CSC 306 HCI and User Interface Design Exam 2022

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CSC 306: Second Semester Examination for CSC306, HCI and User-interface Design, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, 2021/2022 academic year (June 2022 sitting). Section A requires Question 1 (Java Swing layout-manager MCQs, widget-use explanations and widget-choice justification, 15 marks) plus one of Question 2 (a SwingArithmetic GUI completion exercise with GridLayout, button event listeners and a btnMod modulus operation requiring int casting, 21 marks) or Question 3 (a TextFieldFrame GUI code-completion exercise with labelled placeholders A-G, plus analysis of a given EmailMessage class -- what it does, its interface layout, the effect of pressing Send, and the purpose of its ButtonHandler inner class, 21 marks); both Questions 2 and 3 are included in full for completeness. Section B covers ten Yes/No justified HCI statements (poor design, cognitive psychology, the sociotechnological definition of HCI, visual acuity and cone density, the Ponzo Illusion, sensory memory buffers, keyboard ergonomics, speech recognition goals, and task analysis/task language), and a 28-mark question requiring completion of Card, Moran and Newell's 1983 Model Human Processor diagram (labelling the perceptual, motor, system-state and cognitive subsystems, their responsible human organs and functions, and their corresponding computer-based components).