HCI EXAM
Human Computer Interaction
Level 1 EXAM
Date: Monday, 25th of November
Time: 9:30am
DURATION: 3hrs to complete: AS92006 (HCI)
ROOM: (TBA)
What is Human Computer Interaction (HCI)?
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) - Looks at how Humans use or interact with computer Technology . Computers were Designed to help humans do tasks faster, or more accurately. This is why how humans behave and brains work is an important part of computer science
What is UX Design?
User Interface (UI) - The means by which the user and a computer system interact, in particular the use of input devices and software. The same basics of interface design are used across user interfaces to help users get to grips with things faster. It is apart of a boarder term user experience. A design is not usable or unusable by itself. It is the features together with what the user wants to do with it and the users environment, that decide the usability.
User Experience (UX) - The overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.
What if people acted like computers?
CS Field Guide's HCI Video
Bad doors are everywhere
Developed by Canterbury University, it contains a lot of excellent resources.
There are two Chapters in the CS Field Guide on HCI which you could read:
Heuristics
Are rules or methods that come from experience. They are often known as "rule of thumb'.
In HCI, heuristics are a list of guidelines we can use to help us evaluate a user interface.
Learning the Heuristics - mini task
In the exam at the end of the year you will have to be able to:
- define all 10 heuristics.
- identify & describe how they have been used in an user interface.
- describe how they could have been used to improve the interface.
Complete the following activity to:
- help you learn the 10 heuristics.
- gain a greater understanding to be able to apply them in your own interface design.
- If your Teacher has setup a Google Classroom Assignment containing a Google Slide template - use that.
OR create a Google Slide with the title: 11DTEC HCI then attach it to the Google Classroom assignment.
- Your presentation will cover all 10 heuristics.
Make the theme appealing as using colours and images will help you remember things.
If you have preferred way of presenting the information that is fine too - turn that in on completion instead.
- You must have a title slide.
- Then for each Heuristic you need to:
- Give it a heading (the name of the heuristic)
- Give it a definition in your own words not the words of others/online
- Give examples (at least three) of the heuristic being used in an website, use screen shots and explain how they have improved the usability of the site.
- Explain improvements that could have been made to the interface and compare/ contrast it to other interfaces
- Turn it in to Google Classroom when you are finished.