Human-Computer Interaction 3e ­ Dix, Finlay, Abowd, Beale

exercises  -  17. models of the system

EXERCISE 17.8

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

List the main elements of the state of the phone (you can use programming language variable declarations for this) and then write down a step-by-step walkthrough of the state as the user accesses a shortcut at position '3' as in steps C.1­C.10 of scenario C.

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ex.17.1 (ans), ex.17.2 (ans), ex.17.3 (ans), ex.17.4 (ans), ex.17.5 (tut), ex.17.6 (tut), ex.17.7 (tut), ex.17.8 (tut), ex.17.9 (tut)

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