CS 3724 Midterm Review

The midterm will be a closed-book, closed-notes exam EXCEPT for a single 8.5x11 sheet of paper with notes ON ONE SIDE ONLY. The questions will primarily come from material covered in class, though material from the textbooks will be helpful. In Shneiderman's DTUI, we have covered chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10. In Norman's DOET, we have covered chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. You will have the entire class period to complete the midterm. Several questions have multiple parts -- be sure to answer each question completely.

There will be three types of questions on the midterm:

Chronological orderings -- you will be asked to order important developments in human factors. Consider the below example:
```
  ___Computer

  ___Egyptian heiroglyphics

  ___Windows 95

  ___Printing press
```
You should order the events 3-1-4-2.

Multiple answer multiple choice -- you will be asked to select the appropriate answer or answers to the question

  Which of the following are essential in ethnographic observations?

  a) ethnographers participate in participants' daily lives
  b) ethnographers use participants as part of the project team
  c) ethnographers ask participants to act out scenarios
  d) ethnographers spend an extended period of time in a culture

You should select a and d.

Essay questions -- the essay questions will have multiple parts. The first part typically will test your knowledge of facts and definitions important to HCI, while the other parts will push you to think about deeper issues. Below is an example:
```
  List three tasks for which humans perform better than computers.
  How can an interface designer leverage each of these tasks in
  creating an interface?
```

If you have any questions, please post them to the newsgroup so that the professor, the TA, and your fellow students can help you to answer them.

Good luck!