heuristics?

A)provide clearly marked exits
B)easy to use
C)minimize user memory load
D)speak user language

Answer 1

easy to use

Question 2

in a heuristic evaluation:

A)a group of psychologists administer a questionnaire
B)interface according to a small set of principles
C)a group of test users conduct a formal experiment
D)a group of usability experts judge an interface with a detailed checklist of guidelines

Answer 2

interface according to a small set of principles

Question 3

Concerning the legibility of text:

A) if lines are too long, the text is hard to read
B)all upper case improves reading speed.
C)a good font size for flowing text is 10 pt.
D)all upper case improves reading speed

Answer 3

if lines are too long, the text is hard to read

Question 4

What is the best description of a conceptual model?

A)a high level description of how a system is organised and how it operates
B)interaction paradigms and interaction modes
C)the problem space faced by the designer when gathering user requirements

Question 5

Which is the best example of triangulation in data gathering?

A)collecting information about designer\s model, user\s mental model, and system image.
B)sing different theories with which to interpret data.
C)using multiple researchers in a user-centred evaluation.
D)collecting data from users in different ways with different methods.

Question 6

Which of the following is a problem with low-level prototyping?

A)testers tend to comment on superficial aspects and not content.
B)they take too long to build.
C)user expectations can be set too high.
D)none of the above.

Question 7

The sensitivity of cones to blue light results into

A)lower red acuity
B)lower red acuity.
C)higher blue acuity.
D)lower blue acuity

Question 8

What is an affinity diagram?

A)a diagram showing the degree of connection between people in social networks
B)a diagram used to show people\s cultural affinities or sense of belonging to groups.
C)a diagram that organises individual ideas and insights into a hierarchy showing themes
D)a variant of a tag cloud that is generated from think- aloud protocols.

Question 9

Where would a card-based prototype best fit in the design process?

A)after conceptual design, before scenario design
B)after scenario design, before storyboarding.
C)after storyboarding, before low- level prototyping.
D)after low-level prototyping, before high-level prototyping.

Question 10

The following are examples of placing "knowledge in the world":

A)showing an example of the required date format.
B)using previously entered values as defaults.
C)using shape coding for aircraft controls
D)all of the above.

Question 11

Regarding user interface components:

A)vertically scrolling lists support single- item scrolling
B)a single row of tabs (property sheets) is a good user interface design.
C) on the macintosh, the trash can was used to eject a diskette.
D)all of the above.

Question 12

A task of developing a technical blueprint and specifications for a solution that fulfills the business requirements is undertaken in the following phase of the system development process

A)system initiation
B)system implementation
C)system analysis
D)system design

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a category of entities?

A)concept
B)place
C)object
D)relationship

Question 14

You are running a user test session and your participant wants to leave half way through the session. What do you do?

A)ask them to stay until the end as planned, so you can collect your data.
B)after ensuring they do not need medical help, let them leave, with your thanks.
C)offer them an incentive payment to encourage them to finish the
D)none of the above.

Question 15

The limits on the human ability to seen is set by the

A)loss of suppression
B)loss of oppression
C)loss of discrimination
D)loss of calibration

Question 16

The user input in human computer interaction is occurred through

A)motor controls
B)experience
C)senses
D)education

Question 17

What is the best description of a conceptual model?

A)a high level description of how a system is organised and how it operates
B)interaction paradigms and interaction modes
C)the problem space faced by the designer when gathering user requirements
D)none of the above.

Question 18

The reading speed and accuracy is increased by reading familiar words based on

A)word shape
B)word color
C)word as single letter
D)word as character by character

Question 19

The small region of retina where optic nerve enters the eye is called

A)fovea
B)blind spot
C)ligament
D)lens

Question 20

The user's vocal system is categorically used as

A)input control
B)processing control
C)memorization control
D)motor control

Question 21

The ear of a human is further categorized into

A)two sections
B)three sections
C)four sections
D)five sections

Question 22

The light sensitive part of an eye in human vision system is

A)lens
B)cornea
C)retina
D)rods

Question 23

What interaction paradigm did the Xerox Star use?

A)conversation
B)knowledge of a physical desktop
C)embedded computing
D)windows, icons, mouse, and pointer (wimp).

Question 24

Select the best way of analysing qualitative user comments collected during a user tset

A)classify the comments into categories and count number of comments in each category
B)find the average and the standard deviation of the data and report it in the body of the report
C)use a scatterplot to graph users on the x axis and comments on the y axis.
D)look for critical incidents to report.

Question 25

What are web analytics?

A)online methods for performing usability tests through the cloud.
B)web-based methods for performing analysis of video records and electronic logs of user interaction
C)web-based methods for performing statistical analysis of data, using tools such as spss
D)online methods for analysing and visualising patterns of visiting a website, viewing