Deck 4: Usability Evaluation and Testing

Question 1

Which professional groups are most appropriately involved in preparation and performance of the classic kind of cognitive walkthrough?

A)end users and designers
B)designers and usability experts
C)usability experts and marketing personnel
D)designers and marketing personnel.

Answer 1

designers and usability experts

Question 2

The analogy of the user in HCI is used as

A)requirements design system
B)system design
C)information processing system
D)system output

Answer 2

information processing system

Question 3

Pressing the mouse button in the ____________object allows you to drag the document within the window boundaries.

A)button
B)text
C)label
D)header

Answer 3

text

Question 4

The term "physical reception" of stimulus actually describes the

A)infinite capabilities of human
B)skills of human vision
C)unlimited human vision
D)limitation of human vision

Question 5

Rolf Molich's Comparative Usability Evaluation (CUE) studies:

A)show there is a large amount of overlap between findings from different teams.
B)show many teams found more problems than they chose to report.
C)use the common industry format (cif) for usability reports.
D)show that usability testing finds all known problems.

Question 6

Regarding the measurement of usability attributes:

A)reliability is measured by performing common use cases
B) sample expert users are needed to measure efficiency.
C)learnability is determined by measuring the time it takes to explain an interface to a new user.
D)none of these

Question 7

Which of these are usability inspection methods?

A)action analysis
B)heuristic evaluation
C)cognitive walkthrough
D)all of the above.

Question 8

Exploratory Evaluation:

A)explores the potential design space for new designs.
B)involves collecting process data.
C)a special kind of goal.
D)is a usability inspection method.

Question 9

What are the pros (advantages) of a heuristic evaluation?

A)all known problems are found
B)3 evaluators find 80% of all known problems
C)usable early in development
D)costly

Question 10

In general, a pilot test is intended to:

A)discover gear-up accidents with aircraft landing gear.
B)discover unrealistic time estimates for tasks.
C)discover effective equipment.
D)determine an alternative set of tasks for testing

Question 11

: ____________ capture the non-verbal dialogue between artifact and user over time.

A)persona
B)scenario
C)dialogue
D)design model

Question 12

Explanatory undo is, generally, a much more pleasant feature than             .

A)single undo
B)multiple undo
C)blind undo
D)incremental undo

Question 13

Browser Title always contains the word ' ____________'.

A)home
B)default
C)error
D)browser

Question 14

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

A)program crash
B)system stuck
C)error messages
D)metadata

Question 15

How do you identify the user in the usability engineering lifecycle?

A)draw up a user profile
B)run a thinking aloud test
C)assume the role of an apprentice learning from the master craftsman
D)observe representative users

Question 16

In a heuristic evaluation ……………………

A)a group of usability expert judges an interface with a detailed checklist of guidelines
B)a group of test users conducts a formal experiment
C)a group of psychologists administers a questionnaire
D)a group of usability experts reviews a user interface according to a small set of general principles

Question 17

& are the main functions of GUI.

A)pointing & selecting
B)selecting & executing
C)pointing & editing
D)none of these

Question 18

Conventional wisdom says that____________tell the user when he has made some mistake.

A)program crash
B)system stuck
C)error messages
D)metadata

Question 19

What are valid kinds of working prototype, along the dimensions of features and funtionality?
:

A)vertical prototype
B)scenario prototype
C)horizontal prototype
D)all of the above.

Question 20

The test materials for a usability test should include:

A)oriental script
B)data connection form
C)debriefing topic guide
D)personality questionnaire

Question 21

The human perception in reading process is the part of

A)saccades
B)fixations
C)regressions
D)suppression

Question 22

The simple model of human interaction was proposed in

A)1990
B)1989
C)1983
D)1988

Question 23

The characteristic of a software that enable it to be used multiple times is called

A)reusable
B)useful
C)usable
D)used

Question 24

The ratio of brightness of the color is defined as

A)contrast
B)saturation
C)intensity
D)hue

Question 25

What is the most important property that a prototype should have?

A)it should support a wide range of user tests.
B)it should look like the final product.
C)it should allow the key design concepts to be tested with users.
D)it should be easy to throw away.