Human Computer Interaction Quiz Questions
Human Computer Interaction Quiz Questions
1. Which of the following are the components of the HCI approach to design?
A. Tasks
B. Usability
C. Humans
D. Technology
2. HCI draws which of the fields together?
A. Psychology
B. Literature
C. Design
D. Computer Science
3. Which of the following is the most likely interface metaphor used by a smartphone
calendar?
A. Take-out Menu
B. A paper diary
C. Mobile Technology
D. A touchscreen
4. What is the major difference between the two websites?
A. Background colour
B. The first website provides control over number of results
C. The second website only contains UI components which are essential
D. The second website has a better color scheme
A. Everything designed has an explicit criterion such that the design is useful and usable
B. Everything is designed keeping a vague context in mind
C. Both of the above
D. None of the above
10. Identify the "interaction" component out of the HCI components (i.e. humans,
computer, and interaction) in the following scenario:
A doctor performs an ultrasound on the ultrasound machine using the handheld device.
A. A doctor
B. performs an ultrasound
C. the ultrasound machine
D. the handheld device
11. What are the goals of a good design?
A. Safety
B. Utility
C. Efficiency
D. All of the above
12. What does the Eyedropper tool do?
A. Paints a single dot of color
B. Picks/Selects the color at the cursor
C. Creates a histogram of the area around the cursor
D. Fades the colors of an area centered on the cursor
13. Which of the following techniques can teach you a few things about a thousand
people?
A. Cognitive walkthrough
B. Market Research
C. Affinity Diagram
D. Contextual inquiry
14. Which of the following is/are true for contextual inquiry?
A. With contextual inquiry, you learn a few things about a thousand people
B. With contextual inquiry, you learn a thousand things about a few people
C. Focus is on what people say
D. Focus is on what people do
15. Which of the following things does Market research helps you learn?
A. Why are users doing something
B. A large variety of things about a thousand people
C. How people do something
D. What people say
16. Which of the following statements is/are true?
A. Users may sometimes do things without any reason
B. Nothing a user does is for no reason
C. Users do not always know what they want
D. Sometimes the behaviour of users can be unique to them
17. Contextual Inquiry requires the HCI expert to:-
A. Intervene the user when he does something incorrect
B. Make sure the user doesn’t think aloud while using the product
C. Ask the users to summarize their reactions
D. Steer the conversation to stay on relevant topics
18. Contextual inquiry is a quick form of which of the following techniques?
A. Psychology
B. Ethnography
C. Focus Group Discussions
D. None of the above
19. Which of the following is/are a part of the general process of making an affinity
diagram?
A. One key concept or observation per sticky note
B. Cluster similar items as you go
C. Label emerging themes
D. Decide the themes of clusters in the beginning
20. Choose the option with the correct order.
A. Cognitive walkthrough -> Affinity diagram -> Contextual inquiry
B. Cognitive walkthrough -> Contextual inquiry -> Affinity diagram
C. Contextual inquiry -> Affinity diagram -> Cognitive walkthrough
D. Affinity diagram -> Contextual Inquiry -> Cognitive walkthrough
21. Which of the following is an aspect of conducting a Contextual Inquiry?
A. Using recording techniques
B. Taking permission from the Institutional Review Board
C. Having the users sign a consent form
D. All of the above
22. To reposition an image in a layer, you would click the layer listing on the Layers
panel, then drag the image with which tool?
A. Selection tool
B. Hand tool
C. Move tool
D. None of the Above
23. Understanding why a user does things in a certain way by asking them questions
related to the use case of the application, signifies which of the following?
A. Focus Group Discussion
B. Contextual Inquiry
C. Market research
D. Affinity Diagram
Which of the following is true about the process of drawing Affinity Diagrams?
A. It is immersive
B. It is persistent
C. It involves brainstorming
D. All of the above
24. Clicking and holding the mouse button or Right-clicking on a toolbar icon does what?
A. Increases the size of that tool
B. Locks that tool as the default action
C. Reveals help text for that tool
D. Shows additional tools related to that tool
25. If a user is in your lab and you need to use lookback.io for user testing, you will use:
A. Live Moderated Testing
B. Unmoderated Self-Testing
C. In-Person Testing
D. None of the above
26. If you need to perform a interactive Task Analysis of your app and you need to use
lookback.io for user testing, you will use:
A. Live Moderated Testing
Unmoderated Self-Testing
B. In-Person Testing
C. None of the above
27. If you need to give the user some fixed context and then let them understand your app
themselves, and you would use ______ on lookback.io:
A. Live Moderated Testing
B. Unmoderated Self-Testing
C. In-Person Testing
D. None of the above
28. Using lookback.io, you can:
A. Have an interactive call
B. Rewatch previous interviews
C. Conduct interviews without consent
D. Invite collaborators to join the interview
29. An IRB proposal allows the committee to check which of the following:-
A. Will the study lead to a feasible result
B. What kind of data is being collected
B. Consent Form
C. Both a & b
D. Neither a, nor b
32. Which of the following information you should include in an IRB proposal?
A. How will the subjects be recruited for the study
B. What is the long-term goal of the research
C. A summary of the study
D. How will the data collected in the study be useful
33. Which of the follow is/are not an important part of the IRB proposal?
A. Goals of the research
B. Biographies of the researchers conducting the study
C. Confidentiality of the data
D. Results of the pre-experimental questions
34. Which of the following discussed in the lecture is analogous to an end user license
agreement?
A. IRB proposal
B. IRB application
C. Flier
D. Pre and Post experimental questions
E. Consent Form
35. Why are pre-experiment questions important in a study?
A. They allow debriefing the user about the goals of the study
B. Raised Button
C. Round Button
D. Icon Button
37. To add resources like images to proto.io project, it must be dragged and dropped into
the ________ window
A. Project Asset
B. Layers
C. Images
D. Inspector
Proto.io does not have default preset option to create prototypes for:
A. Smart Phone
B. Smart TV
C. Smart Watch
D. Web Desktop
38. Which of the following tools/services are not compatible with proto.io:
A. Photoshop
B. Dropbox
C. Illustrator
D. Lookback
39. Which of the following should an HCI expert take care of while designing a product?
A. You can make as many assumptions as possible
B. If it's not obvious to the users, it’s always their fault
C. You should not think yourself as a typical user
D. The end user is never a beginner
40. An HCI expert needs to be careful about which of the following
A. Users hijacking a discussion during an interview
B. Users deliberately providing incorrect information during a survey
C. Users hijacking a discussion during an FGD
D. All of the above
E. Both a and c
F. None of the Above
41. Why do we need a Survey?
A. To narrow down the data collection for your problem
B. Collecting qualitative data
C. To understand the needs of a large set of users
D. Statistical representation of the population of interest
42. Which of the following is a mode of conducting surveys?
A. Telephone
B. Web
C. Hybrid
D. All of the above
43. Which of the following issues occur in personal surveys?
A. Surveys are unnecessarily long
B. Time consuming