Get premium membership and access revision papers, questions with answers as well as video lessons.
Human Computer Interaction Question Paper
Human Computer Interaction
Course:Computer Engineering
Institution: Nairobi Institute Of Business Studies question papers
Exam Year:2015
Question 1
a) Explain whats meant by the term 'ergonomics' (4marks)
b) Critically evaluate the importance of navigational design in user interfaces. (6 marks)
c) Explain and give examples of THREE areas where the limitations of human short term memory may affect HCI design (6 marks)
d) Identify the role played by the understanding of human mental models in interface design. (4 marks)
QUESTION 2
A) Critically evaluate TWO important ergonomic considerations in the design of user interface (4 marks)
b) shneiderman's eight golden rules of dialogue designs are:
i) State of consistency.
ii)enable frequent users to use shortcuts
iii)offer informative feedback
iv)design dialogue to yield closure
v)offer simple error handling vi)permit easy reversal of action
vii)support internal locus of control.
viii)reduce short -term memory load.
Explain what each role means and give examples from interfaces with which you are familiar of how any FOUR these rules have been applied. (16 marks)
QUESTION 3
A school runs two version of the same wordprocessing package on its network. Both versions allow users to type in text, but version A accepts only keyed command whereas with version B the user may use a mouse as well as the keyboard.
a)describe how the use of a mouse can be helpful during Word processing operations. Give a range of examples to justify your answer.(10 marks)
b)at some point in the future it seems likely that computers will be able to receive input in spoken form. Discuss, with examples, how this development could affect the design and use of word processing packages(10 marks)
QUESTION 4
a)Define multimodal interactions (2 marks)
b)Analyze the opportunities, risks and challenges involved in developing a multimodal application (8 marks)
c)Analyze FIVE techniques that can be used to ensure that people abled differently are able to interact with a computer effectively.(10 marks)
QUESTION 5
a)Differentiate using examples the difference between low-fidelity prototype and high-fidelity prototype explaining the main importance of the prototypes in system design (12 marks)
b)describe THREE prototyping tools used in design of an interface (8 marks)
More Question Papers
Popular Exams
Return to Question Papers