Chapter 14

Question 1

What is domain

Answer 1

The area of work under study e.g. graphic design

Question 2

What is goal

Answer 2

What you want to achieve

Question 3

What is task

Answer 3

How you go about doing it e.g. select fill tool, click on triangle

Question 4

What is donald norman’s model

Answer 4

It consist of 2 things

1. Gulf of execution
2. Gulf of evaluation

Question 5

What is abowd and beale framework

Answer 5

Their interaction framework has 4 parts

• user
• input
• system
• output

Question 6

System and user has their own unique languages, What are they

Answer 6

user = task
system = core

Question 7

What is ergonomics

Answer 7

Ergonomics (also known as human factors engineering), is the science of refining the design of products to optimize them for human use.

Question 8

What are different type of interfaces

Answer 8

• Office
• industrial
• glass

Question 9

what are 2 types of manipulation of system

Answer 9

• Direct manipulation (e.g. working on computer)

- Indirect manipulation (e.g. working on industry computer that controls some machine)

Question 10

What are different interaction styles/dialogue

Answer 10

• Command line interfaces (e.g. DOS, telnet)
• Menu based systems
• Natural Language (e.g. speech recognition system)
• Query interfaces (e.g. wizards, query languages)
• Form-fills (e.g. fill form, spreadsheets)
• WIMP interface (Windows icons menus pointers) (e.g. GUI)
• Point and click interfaces (e.g. browser)
• 3 Dimensional interfaces (e.g. virtual reality)