CS408 Midterm Past Papers by Junaid

Q1. _____________are unintentional while_____________ occur through conscious deliberation.

Slips, mistakes (page 100)

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

Q2. 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

Q3. Perception and recognition

Learning

Q4. Interpretation inquiry, according to Beyer and Holtzblatt, is based on a master- apprentice model of learning.

True

Q5. 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

Q6. _________ is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that currently plague the development of digital products. Scenario

Persona (page 187)

Prototype

Q7. The difference between the intentions and allowable actions is the:

Gulf of Execution (page 103)

Gulf of Evaluation

Q8. 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

Q9. The goals of HCI are:

Usability and User Experience (page 30)

Learn ability and Comfort Tasks and Goals

Q10. 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

Q11. ____________ is proportional to the amplitude of the sound.

Pitch

Loudness (page 70)

Timber

Q12. Persona is not context specific, so it can be reused easily.

True

Q13. __________ are individual and isolated regions within display that can be selected by the user to invoke specific operations.

Buttons (page 133)

Pointers Menus Windows

Q14. User personas that are not primary or secondary are ____________ personas. Served

Negative Customer

Supplemental (page 196)

Q15. Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen?

Action

Evaluation (page 99)

Execution

Q16. The size and shape of a compact disk, is a type of _____________ constraint.

Physical (page 106)

Logical Cultural

Q17. _____________ Research can tell you about what, how, many and why in rich, multivariate detail.

Quantitative

Qualitative (page 166)

SME