CSC 306 HCI and User Interface Design Exam 2022

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Second Semester Examination for CSC 306, Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface Design, Department of Computer Science, University of Buea, 2021/2022 academic year (Tuesday 07/06/2022 sitting). Section A, Section I is a 23-item multiple-choice section (numbered 1-10 and 12-23, with item 11 absent in the source) covering the definition and scope of HCI, the history of the term, usability and acceptance testing, successful-product requirements, interaction paradigms, memory and chunking, developer-specific software requirements, reading and eye-movement research (fixations, saccades, regressions), personality, the Hawthorne studies, flicker and luminance perception, capitalized-text reading speed, the Model Human Processor, interface design rationale, and the role of sound and moving icons in interface design. Section A, Section II has four short-answer questions worth 15 marks on the definition of interaction and its models, the functions of long-term memory, types of reasoning with examples, and common interaction styles.