exercises

16. dialogue notations and design

EXERCISE 16.6

This exercise is based on the mobile phone scenario on the web at: www.hcibook.com/e3/scenario/phone/

Figure 16.23 shows a STN for the simple mobile phone described in scenarios A and B on the web.

(a) Identify any missing transitions and suggest possible behaviour that would be sensible for the user.

(b) Scenarios C and D demonstrate the additional behaviour of the new phone. Update the STN in Figure 16.23 to add the new store and recall facilities of the new phone. Where there is not sufficient information in the scenarios choose suitable behaviour. You can use ellipses (…) where you would expect major additional functionality (e.g. storing numbers); don't attempt to fully specify such additional functions. List and briefly describe and justify any such design decisions that are required or any other design issues that become apparent.

Figure 16.23. STN for original phone

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ex.16.1 (ans), ex.16.2 (ans), ex.16.3 (ans), ex.16.4 (ans), ex.16.5 (tut), ex.16.6 (tut)

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