2500 quiz Final review.
The narrator claims that Captain Richard Madden was (Garden of Forking Paths):
"an Irishman in the service of England"
McLuhan claims that we are _______ by sound
"enveloped"
Match each type of immersion to its description 1. spatial immersion 2. epistemic immersion 3. temporal immersion 4. emotional immersion
1. spatial immersion : simulating movement as an embodied experience 2. epistemic immersion : the desire to know 3. temporal immersion : three narrative effects: curiosity, surprise, suspense 4. emotional immersion : interpersonal relations between the player and computer-operated characters
Which of the following are slips?
After getting ice cream and change I put the ice cream in my purse I forgot to lock the door after leaving the house
The author claims that a game is a ______ between developers and players
Collaboration
You arrive at the Blue Nile Ethiopian restaurant and sit down at a round table. Having been to Ethipia over the summer, you explain to your friends that there is no silverware, you eat the food with bits of Injera bred.
Cultural Constraint
The narrator is going to visit (Garden of Forking Paths),:
Dr. Stephen Albert
According to Norman, precise design requirements should be established before product prototyping begins.
False
Direct observation of a population can be simulated by interviewing a few representatives of the group.
False
Printed checklist are helpful in combating memory lapses in complex tasks because they impose sequential structure to task completion.
False. Complex task are non linear, and thus sequential steps don't help, and can even lead to more memory lapses if an item is skipped.
To battle time crunches, Norman suggests
Have some designers always doing field research
At the end of the story (Garden of Forking Paths), the narrator
Killed someone
Your toaster broke, alas. To fix it you take it apart, find a loose wire, reconnect it, and put it back together again. Upon completion, you find an extra screw. You think you've made a mistake, that screw must belong somewhere in the toaster.
Logical Constraint
McLuhan argues that meaning is conveyed by:
Media
The author defines narrative games and playable stories. Match the term to the definition. 1. narrative games 2. playable games
Narrative games : story is meant to enhance gameplay Playable games : gameplay is meant to produce a story
Even though you have never used the conference room computer before, you can tell immediately which port to insert your USB drive in because of its size and shape.
Physical Constraint
The author distinguishes between mere interaction and the kind of interaction you find in games, which he claims is interaction with a _________
Purpose
The author argues that a game ___________ player behavior.
Shapes
In the double diamond design model, one should diverge and converge to find a problem, and then diverge and converge again to find the solution.
True
The author argues that interactive entertainment means games: basically, that all forms of interactive entertainment are games.
True
When diagnosing a problem, Norman recommends asking _______ repeatedly.
Why
The author claims that interactive fiction can be classified in two ways: bottom up systems that are _____ and top down systems that are ______.
emergent / prescripted
McLuhan believes television:
engages the whole body and is participatory
Skeuomorphic design is good at:
introducing new technologies in a familiar way and presenting users with a system they already understand
The narrator's (Garden of Forking Paths) ancestor created a:
labyrinth
In the text, McLuhan notes that Socrates believed writing:
leads to forgetfulness, and thus ignorance
Norman believes that in human - machine collaborations
machines should assist humans in complex tasks
From Narrative Games to Playable Stories the author claims that "nothing can beat _______" for intensity of user participation, freedom of choice, and depth of immersion
the Holodeck
Which is more important to psychological perceptions of an interface?
the conceptual model
