CIS 524 Computer Interaction and Design

CIS 524 Week 7 Case Study 3: Security A large, fast-food chain unveiled a new touch screen register for its franchises. Each cashier was assigned a user id and password combination to log in to the register. The system allowed the incorrect password to be entered four (4) times before the register would lock and require a manager to unlock it with a key card. To prevent unauthorized access, the registers would lock after three (3) minutes if the

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CIS 524 Week 10 Term Paper 1 Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing in the field of interface design takes tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals and spreads them out among a group of people or a community. These assignments are usually done through an open call. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly popular with the growth of Web 2.0 and online communities. Write a fifteen to eighteen (15-18) page paper in which you: 1. Examine the invention

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CIS 524 Week 4 Discussion 2 Menu Selection and Organization Please respond to the following • Describe the considerations that you would take into account when selecting the menu style for an application and why. Support your response with examples. • Imagine you have been asked to help a novice designer effectively organize his menu content in an application. Provide the novice designer with the advice you feel would be most help

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CIS 524 Week 4 Discussion 1 Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments Please respond to the following: • Your software development company has been contracted to build a tool that will manage user accounts and rights in an Active Directory environment. One of your developers tells you that he wants the tool to make use of direct manipulation. A second developer argues that a command line structure would be a better and more secure app

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CIS 524 Week 3 Discussion 2 Interface Design Models Please respond to the following Evaluate interface design models and describe design issues across human-computer interaction environments associated with these models. Support your response. • Building an interface can be broken down into the phases of design and development. Analyze the activities that take place in both phases, and explain why certain activities should be included in

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Week 2 Case Study 1 User Interfaces Early user interfaces were designed with little or no consideration for the end user. This was largely due to technical and hardware limitations. The poor interface design required a specific skill set for users and limited the mass appeal of computers. Modern interfaces are much more user friendly. Theo Mandel wrote about the five (5) golden rules of interface design. Read Mandel’s article located at

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