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Bcs2173 Human Computer Interaction Semester I Session 2021/2022

This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on the foundations of human-computer interaction. Students are asked to discuss in groups what makes a high-quality website by considering questions about website qualities. They are also instructed to review resources on website design ratings and award-winning websites to evaluate characteristics of good design. Finally, students must browse websites, choose one good and one bad Malaysian website, rate them, and comment on design, content, and features in a table.

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Bcs2173 Human Computer Interaction Semester I Session 2021/2022

This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on the foundations of human-computer interaction. Students are asked to discuss in groups what makes a high-quality website by considering questions about website qualities. They are also instructed to review resources on website design ratings and award-winning websites to evaluate characteristics of good design. Finally, students must browse websites, choose one good and one bad Malaysian website, rate them, and comment on design, content, and features in a table.

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BCS2173 HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

SEMESTER I SESSION 2021/2022

LAB EXERCISE: CHAPTER 1 – FOUNDATION OF HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

INSTRUCTION:

1. This lab assignment should be conducted in your group project.


2. Preparation time for this lab assignment is 2 hours.
3. Each group needs to submit the soft copy to Kalam.
4. File should be named as LAB_EXERCISE 1_ GroupNumber.

OVERVIEW:
The purpose of this task is to begin considering what makes a high-quality website. As a group, you need
to discuss below questions by performing the activities:

 Why do you feel that some websites are good?


 Why do you feel that some websites are not so good?
 Do others agree with your opinion?
 Does anyone disagree?
 Who is the target audience for a particular site?
 How might website quality be judged differently across different audiences?
 Are there some qualities of websites that all audiences would agree are good? What are these
qualities?

RESOURCES:

1 WWW Cyberguide Ratings for Web Site Design (in PDF, requires Adobe Reader)

2 The Webby Awards for examples of websites that for various reasons have received critical
acclaim

3 The Best Designs for more examples of "good" websites


ACTIVITIES:
1
1.What is a high-quality website? 

As a group, discuss the questions presented in the Overview section.

2.What do the experts say? 

Visit the websites listed in the Resources section.

Resource 1 shows a list of elements in evaluating a website by McLachlan (2002) on


what constitutes high-quality websites. Which of these elements do you most agree
with? Do you disagree with any of these author’s opinions?

Resource 2: Do the winners of Webby Awards have features or characteristics that you
don't like? Discuss this as a group.

Resource 3: Identify the characteristic of designs in thebestdesigns.com, state your


individual chosen design and justify the reason.

3.Become a web critic. 

Browse the web and choose one Malaysian website that's good and one that's bad.

 Rate each site from 1 to 5 (5 being the highest).


 Comment on the site's design. Does the site look good? What is the eye drawn to
immediately?
 Comment on the site's content. What seems to be the main purpose of the site?
Is the purpose clear?
 Comment on the site's noteworthy features. How do the features enhance the
site's main purpose?

Create a table for your notes which looks something like this:

Explain Explain
Name of Explain
  URL Rating Design the
Website Purpose
Pros/Cons features
Good site        
Bad site        

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