Deck 11: HCI Development Methodology

Question 1

System Development Methodology defines a set of _____.

A) activities to be taken in the system development
B) members of the development team
C) location of the office
D) budget of the system development
E) communications means for developers

Answer 1

activities to be taken in the system development

Question 2

SA&D stands for:

A) System Assessment and Distribution
B) System Analysis and Design
C) System Accountability and Dependability
D) System Attractiveness and Durability
E) System Assessment and Design

Answer 2

System Analysis and Design

Question 3

Which of the following is a methodology used in SA&D?

A) After-failure System Recovering Methodology
B) Structure Development Life Cycle model
C) Systems Development Life Cycle model
D) Symptoms Analysis Methodology
E) Nutrition Enhancing Methodology

Answer 3

Systems Development Life Cycle model

Question 4

In the following, which is an element of a system development METHODOLOGY?

A) data
B) strategies
C) textbook
D) equipment
E) personnel

Question 5

A METHODOLOGY of system development consists of many elements such as a particular system development philosophy, a set of strategies, principles, guidelines, techniques, and ___, etc.

A) user manual of equipments
B) tutorials
C) a multi-step procedure dictating what and how to do things
D) system development schedule
E) formation of the system development team

Question 6

SDLC is the abbreviation of:

A) Simplified Development Life Cycle
B) Structured Development Life Cycle
C) Systematic Developing Logical Concept
D) Synchronized Digital Learning Cycle
E) Systems Development Life Cycle

Question 7

SDLC is a commonly used methodology for:

A) task analysis
B) selecting information system components
C) user analysis
D) information system development
E) information system evaluation

Question 8

Which of the following is a system development phase in a typical system development life cycle?

A) Information system project planning and selection
B) problem diagnosis
C) project meeting site selection
D) appointing department manager
E) setting wage rate for project members

Question 9

HCSDLC, which stands for ___, is a new system development methodology that considers both modern SA&D and HCI approaches.

A) Human Controlled System Development Life Cycle
B) Human Critical Structured Development Life Cycle
C) Human Centered Systematic Developing Life Cycle
D) Human Centered Systems Development Life Cycle
E) Human Controlled Synchronized Development Life Cycle

Question 10

HCSDLC is a ___ centered systems development methodology.

A) hierarchy
B) organization
C) commerce
D) profit
E) human

Question 11

In HCSDLC, ___ needs are considered together throughout the systems development life cycle.

A) organizational and human
B) physical and psychological
C) user and system
D) financial and operational
E) intra-organizational and inter-organizational

Question 12

In the following, which is a focus of HCSDLC that SDLC does not give comparable attention to?

A) system functionalities
B) users' behavior constraints and their impacts on system design and use
C) data requirements
D) organizational needs
E) system usability

Question 13

Which of the following is an emphasis in HCSDLC philosophy?

A) focusing on individual needs with the information system
B) all organizational factors should be removed from the SDLC
C) meeting both organizational and individual needs;
D) involving human factors into SDLC is more important than the timing of involving them;
E) concentrating on the interface instead of system functionality in design

Question 14

Which of the following is a task to be done in the project selection and planning phase?

A) determining system requirements
B) specifying user interface
C) evaluating the system
D) analyzing organization's total information systems needs
E) generating design alternatives

Question 15

In the following statements about project selection and planning in a system development life cycle, which one is appropriate?

A) The analysis on an organization's profit goal should be included as part of project planning;
B) Project planning is the very first step of the analysis phase in an information system's development life cycle;
C) Once a project is selected, the system development work moves to the system design phase;
D) Feasibility study should be performed in the stage of project selection;
E) The objective of project planning is to define clear and discrete tasks and the work needed to complete each task.

Question 16

In SDLC, feasibility study happens in the phase of:

A) project selection and planning
B) fund rising
C) analysis
D) design
E) implementation

Question 17

In modern SA&D, the major activity happening in the analysis phase is:

A) incorporating concerns on human factors into the system design
B) studying the current system and proposes alternative systems;
C) analyzing organization's total information systems needs;
D) creating a new information system;
E) understanding the system's impact on real users;

Question 18

A task that should be performed in the analysis phase of SDLC is:

A) identifying potential development projects
B) structuring system requirements according to their interrelationships
C) specifying user interface
D) evaluating the system
E) analyzing organization's total information systems needs

Question 19

In HCSDLC, user needs test should be performed in the phase of:

A) project selection
B) project planning
C) interaction analysis
D) interaction design
E) system implementation

Question 20

User needs test assesses ___.

A) the percentage of users that will accept the to-be-designed system
B) the formation of the potential users of the system
C) the likelihood of target users accepting a system's functionalities
D) usability of the current system that target users are using
E) design requirements of the current system that target users are use

Question 21

Based on Davis and Venkatesh's longitudinal field experiments, feedback from whom can best estimate the hands-on usefulness of a system in its early implementation stage?

A) target users that know nothing about the system to be designed;
B) whoever (including target users and anyone else) that has no knowledge about what is being designed;
C) system developers
D) target users that receive information about a system's functionality without direct hands-on experience;
E) target users that have knowledge about a system's functionality and direct hands-on experience through training.

Question 22

The user-needs test can be based on

A) user imagination about the proposed system
B) a text-based description abut the proposed system
C) a developed system for different purposes
D) the fully developed system for the organization
E) paper-based prototypes of the proposed system

Question 23

User-needs test can help prevent costly software project failures through:

A) verifying requirements of a new software application based on user evaluation at early development stages;
B) listing all requirements of a new software application;
C) developers' long-time hard work on devising the software in mind;
D) letting users be fully responsible for the whole design of the software;
E) finding out users' difficulties in purchasing the software.

Question 24

Which of the following statements about user-needs test is appropriate?

A) User-needs test is an important part of the system design stage;
B) User-needs test can be conducted once or multiple times during analysis stage;
C) User-needs test is very useful in analyzing organization's total information needs;
D) User-needs test is conducted independently by target users;
E) User-needs test focuses on the needs of an organization instead of individual users in that organization.

Question 25

Context Analysis in HCSDLC consists of four aspects, which are physical context, technical context, organizational context and ___.

A) international context
B) manufacturing context
C) social and cultural context
D) transportation context
E) material supply context

Question 26

The larger system of an organization into which a new system will be embedded in is the ___ context of the new system.

A) physical
B) technical
C) social
D) organizational
E) international

Question 27

"Where are the tasks that will be supported by the new system carried out?" is a question concerning ___ context of the to-be-designed system.

A) international
B) organizational
C) social
D) technical
E) physical

Question 28

Which of the following is a concern about the social and cultural context of a system development?

A) the meanings of a specific color in different countries
B) the lighting in a shopping mall
C) the screen size of various mobile devices
D) whether the system will be used by only employees or including customers as well
E) the procedures for carrying out a new project in an organization

Question 29

User analysis in HCSDLC identifies:

A) current systems used by target users
B) characteristics of target users
C) organizational resources for the system development
D) functionalities of the system for supporting users' tasks
E) time for the developers to interact with target users

Question 30

In the context of HCI, the individual characteristics of a system's users can affect:

A) organization's policy on system development
B) users' technical background
C) users' attitude toward the use of a new information system;
D) users' sense of the fashion
E) the project assignment among the system development team members

Question 31

Which of the following is an aspect that should be included in user analysis in a system's development?

A) the technological resources in an organization
B) the make up of the system developing team
C) the mission of an organization
D) the job characteristics of target users
E) the tasks supported by the system

Question 32

Task analysis is concerned with understanding:

A) an organization's goal on market share for a specific period
B) available working time of the project team members
C) project team members' working efficiency
D) hobbies of the target system users
E) what people do to achieve their goals

Question 33

In task analysis of HCSDLC, tasks should be analyzed at two levels: organizational level and ___ level.

A) tool
B) individual
C) group
D) cognitive
E) affective

Question 34

Which of the following statements about task analysis is appropriate?

A) The objective of task analysis is to identify the task-doers that will use the to-be-designed information system;
B) Task analysis reveals the scenarios and conditions under which users perform their tasks;
C) For the two levels of tasks: organizational level and tool level, task analysis only focuses on the tool level tasks;
D) Task analyses are not related to the high level process analyses (e.g. the most general level-0 Data Flow Diagram) in SA&D;
E) Task analysis aims at finding out what target users of a system do in an organization, but not the methods of doing their work.

Question 35

Evaluation metrics used in HCSDLC specify:

A) standard scores for variables involved in system evaluation;
B) the ideal performance of the system being designed;
C) the expected human-computer interaction goals of the system being designed;
D) the users to be involved in system evaluation
E) the best practice of similar systems that should be referred in the development of a new system.

Question 36

Which of the following is an HCI concern that is reflected in evaluation metrics?

A) cost
B) efficiency
C) return on investment
D) usefulness
E) mission of an organization

Question 37

Which of the following statements about evaluation metrics is appropriate?

A) Rigid HCI expectations in evaluation metrics helps lower system development cost;
B) Evaluation metrics provide measures for task analysis;
C) Evaluation metrics are standard score lists for variables to be measured in the evaluation;
D) Evaluation metrics are often quantified into specific measures to guide HCI development of a system;
E) Evaluation metrics are developed in the design phase of HCSDLC.

Question 38

Which of the following statements about the alternative generation and selection stage is appropriate?

A) The stage is the very first step in the design phase of HCSDLC;
B) Different ways of constructing the to-be-developed system is not among the considerations of the stage;
C) Once entering the stage, systems requirements cannot be changed;
D) All alternatives of a system should be generated on the basis of the same requirement specifications and HCI evaluation metrics;
E) Alternative selection is a step to shape the final HCI evaluation metrics for a system.

Question 39

In the interaction design phase of HCSDLC, which of the following activities is performed?

A) formative evaluation
B) summative evaluation
C) requirement specification
D) alternative selection
E) user-needs test

Question 40

Interface specification of a to-be-designed information system should include:

A) expense on necessary materials for developing the interface
B) semantic understanding of users' information needs
C) return on the investment of interface design
D) explanation on the type of users that the system is good for
E) requirements for the interface elements

Question 41

The four aspects that contribute to the overall user interface design are metaphor, media design, dialog design and ___.

A) keyboard design
B) monitor design
C) presentation design
D) mouse design
E) speaker design

Question 42

Using a shopping cart for holding items before checking out in the e-commerce context is an example of:

A) media design
B) dialog design
C) presentation design
D) metaphor design
E) feedback design

Question 43

Media design is concerned with:

A) finding or inventing an analog to help users develop a mental model of a system;
B) how information is provided to and captured from users during a specific task;
C) the decisions on display layout;
D) defects in interface design;
E) selecting certain media types for meeting specific task semantic requirement.

Question 44

Which of the following statements about media design is appropriate?

A) Decisions on media design only happen at the lexical level of human-computer interaction;
B) Decisions on media design are independent from specific information presentation needs in a system;
C) Animations are the only type of dynamic images used in media design;
D) Media design concerns the decisions on display layout;
E) Static images are a type of media used in interface design;

Question 45

Dialogues in HCI are analogue to:

A) conversations between two people
B) games between two people
C) a lecture given by a speaker to a group of audience
D) a movie aired on a public TV channel
E) a show performed in a theatre

Question 46

In the following statements about presentation design of an information system, which one is appropriate?

A) All necessary information that users need should be kept from being immediately available;
B) The presentation of an interface should minimize users' search time with necessary keystrokes;
C) There is no need to provide structure and sequence of the display to users;
D) The design of an interface should help a user distribute his/her attention to all available information evenly;
E) The more information presented to users, the more they will benefit.

Question 47

Which of the following descriptions about formative evaluation is appropriate?

A) There is only one formative evaluation that occurs in the design phase of HCSDLC;
B) The final decisions on interface design is based on one formative evaluation;
C) A formative evaluation can occur several time during development life cycle;
D) Formative evaluations occurs and only occurs in the design phase of HCSDLC;
E) Formative evaluations mainly identify users-needs in using the to-be-designed system.

Question 48

A task that needs to be done in a system's implementation phase is:

A) budgeting
B) planning
C) user analysis
D) coding
E) task decomposing

Question 49

In the following description about prototyping, which one is appropriate?

A) Prototyping is an activity that only happens in user-needs test;
B) Prototyping is used to demonstrate the real system after it is developed;
C) Low-fidelity prototyping normally uses materials that would be expected to be in the final product;
D) High-fidelity prototyping uses prototypes that are simple, cheap and quick to produce and modify;
E) Prototyping can occur many times in the development process of an information system.

Question 50

HCI-DLC is the abbreviation for:

A) HCI Development Life Cycle
B) HCI Development Logic Cycle
C) HCI Design Life Cycle
D) HCI Design Logic Cycle
E) HCI Device Location Check