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National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences

Human (A,B,C,D,E) (Final Exam)
Max Time: 3 hours

Max Marks: 80 Marks

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Instructions:

Make sure there are 8 sides of this booklet.

The paper contains 9 questions.
Use of any unfair means will result in a straight F in the course.
You have to solve the questions in the space provided.
No extra sheet is allowed.

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Question #1:
For each of the statement given below specify which of Ben Schneidermans Principle is
violated.
1. 22 different icons for editing an image are displayed when ever any user uses a photoshop
application.
2. A pop-up advertisement appears as you are using Facebook
3. When you are about to close an application with some unsaved data, the system responds do you
want to save your work.
4. In a word processing application, the close application cross is placed on the top right of the
application window.
5. In an operating system, if you accidently delete a file it is permanently deleted.
6. The website constantly displays percentage of data uploaded as you are uploading large amount of
data on a website.

Question #2:
What should be the posture for each of the following functionalities and why? Only consider the
functionalities mentioned in this question.
Functionality
1. A big screen in a
stadium that displays
advertisement during a
cricket match
2. Clock setting in mobile
phones

Posture

Why?

3. Email in iPhone

4. ATM

5. Connectivity in mobile
phones
6. AVI to mp3 convertor

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Question #3:
Using KLM-GOMS, how much time will it take to add two 2-digit numbers? You may assume your hand is
on the mouse and you only use the mouse for this application.

Question #4: (3+2)

Final answer: __________________________________________

Question #4:
a. List the 3 major long term memory processes.
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b. Keeping in view George Millers theory, which path will the incoming info (shown in the figure
below) take if we are asked to remember more than 7 2 items at a given time? Draw the path
below.

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Incoming data
SENSORY
MEMORY

WORKING
MEMORY

LONG TERM
MEMORY

Question #5:
Calculate the time it will take to acquire the target shown in the image below, using the Fitts law. The
projected movement of the mouse is shown in dotted lines. All distances are given in screen units.
Assume value of all coefficients is 1.

Target

Image is NOT drawn to scale.

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Use rough sheet for calculations. Only show formula and answer here
FORMULA:
FINAL ANSWER:

Question #6:
a. Identify which of the following is an idiom or a metaphor?
Keyboard
Menu
Hot key
Tab
Icons

Drop-down
Maximize
Pinching (for zoom-out)
Mouse
Dialog box

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b. Why are metaphors so extensively used in interface designing?

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c. List two ways of minimizing excise?
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d. In March, Olphers made its way to store shelves with a new logo and packaging. The new
packing with very distinct color will help break through the clutter on the diary shelf. Which
cognitive principle is applied for this strategy?
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Question #7:
Google has decided to develop an application to judge the performance of its employees and to give
feedback about their progress. This application will be used by the managers. Before starting
development, a survey is conducted to gather the user characteristics. The summary of user profiling is
illustrated below.
Among managers, attitude and motivation towards computers is generally high, as 82% perceive
computer to be important to their jobs. Educational level is also very high, with 96% having at least
university level degree and they do not find any difficulty in reading long texts but managers are quite
busy whole day and cannot write and read large evaluation summaries of employees. Job and task
experiences are moderately high with 54% possessing 11 years experience. They have moderate level
of training support for the new systems; training is typically 3 hours or even less in duration. Majority
managers have fairly high typing speed.
A majority of these users are male and almost 70% have vision deficit and wear corrective lenses.
Extract usability requirements from above user profiling summary.

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Question #8:
Task Analysis:
A blind student wants to search book from the library.

a) Write the scenario for this use case and List down the issues in it.

Question #9:
Lets design the Quran Audio Player application for elderly.
This application provides the user with interface to listen the Quran and application provides following
functionalities.

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1. Listen Quran in Arabic

2. Listen Quran translation.
3. Search any Ayah or Surah.
4. Listen Daily designated Surahs/Ayats of Quran.
From the user profiling and contextual task analysis, we have following major observations:
1. Elderly cannot memorize the Surah number of all Surah.
2. Elderly cannot easily read from the mobile.
3. Elderly listens to Quran in high volume.
a) Develop conceptual model of this application.

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b) Develop detailed design of Search Surah or Ayat.