FINALTERM EXAMINATION
Spring 2010
CS408- Human Computer Interaction (Session - 4)
Time: 90 min
M a r k s: 58
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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
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
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
► 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.
► 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 )
Does it is necessary for evaluation team to have the expertise needed to do the evaluation? Justify your answer with example.
