Final Exam: Computer Human Interfaces 1/2010 (CPE)

Instructions

• Write your answer in either Thai or English.
• Closed book!
• Closed note!
• There are 8 questions. Each has 10 scores. Answer all questions in given exam booklets. Do them all. (totally, 40% of the class evaluation)

Guidelines for answering the questions

• You obviously need your common senses to answer the exam.  However, even though you have a good one, it is not enough to get scores.
• References, evidences, causes, rules, laws, theories, and your justifications are supposed to be mentioned. 
• Any design scripts without good explanation will not get good scores.
• You should include an example as part of your answer in an appropriate application of your choice (if not specified).
• Read the question carefully!

Exam

1. Information search is one of the most important parts of websites. Explain the general framework of the search mechanism. 
2. How can we search information of multimedia documents?  What are the challenges?
3. What parts of DBMS play an important role in information search?  And, what parts they cannot do?
4. What are the challenges for information visualization?
5. Supposedly, you are an academic adviser of KU.  You have to supervise many students who may take different courses, get different grades, and stay in different statuses (normal, probation, retried, possibly honors, graduated, graduated with honor).  Design information visualization system in order to ease the supervising task for you (as an adviser.)
6. If you have to design a cell phone, explain the impact of response time to the design of user interface and the satisfaction of users’.
7. Design a job resume for yourself in order to get a position of a computer engineer.  Make a good field layout and write excellent resume content.  Explain what your future boss will think about your resume. You can put false (looks likely to be true) information in order to make your resume look very attractive but you have to underline it.
8. In class, you have experience in mocking up your only own design (such as keyboard) and building only familiar scenarios (such as university registration).  If you are an engineer who is assigned to design a user-interface of an information system that you have never had experiences before, what you would make your own project is successfully done and how you would assess the project results.  

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