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Human Interface Design: The Chocolate Factory

In this activity about human interface design issues, learners help the Oompa-Loompas of a great chocolate factory solve different problems. Through this exercise, learners will explore affordance, mapping, transfer effects, population stereotypes, and visible constraints. Variations, extensions, background information and further reading suggestions are included in the PDF....

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Information Technology, User Interface, Civil Engineering, Problem Solving, Evaluation, NSDL, Representation, Population Stereotypes, Affordances, Human Error, Information and Communication, Reasoning, Information Systems, Computer Systems, Science and Society, Computer Engineering, Materials Science, Technology and Society, Troubleshooting and Maintenance, Geoscience, Mathematics, Mapping, Icons, Risks and Benefits, Manufacturing Engineering, Computing and Information, Engineering, General Science, Technology, Impacts of Technology, Design, The Design Process, Computer Science, Manufacturing, Education, Transfer Effects

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Science and Technology / Computer Science

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Authors:: Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust
Computer Science Unplugged
Google Inc.
Ian Witten
Mike Fellows
Tim Bell
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: Grade School, Middle School, High School
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: No
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States