Session 2 Quiz

How would you best describe the throughput or processing components of computers?

Input devices and the computer monitor are examples of visible throughput components.

Experts in computer science strive to understand how the mind processes:

date and information

The FIIT model:

encourages the evaluator to examine the fit between each two of the components: user and technology, task and technology, and user and task.

What is the human-technology interface?

hardware and software that support humans interacting with technology

Considering principles of cognitive informatics when designing technology interfaces helps to mitigate:

human mental workload

Videoconferencing technology:

allows professionals to communicate more effectively and frequently with in-home patients.

Computer science can facilitate:

Acquiring data and information and manipulating it

Surveys of potential or actual users of a website are conducted to:

assess preferences for a number of design characteristics such as display color, menu buttons, text, photo size, icon metaphor, and layout by selecting, on a computer screen, their preferences for each item from two or three options.

Understanding of clinical practice decision making using cognitive science principles promotes the development of:

clinical decision support tools

Telehealth interfaces allow patients to:

interact with a virtual clinician (actually a computer program). B. have tailored educational programming developed C. interact when they want to. answer: ALL of these are correct

Applications of cognitive science to health informatics include all but which of the following?

interioerability of systems

What term refers to the visual display resembling a television screen?

monitor

The term that refers to the ability of the OS to be moved from one hardware architecture to another with few changes is:

portability

In addition to exploring the nature of the mind, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, and decision making, cognitive science also includes:

social factors influencing the design and use of technology

When a bar-coding medication system interfered with their workflow, professionals devised ___________, such as removing the armband from the patient and attaching it to the bed, because the bar-code reader failed to interpret bar codes when the bracelet curved tightly around a small arm.

workarounds