Wednesday 11 January 2017

HCI H/w dont write assignment or quiz on title just write ur roll number and name and start it

-Describe in terms of semantic directness a word processing application that:-a)allows users to move text around in a file by marking the beginning and end ofthe section to be moved and then issuing a move command-b) and also uses drag-and-drop editingANSWER IN BOOK:The operations in (a) are semantically indirect,because thegoal of moving a section will have to be translated initially into the goal of issuingcommands to mark the beginning and the end of the section and then a furthercommand to move the marked section.-The operations in (b) are more semantically directin the sense that draggingand dropping does not require the user to have to reconceptualize the task into anew set of goals, but simply to learn how to move text directly through selecting thetext to be moved and then holding the mouse button down, to drag it to the desired