CS 8316 (Spring, 2021): Homework #1
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What is usability?
What is its relationship to the general concept of quality.
Can it be quantified? How?
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What are the different interaction styles?
Give some example user populations and their tasks
where each interaction style can be used to accomplish these user tasks.
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Select a software, an application,
a Web site, an online service, a smart device, a game,
or anything with computer/software embedded in it,
that you may interact with it as a user,
and perform the following:
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Classify the interaction style(s) of its user interface.
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Analyze its usability by consulting the 8 golden rules of interface design.
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How would you measure its usability? Give some examples.
(Make up some numbers, if it helps).
Due Date:
2/9/21.
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@engr.smu.edu).
Posted: Feb. 3, 2021.
Last update: Feb. 3, 2021.