CSC 306 HCI and User Interface Design Exam 2025

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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, 2024/2025 academic year (June 2025 sitting). Section A covers Java Swing dialogs and GUI programming: Question 1 asks about JOptionPane.showInputDialog() and showMessageDialog(), and requires sketching dialog outputs for two given programs; Question 2 is a GridLayout-based SwingArithmetic calculator GUI exercise requiring students to explain and complete missing lines of code for adding components, wiring button event listeners, and implementing arithmetic and clear operations. Section B, Section I is a 32-item multiple-choice section covering input/output/pointing/display/printing devices, OCR, Norman's Execution-Evaluation Model and Gulfs of Execution/Evaluation, interaction frameworks, social and organizational issues in HCI, human input/output channels, and sensory/short-term/long-term memory. Section B, Section II has four short-answer questions on the definition of interaction in HCI and the contributions of cognitive psychology, ergonomics, graphic design and software engineering; the difference between mistakes and slips; the definition of cognition; and the three subsystems of the Human Processor Model.