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HCI. Meeting 18 Tues, November 2 Election Day. Research Project. Proposed Exam Questions. While the idea behind turning on a light switch has pretty much been the same since the beginning, how do we account for all the different light switches in use today?

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  1. HCI Meeting 18 Tues, November 2 Election Day

  2. Research Project

  3. Proposed Exam Questions • While the idea behind turning on a light switch has pretty much been the same since the beginning, how do we account for all the different light switches in use today? • What are some of the benefits of minimizing the number of modes within a system?

  4. Questions (2) • How does Raskin’s Zoomworld concept provide such approachable metaphor? • What are the most important features in designing a user interface? What makes design X better than design Y? Give examples. • Explain the GOMS model and describe a simple task in reference to it.

  5. Questions (3) • In what terms can we measure the effectiveness of an interface and the user’s reactions with it? • Discuss some design principles that were not followed by the designers of Netscape webmail. Be clear and show how you would have designed them instead.

  6. Questions (4) • Give the specifications for a perfectly designed button. Connect your specifications to design principles and GUEPs. Note any assumptions you make about the context of the button. • Describe “locus of attention” and discuss its importance in human computer interaction

  7. Questions (5) • Synthesize Raskin’s ideas about ease of learning a system and display your result as a concept map. • How should a designer accommodate for habituation? • Describe the state space of a widget.

  8. Evaluation • What to measure • How to measure it

  9. Next Time • Next Tuesday, November 9: Final Exam, Part 1.

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