Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna
ISO 9001:2015 Certified
Level I Institutionally Accredited

Engagement Activity 1.1

Identification. Identify the terms that best describe the following statements.

Human-Computer
Interaction
__________________1. It is the study of how people interact with computers and to what
extent computers are or are not developed for successful interaction with human
beings.
Affordance
__________________2. It refers to an attribute of an object that allows people to know
how to use it.

Consistency
__________________3. It refers to having similar operations and similar elements for
achieving similar tasks.

Mapping
__________________4. It is about having a clear relationship between controls and the
effect they have on the world.
Feedback
__________________5. It is the principle of making it clear to the user what action has
been taken and what has been accomplished.

Expert users
__________________6. They have training and experience exclusively with commercial
software. They understand concepts peculiar to computers such as files, folders, saving,
and deleting.

Occasional users
__________________7. These users focus exclusively on the goals they want to
accomplish and neither understand nor care about the software they use to accomplish
those goals.

Computer
__________________8. Refers to any technology ranging from desktop computers, to
large scale computer systems.

Visibility
__________________9. It is the basic principle that the more visible an element is, the
more likely users will know about them and how to use them.
Novices
__________________10. Newbies or inexperienced users.

Engagement Activity 1.2

True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct, write FALSE if the statement is
wrong or incorrect.

FALSE
__________________1. Exemplar icons have no physical or analogous correspondence
with the image depicted and must be learned to understand its meaning.
FALSE
__________________2. In color guidelines, the limit of colors per screen is seven colors.
FALSE
__________________3. In color guidelines again, to order data one must follow the CMYK
spectrum.

TRUE
__________________4. Ergonomics is also known as human factors.
 FALSE
__________________5. Efficiency is usually defined in terms of output per unit of time,
whereas productivity incorporates other variables, particularly the ratio of output to
input.

TRUE
__________________6. Design guidelines are sets of recommendations on how to apply
design principles to provide a positive user experience.

TRUE
__________________7. Design principles are widely applicable laws, guidelines, biases
and design considerations which designers apply with discretion.

FALSE
__________________8. The guidelines represent general points of direction.
FALSE
__________________9. The principles reveal how to approach the general points.

TRUE
__________________10. The rules are direct instructions.

Performance Tasks
Laboratory Activity 1.1

Watch several YouTube videos and read articles related to HCI. (1) Copy and paste the link/s of the videos and articles that you
reviewed.

According to what has been discussed, (2) write your own definition of Human Computer Interaction or HCI. (3) Also, enumerate
three importance of HCI using your own words.

Laboratory Activity 1.2

In online branding, the first things that will catch the attention of every audience is the logo. Creating a logo is both fun and
daunting task because it needs creativity, skills, and graphics tools to make one. There are several techniques in creating a logo such
as Negative Space, Line Art, Gradient Mesh, and Golden Ratio.

Assuming that you will be developing a personal website. Adapt a certain logo-making technique to create your own logo.

I found this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbqa-LB5Fx8) that will help you in creating your own logo. Watch
this first and then make your own logo. Utilize the graphics tool/s that seem appropriate to you.