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1. Software ergonomics for multimedia user interfaces.
ISO 9241
ISO 14915
ISO/CD 20282
ISO 13407
2. Card, Moran and Newell [56] described the Model Human Processor in
1988
1983
1992
1990
3. Which of the following statement or statements are true about Choosing the Words for text messages: Statement 1: Abbreviations, acronyms and Jargon can be used Statement 2: Short and familiar words can be used
Only Statement 1
Only Statement 2
Both the Statements
Both are False
4. Users conceptual space is control and constrained by programs in _____ .
Graphical user interface
Web interface
Command line
Direct manipulation
5. Which one of the following characteristics do not represent direct manipulation-
The system should portray as an extension of real world
Continuous visibility of objects
System should use text only
Actions should be rapid and incremental
6. ______ is the construction process on what is happening/building in the software/ program.
Navigation
Design
Users
Slips, mistakes
7. In a heuristic evaluation ___________________
A group of usability expert judges an interface with a detailed checklist ofguidelines
A group of test users conducts a formal experiment
A group of psychologists administers a questionnaire
A group of usability experts reviews a user interface according to a small setof general principles
8. Learnability in case of principle to support usabbility is
the ease with which new users can begin effective interaction and achieve maximal performance
the ease with which old users can begin effective interaction and achieve maximal performance
the ease with which new users can begin effective interaction and achieve minimal performance
the ease with which old users can begin effective interaction and achieve minimal performance
9. Which is not a technique of visual emphasis
Blinking
Colors
Bolding, Italics, and Underlining
Polarity
10. “Good Design is just cool graphics”.
True
False
May be
Cannot Say
11. What is the primary interactive method of communication used by humans?
reading
writing
Generate and evaluate the design
watching
12. ___ enables maintenance of a better sense of context ,restricted navigation paths, multiple windows.
Graphical user interface
Web interface
Command line
Direct manipulation
13. A test where participants are asked to retrieve in any order stimuli previously presented is
cued recall
implicit memory
explicit memory
free recall
14. The horizontal and vertical height of a screen in pixels is called
Mega pixel
Screen display
Screen resolution
Screen orientation
15. They need to be executed on top of something else
Platforms
os
MOBILE WEB WIDGETS
website
16. Which one of the followig is standard scaling practice
Tick mark
Logarithmatic Scale
Cross Mark
Nonlinear scale
17. _____________ to the goals and objectives of a specific job or function.
Induction relates
Abductive reasoning relates
Deduction relates
Situation awareness relates
18. What are the advantages of direct manipulation?
visually presents task concepts, easy to learn, encourages exploration
visually presents task concepts
easy to learn
encourages exploration
19. _______________________is that, describes the creation of a new goal to enable an operator to apply it.
Difference Reduction
Backup avoidance
Means-end analysis
Abduction
20. Which of the following control can not used as Mutually Exclusive control
Drop down
Check box
List
Radio Button
21. if screen searching is performed to locate information of a particular kind or quality,_____
color code the types of status that the information may possess
use color to provide visual groupings
color code these kinds or qualities for contrast
color code the different parts to focus selective attention on each in turn
22. User personas that are not primary or secondary are _________ personas
Supplemental
Served
Negative
Customer
23. Panes, frames and other containers on screen is a kind of _____________
View
Indicator
Input
Functional and data elements
24. As a person work with a system, he or she then develops a__________of the system
Mental model
Conceptual model
System model
Oprerational model
25. The window that appears on a screen when an activity is started , is called :
Simple Window
Primary Window
Operational Window
Linked Window
26. Which of the following is not a guideline for good form fill-in design?
Group and sequence of fields logically
Make sure that required fields are clearly marked
Allow users to enter any value in a field
Give immediate feedback about errors
27. Which of the following is not a presentation style of Window
Cascading Windows
Overlapping Windows
Tiled Windows
Primary Window
28. Identify from among the following the attribute of usability.
Learnability
Usefulness
Generalizability
Subjective satisfaction
29. Browser and pages are presentation elements in-
Web interface
GUI
Printed pages
Digital systems
30. Research has found that _____and more accurately than text and that the graphical attributes of icons.
symbols can be recognised faster
faster learning
faster use and problem solving
more natural
31. Internal consistency of organizing elements does not include
Reflect a person’s experiences
Operational and navigational procedures
Visual identity or theme
the organization of components should be same
32. Which of the following is not a part of Interaction styles
Command line interface
Natural language
Bookmarks
Menus
33. __________is selection based control
Tool tip
Text box
Radio Button
Command Button
34. Which of the following is not a example of Native Mobile app
Twitter
LinkdIn
Gmail
Google Maps
35. Which application allows the registered users to communicate through voice using a microphone, video call using a webcam, and instant messaging over the internet?
Skype
Calendar
Amazon
CNN
36. What is/are the main component/ components of User Interface?
Graphical language
Action language
Hardware
Presentation language
37. What the user interacts with is a collection of elements referred to as _______.
Object
Pointer
Action
User interface
38. Which is a disadvantage of Direct manipulation
Consumes screen space
Requires icon recognition
May slow knowledgeable users
Difficult to implement
39. They are the navigation controller/ commander of the user interface.
CEOs
Users
Planners
Navigation
40. Which one of the following is not the recommended value for gray scale?
White
Dark and Black gray
Red
Light and medium gray
41. Which of the following is flaw in waterfall model?
requirements change overtime
maintenance can not be possible at the end
testing should be done before requirements gathering
requirements not changing with time
42. What Is Frequency of use in common information ordering scheme
use grouping involves arranging information items in the order in which they are commonly received or transmitted
use is a design technique based on the principle that information items used most frequently
is based on the information’s importance to the user’s task or need.
Information items are grouped according to their purpose or by some common parameter.
43. Which of the following is not a basic categorie of the Smith and Mosier guidelines for design:
User Guidance
Data Entry
Data Transmission
Robustness
44. Ergonomics can be also called as……
The development of design
The study of the physical characteristics of the interaction
Window design system
Hardware environment
45. Heat supplied to the cathode by directing a current through a coil of wire is called What is not part of importance of mobile application?
Massive chance to grow E-business
Easily meets the targeted customers
Get official interaction with customers
Paid advertisements for your job
46. Which of the following is not the part of rules of the ‘Page Title’.
Should possesses meaningful keywords
Should be in multicolor
Whose first word is its most important descriptor.
That is different from other page titles
47. Overlapping windows are best suitable for
Single task activities
Switching between tasks
Novice users
Display contents are predictable
48. ______ is used to make use of application efficiently and get satisfaction out of it
Predictability
Readability
Usability
learnability
49. By using capitalized words, the reading speed and accuracy
decreases
increases
has no effect
speed increases and accuracy decreases
50. Exploring how children talk together in order to see if an innovative new groupware product would help them to be more engaged would probably be better informed by a ______________.
Usability testing
Field study
Predictive evaluation
DECIDE framework
51. The second era, the ______ (1988–1998), represented one of the more significant leaps in mobile technology.
Candy Bar Era
Brick Era
Feature Phone Era
Smartphone Era
52. A device such as mouse or trackball that enables the user to select objects on the display screen is known as ____ .
Pointing device
Windows
icons
Pointer
53. what is the use of task oriented help?
to describe the procedural steps for carrying out a task
to provide contextual information about any screen object
to display the name of a control when the coontrol has no text label
to present reference oriented/ user guide oriented information
54. Basic interaction is a single click which can cause extreme changes in context which may not be noticed in _____.
Graphical user interface
Web interface
Command line
Direct manipulation
55. --------------------- are an exception to Components of a Statistical Graphic.
Pie Charts
Bar Graphs
Line Graphs
Histograms
56. Certain factors that help us to interact with graphical based systems is________ .
Indirect manipulation
File Handlers
Indirect design
Direct design
57. What is the approach that is taken in ergonomics to studying human factors in the workplace?
Cognitive, affective and behavioural approaches
The bio-psycho-social approach
The training needs analysis approach
The selection and assessment approach
58. The type of radio and antenna determines the capability of the ............ and the services you can enable on it.
Operating system
operator
Application framework
Network
59. Which of the following is odd one in terms of an example of application
Games
Web Browser
Camera
Palm
60. Tiled windows are best suitable for
Single task activities
Switching between tasks
Experienced users
Tasks requiring lot of window manipulation
61. The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system oriented terms.
Aesthetics and minimalist design
Visibility of system status
Match between system and the real world
Help and documentation
62. Body movement tracking is
Recognizing emotions visually
Command and action scenario
organized
Eyes movement tracking
63. Intersection based on windows , icons , menus and pointers is called the ____
WICP
WIMP
WIMD
WIWD
64. In the Mobile Ecosystem: Mobility,1, Roaming 2, Quality 3, Integration 4. The correct order is ...[1]
2341
1234
2314
4321
65. A bar code reader is an example of_________
Processing device
input device
output device
storage device
66. Simplicity means ____
Optimize the number of elements on screen, within limits of clarity
Minimize the number of elements on screen, within limits of clarity
Maximize the number of elements on screen, within limits of clarity
Optimize the size of the elements within limits of similarity
67. Beginner user should be provided with:
Keyboard Accelerator
Short Cut
Command Line Interface
Wizard and Help
68. Proprietary platforms include :
LiMo
BREW
BlackBerry
Android
69. The skin uses which of these receptors for haptic interaction
Thermoreceptors
Nociceptors
Mechanoreceptors
Audireceptors
70. If the display elements are organised and presented in meaningful and understandable ways , this property is known as ___.
Separation
Visual clarity
Distribution
Classification
71. Information sites with daily-updated information will naturally attract ____________ users more than a monthly-updated site.
Repeat
Infrequent
Nonuser
Less
72. ____________ interfaces are powerful in that they offer direct access to system functionality
Command line
WIMP
Menus
point and click
73. Which of the following Characteristics does Scatterplots have ?
Use of two or more-dimensional displays of data
Maintain inconsistent scale size intervals
Provide variable-sized plot points
Visually distinguish points of particular significance through a highlighting technique
74. LMN want to add a bulletin board to an ecommerce website to increase the number of visitors, which of the following analysis will help?
Qualitative
Evaluative
Quantitative
Scientific
75. Widgets and Games are the types of mobile _________.
Applications
Navigations
Screen Elements
Functions
76. Which one of these is a good reason for taking care to design a good computer human interface?
Not every user is a computer expert
Well designed UIs allow the software to be sold at a better price
Well designed UIs allow the software to be sold at a better price
Well designed UIs allow the computer to run faster
77. Which of the following requires less cognitive effort than others?
Listening
Speaking
Hearing
Writing
78. A successful direct-manipulation interface must present _____________.
A complex series of user choices.
An appropriate representation or model of reality.
The option for users to enter a long string of commands.
Mixed metaphors so that users don’t become bored
79. A _________is usually a collection of icons those are reminiscent of the purpose of the various
Button
Pointer
Palette
Title bar
80. The size of a chunk of information a person can hold in short-term memory depends on _________.
Their familiarity with the material (knowledge and experience).
Their long-term memory
Their natural cognitive abilities
Their age and gender
81. What does the aesthetic-usability effect refer to?
People tend to perceive usable products as more attractive.
People tend to perceive attractive products as more usable.
Usability and aesthetics are equally important in web design.
The perception of attractiveness and usability of a new site are evaluated in the first 50ms when a user first sees the site.
82. This kind of message is usually identified by an “I” icon to the left of the message.
Informational messages
System messages
Status messages
Warning messages
83. A mouse device is________
mechanical
electrical
Both Mechanical and Optical
Wireless
84. Generalizing from cases we have seen to infer information about cases we have not seen is known as
General Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Abductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
85. Number of keystrokes is _________ work
Logical
Mnemonic
Physical
Structural
86. The word “psychology’ comes from:
Latin
Spanish
Greek
Italian
87. ___graphics work best with elements like three dimentional effects and more complex typography
Navigational
organizational
decorative
Realistic
88. ______ memory is to hearing as ________ memory is to seeing.
echoic, eidetic
eidetic, echoic,
working, short-term
short-term, working
89. Which of the following is sutable method of interaction with system for the hearing impairment
Gesture
SonicFinder
Speech synthesis
Predictive systems
90. Regularity in visual pleasing composition refers to-
Stabilization or equilibrium, a midway center of suspension
Axial duplication
Uniformity of elements based on some principle or plan.
Suggetion of highly conventional order or plan
91. Screen design describes the design of ___________________
Graphical user interface
model Interface
two layer Interface
three layers Interface
92. What is not True about Bar Graphs ?
Can be used to show a few differences between seperate entities
Can be used to show differences in a Variable at a few discrete intervals
Cannot be arrayed vertically
Provide a consistent ordering for related groups of bars
93. Engineering a user interface involves a quantitative engineering style of working in which measurements are used to judge the quality of interface. Hence ________is appropriate
Usability testing
Field study
Predictive evaluation
DECIDE framework
94. Which of the following is not a characteristic of web user interface?
Navigation through links, bookmarks, URL
User hardware variation is enormous
Quite variable response time
Has to be installed, configured, personalized by the user
95. Users conceptual space is infinite and generally an organised in ________ .
Graphical user interface
Web interface
Command line
Direct manipulation
96. __________ is a better way to convey functions
Pictures
Text
Color
Alert boxes
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