Activity

Roll. No.: C051 Name: Piran D. Mistry

Sem/Year: X Batch: A1
Date of Experiment: 16-03-2021 Date of Submission: 16-03-2021
Faculty-in-charge: Ruchi Sharma

1. According to you, what is role of multimedia in interface design. How can it be utilized?
Answer:
Multimedia 
 It is a form of communication which has content in the form of texts, audios, images,
animations, or video.
 Multimedia is used in interface design for easy as well as creative interaction with the
user of the application.
 It makes it easier for the user to communicate in the desired manner to get the
required output.
 Nowadays, it is not just one form media that is used for communication, but a
combination of all five forms (texts, audios, images, animations, or video) to make the
interaction smoother and more creative between the user and the application.
 Different forms of media can be used to target different set of users. In other words, it
helps the developers to create user specific applications which target only the suitable
users.

2. Differentiate between AR and VR with respect to HCI.

Answer:

AR (Augmented Reality) VR (Virtual Reality)

AR lets the user experience the real world, VR removes the user from that real-world
which has been digitally augmented or experience, replacing it with a completely
enhanced in some way. simulated one.

VR requires complete immersion hence, VR

The lens on the smart glasses that deliver
devices shut out the physical world
AR capabilities are transparent.
completely.

AR applications are best suited for use cases

VR applications are best suited for
where users need to be connected to and
simulation or complete immersion.
present in the real world.
In other words, Virtual Reality involves Augmented Reality, on the other hand,
providing sensory input to a user that involves a live direct or indirect experience
replicates being present in a real or imagined of an environment, overlaid with computer-
 environment. Most commonly the sensory
generated sensory input usually in the form
input is limited to sight and sound, but it can
of graphics, video and/or sound.
also include other senses such as touch.

3. Why is cognition important in designing interface?

Answer:
 Cognition involves processes such as thinking, remembering, learning and decision
making.
 Through study these humans' cognitive process, the developers of interaction system
can be better at understanding users' psychological characteristic during the process of
interacting with computer systems.
 In other words, to achieve the goal of developing human-oriented human-computer
interfaces developers have to develop sound knowledge of the structure and the
representational dynamics of the cognitive system which is interacting with the
computer.