mie449s_2004_exam

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FINAL EXAMINATION, APRIL 2004 Fourth Year - Elective MIE449/1409H1S ~ HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE DESIGN FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS Exam Type: D Examiner - G. Jamieson Instructions: -Time: 2.5 hours. -You may use any of your own noles, any leclure overheads, or your textbook. -You may not use the notes of others. -Answer any three questions. -All questions are weighted equally. 1. Formulate a test pian for your nocturnal hemodialysis interface using the principfes introduced in Professor Vicente's guest lecture. include a choice of type of evaluation, the evaluation criteria, and a strategy for data analysis. 2. Describe Ecological Interface Design according to the Types and Levels of automation concepl. Given this perspective, what human human-aulomation performance issues should ecological interface designers consider in their designs? 3. intypical applications of EID, the goal is to reveal all of the constraints of the system through the interface. Discuss how this goal might conflict with the purpose of an interface for a complex, computer-based strategy game such as Civilization or The Sims. 4. Burns and Hajdukiewicz stale that their tex! can “teach you some of the techniques and expose you 10 the examples that shouid help you to become a passably good designer in this field (i.e, EID)." Do you feel that they have been successful? Justify your critique. 5. Burns and Hajdukiewicz introduce the concept of a ‘visual thesaurus for data refationships'. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to EID in the context of a novel industry application.