CSC 306 HCI and User Interface Design Exam 2024

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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, 2023/2024 academic year (June 2024 sitting). Section A covers Java Swing layout managers (purpose, FlowLayout/BorderLayout/GridLayout behaviour, default layouts of JPanel/JFrame, and choosing the right Swing component for a task) and a BMI-computer GUI exercise requiring students to declare variables, write a computeBMI method, write an event-handler method, and set JLabel text to match two given screenshots. Section B covers ten Yes/No justified questions on core HCI concepts (domains, interfaces, experiential cognition, vision, the Cocktail Party Effect, user-centred design, computer communication, the definition and goals of HCI, interaction paradigms); a diagram-completion question on Card, Moran and Newell's 1983 Model Human Processor (labelling the perceptual, motor, cognitive subsystems and the feedback/system-state loop, with the responsible human organ and function for each); and questions on Norman's seven-stage Execution-Evaluation Model, the Gulf of Execution and Gulf of Evaluation, and the difference between mistakes and slips.