COLLEGE OF COMPUTER STUDIES

FINAL EXAMINATION IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION II

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Module 1: Review of HCI Concepts: Moving Forward by Going Back to Basics

1. Which type of designers emphasize the form and the material that a product takes?
d. Interface
a. Industrial Designer b. Interaction Designer c. Experience Designer
Designer
Which of the following HCD processes is described below:
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"The team perceive to get the specifications of what will be designed."
a. Define b. Observe c. Deliver d. Iterate
This refers to the capacity that the user has to come upon what are the actions possible to perform in a
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product
a. Discoverability b. Affordances c. Signifiers d. Constraints

4. This property is related about how information is organized and set up.

a. Conceptual Model b. Affordances c. Feedback d. Mappings

Prepared by: Reviewed and Evaluated by: Approved by:

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AIRA P. RUETAS DR. JAY-AR LALATA DR. ROMAN M. DE ANGEL
RAMIR RAMIREZ Coordinator, ITWMA Director, IT
Faculty-in-charge

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5. Which rule for interface design emphasizes using the same design patterns and sequences of actions
for similar situations?

a. Offer Informative b. Design Dialog to Yield d. Support Internal Locus

c. Strive for Consistency
Feedback Closure of Control
6. What field studies the design and use of computer technology, focusing on the interfaces between
people and computers?
b. Human Computer
a. Industrial Design c. Experience Design d. Interaction Design
Interaction
Which type of designer is concerned with the whole emotional impact that a product has on users'
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lives?
a. Interaction d. Conceptual Model
b. Industrial Designer c. Experience Designer
Designer Designer
What term refers to how a product is supposed to be used, emphasizing the relationship rather than a
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property?
a. Affordances b. Signifiers c. Constraints d. Mappings
In the process of a good human-centered design (HCD), which term refers to brainstorming lots of
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concepts and alternatives that can solve users' needs?
a. Iterate b. Rapid tests and ideas c. Observe d. Deliver
Which rule for interface design by Ben Shneiderman supports the idea that users should feel in control
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and that the system responds to their actions?
a. Permit Easy b. Support Internal c. Offer Simple Error d. Reduce Short-Term
Reversal of Actions Locus of Control Handling Memory Load

Module 2: Usability Testing

11. What is usability testing primarily concerned with?

b. Representative users
attempting
a. Developing new c. Designing new
representative tasks in d. Writing user manuals
software hardware interfaces
representative
environments
12. Which of the following is known as the "Wizard of Oz" technique in usability testing?
c. Testing prototypes
a. Testing paper b. Testing screen mock- with a human d. Testing working
prototypes ups responding behind the versions of software
scenes
13. Which method involves inspecting interfaces using software applications?
b. Automated usability
a. Expert-based tests c. Formative testing d. Summative testing
tests
14. What is the goal of summative usability testing?
b. To evaluate the
a. To explore early c. To validate the final d. To create task lists for
effectiveness of specific
design concepts product before release users
design choices
15. Which type of usability test compares a new interface to a set of benchmarks?

a. Formative test b. Summative test c. Validation test d. Expert-based test

16. According to Rubin and Chisnell (2008), what is the first stage in usability testing?
a. Find and select
c. Conduct the test d. Analyze data and
participants b. Develop the test plan
sessions observations

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17. What type of prototypes are often used in formative testing?
a. High-fidelity c. Low-fidelity
b. Functional prototypes d. Validation prototypes
prototypes prototypes
18. Which type of data measures how long each task took to successfully complete?

a. Task performance b. User satisfaction c. Time performance d. Correctness

19. In usability testing, what does a task list help ensure?

a. Users are not
b. The software is free c. The interface meets d. Participants are
confused by
of bugs design benchmarks properly debriefed
ambiguous tasks
20. What is a key characteristic of expert-based tests?
b. Structured
a. Conducted by the
inspections by interface c. Automated analysis d. Exploratory and
developers
experts unfamiliar with of the interface informal
themselves
the interface
21. Which metric is commonly used in usability testing to measure user satisfaction?
c. Standardized, d. Observation
a. Task performance b. Time performance
validated surveys techniques
22. What should be the focus when setting up the test environment for usability testing?
a. Ensuring all b. Creating a c. Selecting the
d. Developing the test
software bugs are comfortable space for appropriate user
plan
fixed participants demographics
Which type of testing is more informal and includes more communication between test moderators and
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participants?
a. Validation testing b. Formative testing c. Summative testing d. Automated testing

24. What does task performance or correctness measure in usability testing?

a. How many tasks
b. How long each task c. User satisfaction
were correctly d. Design effectiveness
took levels
completed
25. In the process of user-based testing, what is the final step according to Rubin and Chisnell (2008)?
a. Conduct the test b. Report findings and c. Analyze data and d. Debrief the
sessions recommendations observations participants

Module 3: Online and Ubiquitous HCI Research

26. What is a common challenge HCI researchers face when recruiting participants for online research?
a. Finding b. Engaging and
c. Securing funding for d. Designing
appropriate research interacting with
studies experimental protocols
tools potential participants
Which tool can be used for remote usability studies, providing webcam video and recording
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capabilities?
b. Web conferencing
a. Paper prototypes c. Desktop software d. In-person focus groups
tools
28. What is a key benefit of using web logs for online data collection in HCI research?
b. They can compare d. They eliminate the
a. They require no c. They are less prone
alternative website need for participant
user consent to errors
designs or interactions recruitment
Which term refers to short-range radio frequency communication technology for remotely storing and
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retrieving data?

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30. What does CAPTCHA stand for?

a. Completely
Automated Public b. Computer Assisted c. Comprehensive d. Completely Automated
Turing test to tell Public Test to Tackle Automated Public Tool Process to Test
Computers and Captcha for Computer Analysis Computers and Humans
Humans Apart
Which technique involves a server randomly selecting one of two alternative web designs for each
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visitor?
a. Think-aloud
b. Formative testing c. A/B testing d. Wizard of Oz testing
studies
32. What is a potential advantage of crowdsourced studies?
b. Potentially decreased
a. High interaction c. Immediate feedback d. In-depth ethnographic
bias and increased
with participants from participants analysis
validity
Which of the following is a challenge when conducting online studies of other application software or
33. mobile devices?

b. Data collection
a. Easier participant c. Less need for d. Higher participant
difficulties and software
recruitment informed consent engagement
incompatibilities
34. What is one way HCI researchers can study online communities?
a. Using in-person b. Conducting lab-based c. Downloading and d. Observing offline social
interviews experiments analyzing forum content interactions
Which study method involves users reading instructions and performing tasks online, often using chat
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tools and web browsers?
c. Laboratory
a. Offline interviews b. Online research d. Field studies
experiments
36. What is the purpose of a CAPTCHA in online security?
b. To distinguish
a. To enhance web c. To collect user d. To improve user
between human visitors
design feedback satisfaction
and automated scripts
37. What do RFID tags use to sense uniquely identified objects?

a. Visual recognition b. Magnetic fields c. Radio frequencies d. Thermal imaging

38. What is a significant aspect of human computation studies?

a. High-cost software b. Outsourcing steps to c. Direct interaction d. Minimal task
infrastructure humans as microwork with participants descriptions

What term describes the automatic identification of a web user's location?

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a. WiMax b. IVR c. Geolocation d. GIS

40. Which of the following is a goal of ubiquitous computing?

a. Limiting data b. Embedding
c. Focusing only on d. Reducing the use of
collection to specific computing capabilities
desktop applications wireless communication
locations into everyday objects

Module 4: The Craft of HCI Research: Methods, Designs, Types and Examples

41. What does quantitative research focus on?

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a. Describing d. Conceptualizing
quantifiable data and c. Observing social life
characteristics of a human experience in
performing statistical and culture
population textual form
techniques
42. Which research method describes the characteristics of the population being studied?
a. Quantitative b. Correlational
c. Descriptive research d. Longitudinal study
research research
43. What is the primary focus of correlational research?
a. Measuring two
variables and b. Repeated c. Gathering and
assessing the observations of the integrating both d. Validating a hypothesis
statistical same variables over quantitative and through an experiment
relationship between time qualitative data
them
44. Cross-sectional research analyzes data collected at:
a. Multiple points in b. One given point in d. Different geographic
c. Random intervals
time time locations
45. What type of research involves repeated observations over time?
a. Cross-sectional
b. Descriptive research c. Longitudinal study d. Experimental research
research
46. In experimental research, what is kept constant?
a. The independent b. The dependent c. The extraneous
d. The hypothesis
variables variables variables
47. Qualitative research aims to:
c. Make sense of
a. Perform statistical d. Analyze data collected
b. Validate a hypothesis phenomena in natural
analysis at one point in time
settings
48. What does phenomenological research focus on?
b. Commonality of a d. Conceptualizing
a. The social life and c. Gathering
lived experience within human experience in
culture of a group quantifiable data
a particular group textual form
49. Ethnographic research involves:
a. Statistical b. Observing social life c. Describing the
d. Experimental
relationship between and culture in natural characteristics of a
validation of a hypothesis
variables settings population
Narrative research is best described as:
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a. Performing
b. Conceptualizing
statistical analysis on c. Observing social life d. Repeated observations
human experience in
quantitative data and culture over time
textual form

51. Mixed-method research integrates:

c. Both qualitative and d. Descriptive and
a. Only qualitative b. Only quantitative
quantitative research experimental research
research methods research methods
methods methods
52. Which of the following is an empirical contribution in HCI?
c. Knowledge gained
a. New theoretical b. New artifacts and d. Review and synthesis
through direct and
concepts and models toolkits of work in a specific area
indirect observations
53. What is an example of a methodological contribution in HCI?

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a. A new framework b. A new application of d. An opinion piece
for the research
or conceptual model a research method persuading readers
community
54. Artifact contributions in HCI refer to:
b. Design and
a. Concepts and c. Corpus for the d. Review and synthesis
development of new
models for thought research community of work done
interfaces and toolkits
55. What type of contribution involves a review and synthesis of work done in a specific area?
a. Theoretical b. Methodological
c. Survey contribution d. Dataset contribution
contribution contribution

Module 5: Experimental Research: A Method for HCI Scientific Experiments

56. What is the primary characteristic of experimental research?

a. Observing b. Manipulating one or
c. Collecting qualitative d. Using surveys to
variables without more independent
data only gather data
manipulation variables
57. Which of the following is an example of a pre-experimental research design?
b. Posttest-only control d. Solomon four-group
a. Time series c. One-shot case study
group design design
58. What distinguishes quasi-experimental research from true experimental research?
a. It includes random b. It lacks random
c. It only uses d. It is conducted in a
assignment of assignment of
qualitative data laboratory setting
participants participants
59. In a true experimental design, what is a necessary component?
a. Observational
b. Control group c. Pretest only d. Simulations
study
60. What type of research design involves testing a single group before and after a treatment?
a. Static-group b. One-group pretest- c. Posttest-only control d. Solomon four-group
comparison posttest design group design design
61. What is the main advantage of true experimental research design?
a. It is easier to b. It allows for the
c. It does not require a d. It relies solely on
conduct than other establishment of cause-
control group qualitative data
designs effect relationships
62. Which of the following is a characteristic of pre-experimental research designs?
a. Random
c. Simplest form of d. Complex statistical
assignment of b. Use of control groups
experimental design analysis
subjects
63. What is the primary focus of a static-group comparison study?
b. Comparing two or
a. Observing a single c. Manipulating multiple d. Conducting surveys on
more groups, with only
group over time independent variables a population
one receiving treatment

64. Which type of experimental design is used when random selection is not possible?

a. Pre-experimental b. Quasi-experimental c. True experimental d. Observational study

65. What is a Solomon four-group design?

a. A combination of b. A single-group c. An observational d. A survey-based data
pretest-only and posttest design study over time collection method
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control groups
66. In experimental research, what are extraneous variables?
a. Variables b. Variables that are c. Variables that affect d. Variables that remain
manipulated by the observed but not the experiment but are constant throughout the
researcher manipulated not of primary interest experiment
67. Which data collection method uses mathematical or computer models to replicate real-life processes?
a. Observational d. Pretest-posttest control
b. Simulation c. Survey
study group design
68. What is a common disadvantage of experimental research?
a. It is less reliable
b. It is often time- c. It does not allow for
than non- d. It cannot establish
consuming and the manipulation of
experimental cause-effect relationships
expensive variables
research
69. In which field is experimental research particularly useful for testing human behavior?

a. Physical sciences b. Social sciences c. Engineering d. Medicine

70. Which experimental design involves conducting tests only at the end of the research period?
a. One-shot case b. Pretest-posttest c. Static-group
d. Time series
study control group design comparison

Module 6: HCI Research and Statistics – Making Sense of Statistics in HCI

71. What type of analysis examines the distribution of cases on only one variable at a time?

a. Bivariate analysis b. Multivariate analysis c. Univariate analysis d. Descriptive analysis

72. Which statistical technique involves creating a table that contains the data and their frequency?
a. Measure of Central b. Frequency d. Covariance
c. Measure of Spread
Tendency Distribution
73. What measure of central tendency is defined as the average of all the items or scores?

a. Median b. Mode c. Mean d. Range

74. What is the measure of central tendency that represents the middle score in a data set?

a. Mode b. Mean c. Median d. Variance

75. Which measure of spread shows the extent of the difference of the data from the mean?

a. Range b. Standard Deviation c. Covariance d. Frequency Distribution

76. What is the square of the standard deviation called?

a. Range b. Mean c. Variance d. Covariance

77. Which statistical test is most popular for analyzing frequency counts?
c. Pearson's product
d. Analysis of Variance
a. t test b. Chi-squared test moment correlation
(ANOVA)
coefficient test
78. What statistical method is widely used for testing correlation?

a. t test b. Chi-squared test c. Pearson's product d. Analysis of Variance

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(ANOVA)
coefficient test
79. What is the most widely adopted statistical procedure for comparing two means?
b. Pearson's product
c. Analysis of Variance
a. Chi-squared test moment correlation d. t test
(ANOVA)
coefficient test
80. SPSS Statistics is used for what type of analysis?
b. Interactive or
a. Descriptive c. Qualitative data
batched statistical d. Survey data collection
statistics only analysis
analysis
81. What type of analysis examines the relationship between more than two variables simultaneously?

a. Univariate analysis b. Bivariate analysis c. Multivariate analysis d. Descriptive analysis

82. What measure of spread is the difference between the lowest and highest values?
a. Standard
b. Variance c. Range d. Covariance
Deviation
Which measure of central tendency indicates the item or score that appears most frequently in a data
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set?
a. Mean b. Median c. Mode d. Range

84. What is the measure of the joint variability of two random variables?

a. Range b. Covariance c. Variance d. Standard Deviation

85. Which analysis involves examining two variables simultaneously to determine their relationship?

a. Univariate analysis b. Bivariate analysis c. Multivariate analysis d. Descriptive analysis

Module 7: Data Gathering Procedures – Collecting Information for HCI Research

86. What is the process of selecting a suitable sample from a population called?

a. Survey b. Sampling c. Observation d. Case Study

Which sampling technique involves selecting subjects so that each has an equal chance of being
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chosen?
a. Convenience c. Simple random
b. Quota sampling d. Snowball sampling
sampling sampling
Which type of sampling involves the researcher choosing subjects, hence making selection
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unpredictable?
a. Probability c. Non-Probability
b. Systematic Sampling d. Stratified Sampling
Sampling Sampling
89. What is the population in which researchers can apply their conclusions called?

a. Target Population b. Accessible Population c. Sample Population d. General Population

90. What term describes the total number of people in the group being studied?

a. Sample Size b. Margin of Error c. Population Size d. Confidence Level

Which term refers to a percentage that indicates how close survey results reflect the views of the
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overall population?
a. Sample Size b. Margin of Error c. Population Size d. Confidence Level

92. What is a key benefit of using surveys in research?

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d. Surveys often need
b. Surveys require data from a large
a. Surveys provide approval from an
advanced tools for number of people
deep, detailed data. institutional review
development. quickly and at a low
board.
cost.
93. Which type of questionnaire is typically faster but may exclude people without internet access?
a. Paper-pencil b. Web-based c. Face-to-face d. Telephone
Questionnaire Questionnaire Questionnaire Questionnaire
Which type of observation involves the researcher doing everything that others in the setting are
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doing?
a. Passive b. Balanced
c. Active Participation d. Total Participation
Participation Participation
95. What type of case study defines a current practice, phenomenon, or system in detail?

a. Descriptive b. Illustrative c. Experimental d. Explanatory

In which type of interview does the interviewer ask each respondent the same series of questions with
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limited response options?
a. Semi-structured b. Unstructured c. Full Structured
d. Open-ended Interview
Interview Interview Interview
97. What is the main advantage of using open-ended questions in a survey?
c. They give
a. They provide b. They are easy to respondents complete d. They are quick to
limited, shallow data. analyze. flexibility in their complete.
answers.
98. Which type of closed-ended questions has choices that do not have a logical order?

a. Ordered response b. Likert scale questions c. Unordered response d. Dichotomous questions

99. What is a major drawback of surveys when it comes to data collection?

d. They may lead to
a. They are c. They are often biased
b. They can only collect biased data when
expensive to towards clear factual
deep, detailed data. questions relate to
administer. phenomena.
patterns of usage.

100 What is the primary purpose of a focused group discussion in research?

c. To get direct
a. To gather d. To conduct structured
b. To observe and feedback from a group
statistical data from interviews with
record behaviors. of interested
a large sample. respondents.
individuals.