NPTEL Online Certification Course
User-centric Computing for Human-Computer Interaction
Assignment Number 5: Detailed Solution
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
1) Typing performance is _______ proportional to the time taken by the tasks locate (key) and
movement (finger).
a. Inversely
b. Directly
Ans: Inversely
2) What does WIMP stand for in the context of human-computer interaction?
a. Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
b. Widgets, Input, Mouse, Popups
c. Workflow, Images, Manipulation, Panels
d. Web, Interfaces, Multimedia, Protocols
Ans: Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
3) Digraph probability can be found from a _________ of text for a language
a. Bigram
b. Corpus
c. Letter
d. Paragraph
Ans: Corpus
4) In the 2D Pointing Model, what are the two key factors considered for the determination of
difficulty?
a. Distance and Time
b. Amplitude and Direction
c. Width and Height
d. Radius and Circumference
Ans: Amplitude and Direction
5) Bivariate pointing model was first introduced for the user-centric system design in
a. 1950
b. 1992
c. 2022
Ans: 1992
6) Which one from the following is the correct set of fundamental touch operations?
a. swipe and tap
b. swipe, tap, and pinch
c. tap, scroll, and multi-touch gestures
Ans: tap, scroll, and multi-touch gestures
7) There are _________ parameters in the Trivariate pointing model.
a. Three
b. Four
c. Five
d. Six
Ans: Five
8) The Steering Law can be used to model movement time in tasks where users are constrained to
move pathway with a fixed width.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
9) Generally, two-dimensional pointing task is _____________.
a. amplitude pointing
b. direction pointing
c. combination of both amplitude pointing and direction pointing
Ans: combination of both amplitude pointing and direction pointing
10) In the derivation of the Steering Law, we assume steering movement comprises of a series of sub-
movements along the tunnel path.
a. True
b. False
Ans: True
