hci Flashcards
(57 cards)
1
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State the universal design principles.
(hint: 7)
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- accessible
- flexible
- simple and intuitive
- effective communication
- error tolerance
- low physical effort
- size, space for approach and use
2
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State Shneiderman and Plaisant’s (2010) eight golden rules.
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- consistency
- shortcuts
- feedback
- yield closure (confidence completeness)
- prevent errors
- easy reverse
- interface control
- minimise cognitive strain
3
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What is the first wave?
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- engineering roots
- problem solving
- “technical paradigm”
4
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What is the second wave?
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- cognitive reduction
- information processing
- “cognitive paradigm”
5
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What is the third wave?
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- ubicomp tech
- social change
- “ethnographic paradigm”
6
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What could the fourth wave be?
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- values, ethics and politics
- avoiding centrality of technological notions of interactive designs
7
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What are the interface differences?
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- gesture
- haptic (vibrations)
- multimodal
- shareable
- shape-changing
- tangible (sensors)
8
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What are frameworks?
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Provides advice for designing UX. Interrelated concepts/specific questions.
9
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Name the HCI conceptualised types.
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- paradigm
- vision
- model
- framework
- theory
10
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What is a paradigm?
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The inspiration for a conceptual model. A generalised approach to carry out research.
11
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What is a vision?
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Imagines life in the future. Used as a driving force for research and development.
12
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What is a theory?
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An explanation for a phenomenon. Can be used to predict what users will do with new interfaces.
13
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What is a model?
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Used for predictions. A simplification of a HCI phenomenon.
14
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name the five types of evaluations for collaborative techniques.
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- field work
- interviews
- questionnaires
- observations
- log studies
15
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What are the eight design considerations for interactive collaborative interfaces?
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- conformity vs individuality pressures
- privacy and protection
- sources of friction between participants?
- protection from hostile, aggressive or malicious behaviour?
- expected and tolerable network delays?
- how will high-level management participate?
- any status rise or fall?
- evaluation of success?
16
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What is the time/space groupware matrix?
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________________|same time | different time
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
same place |face-to-face|continuous
++++++++++++|+++++++++++++++++++++
different place |remote |coordination
(sync) (async)
17
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What is CSCW?
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- Computer supported cooperative work
- a field of study
- studies how people can work more effectively together
18
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What are some features of CSCW design?
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- supports users needs
- accommodates disruptions from co-workers
- deals with privacy
- establishes responsibility
- can be used be a large group of users
19
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What is ubicomp?
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- Ubiquitous computing
- connecting computers into the everyday by shrinking and embedding
- part of the third wave of computing
- e.g. smart devices
20
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What are the five areas of usability?
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- learnability
- efficiency
- memorability
- errors
- satisfaction
21
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What are the additional seven ubicomp usability areas?
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- conciseness
- expressiveness
- ease
- transparency
- discoverability
- programmability
- invisibility
22
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What is UCAMP?
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- to do with wearables
- U: user
- C: corporal
- A: attention
- M: manipulation
- P: power
23
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What are some design issues for intelligent interactive systems?
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- error corrections and detections
- agency
- transparency
24
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What is the markov assumption?
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The probability of a word only depends on a finite set of previous words.
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What is the sub-word language model?
Captures valid sequences and assigns them probabilities.
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What is the equation for self-information?
I(m) = -log2(p(m))
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What is self-information of a message m in bits?
- Self-information ( I(m) ) quantifies how surprising a message ( m ) is, based on its probability ( p(m) ).
- Rare events have high self-information (low probability).
- Frequent events have low self-information (high probability).
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What are the seven interactions by intention?
1. select
2. explore
3. reconfigure
4. encode
5. zoom/elaborate
6. filter
7. connect
29
What is the mantra said in visualisation?
1. overview first
2. zoom and filter
3. THEN details on demand
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What is the expressiveness principle?
- visual encoding should express all the info in the dataset attributes
- ordered data should look ordered and categorical data should not look ordered
- ensures visualisation is accurate and truthful to the data
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What is the effectiveness principle?
- the importance of the data attribute should be encoded with the most effective visual variable in order to be noticeable
- ensures visualisation is clear and easy to interpret for the audience
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What is iid?
- independent and identically distributed
- each variable in a sequence is distributed according to the same probability distribution and all vars mutually independent
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What do we use for model validation?
- R^2
- the coefficient of determination
- 1 - (SSerror/SStotal)
- closer to 1, the better the model
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What is Occam's Razor?
Among several competing models, the simplest model that can explain the phenomenon should be preferred.
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What are models?
- used to make predictions
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What is overfitting?
Overfitting occurs when a model learns too much from the training data, capturing noise and specific details rather than general patterns. As a result, it performs well on training data but poorly on unseen data.
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What are some assumptions for Fitts' Law?
1. closed-loop interaction
2. will only model biologically possible intervals
3. a and b (the regression coefficients) vary depending on the task
4. pointing devices can be compared using their throughput
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What is throughput?
- TP = IDavg/MTavg
- the above is dependent on an arbitrary ID
- TP = 1/b
- the above ignores a though
- number of bits of information a user can communicate per second independent of a specific target
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What is ID?
- index of difficulty
- ID = log2((D+W)/W)
- measure of difficulty hitting a target of a certain diameter from a certain distance
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What is Fitts' Law?
- linear regression model
- predicts that the avg Movement Time (MT) to hit a target (1D) is proportional to the distance and width of the target
- MT = a + bID
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What are the five experimental design steps?
1. setup
2. participants
3. apparatus
4. material
5. procedure
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What is counter balancing?
presenting conditions to each group in a different order
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What is asymmetrical skill transfer?
presenting condition A before condition B helps the performance of B more than presenting condition B before A helps the performance of A.
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What is between-subject design? List some advs and disadvs.
- each participant exposed to one condition
- adv:
1. no skill transfer
2. no need to counter balance
- dis:
1. variance not controlled
2. each participant is a source of error
3. quickly becomes expensive
4. typically demands more participants
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What is within-subject design?
- each participant exposed to all conditions
- adv:
1. variance controlled
2. requires fewer participants
- dis:
1. usually needs counter balancing
2. more care needed in the design
3. risk of asymmetrical design transfer
46
What is the external and internal validity trade off?
- more internal validity, less external validity
- interval: to what extent is bias minimised
- external: to what extent can the results be generalised to other situations and people
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What are some threats to validity?
1. reproducibility
2. study heterogeneity
3. internal validity
4. external validity
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What are the five interaction types?
1. instructing
2. conversing
3. manipulating
4. exploring
5. responding
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What is the research cycle for interaction techniques?
1. identify the problem
2. identify the relevant design principles
3. propose a solution
4. evaluate said solution
5. extract design implications
6. use said design implications as new design principles
7. repeat the cycle
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What are six issues to consider when creating new interaction techniques?
1. learning curve
2. walk-up use (can it be used right away)
3. robustness and error handling
4. intrusiveness
5. social acceptability
6. context of use
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What are the three main
assumptions that must be true about the data for ANOVA to be a valid test?
1. independence
2. normality
3. homogeneity
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What are Nielsen's 10 heuristics?
1: Visibility of System Status
2: Match Between the System and the Real World
3: User Control and Freedom
4: Consistency and Standards
5: Error Prevention
6: Recognition Rather than Recall
7: Flexibility and Efficiency of Use
8: Aesthetic and Minimalist Design
9: Help Users Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors
10: Help and Documentation
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What is Participatory design?
Direct involvement of people in the collaborative design of the things and technologies they use.
Pros:
* More user involvements bring more accurate information about tasks
* Gives end-users an opportunity to influence design decisions
Cons:
* Extensive user involvement is lengthy and thus costly
* May generate antagonism from end-users not involved in the participatory design, or from end-users whose suggestions are rejected
* May force designers to compromise their designs to satisfy incompetent end-users who are participating in the design process
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What are GOMS?
a predictive method that can be used to evaluate a user interface design before any users have actually used the system
* Goals : Aims of the user
* Operators: Actions that can be done in the interface, such as clicking, dragging and typing
* Methods: Sequences of sub-goals and operators that can be used to achieve a particular goal
* Selection rules: The rules by which a user chooses a particular method (from a set of methods) to achieve a goal
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What are Cognitive models?
model users’ higher level
cognitive functions and aim to predict user performance of arbitrary user interfaces
Two primary types of cognitive models in HCI:
* Predictive models that predict user performance by modelling interaction as a series of steps,
with time estimates for each step
* Simulations that simulate actual human behaviour when interacting with a user interface
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What is a KLM GOMS?
Keystroke level GOMS
* A subset of GOMS that only includes operators and methods
* KLM predicts task completion times
* All operators have a specific execution time
* Task completion times are calculated by summing up the execution times for the
different operators that need to be used to perform the task
Limitations:
* Assumes error-free expert behaviour
* Assumes reliable fixed time estimates are available for all operators
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Explain the Sign Test
* We have n paired observations: (X1,Y1), (X2,Y2),...,(Xn,Yn)
* We compute the median values for {Xi} and {Yi}
* The null hypothesis is that the median difference is zero
* We now compute the differences between the pairs: (Y1-X1),(Y2-X2),...,(Yn-Xn)
* Differences that are zero are ignored, we may thus end up with fewer observations
than n
* We call this adjusted number n'
* Compute the number of differences that fall below zero, we will call this number r^-
* Compute the number of differences that fall above zero, we will call this number r^+
* Now we take the minimum of r^+ and r^- : r = min(r^+,r^-)
* The null hypotheses states that the population median of the pair-wise differences is zero
* Under this null hypothesis we would expect ½ of the pair-wise differences to be above zero (r^+) and half of them to be below zero (r^-)
* Therefore, under the null hypothesis, r^+ and r^- follow a binomial distribution ) B(n,p) with p = 0.5 and n = n'
* We now use the binomial distribution to find the probability of observing a value r or lower given p = 0.5 and n = n'
* We have now obtained a probability of how likely our observations model the null hypothesis (no difference between the population medians)
* This probability is our p-value
* If this p-value is less than our preset significance level (for example, 0.05), then we reject the null hypothesis because there is less than (assuming a significance level of 0.05) 5% chance that our observations of differences in
the medians would occur if the population medians are identical
