1. A menu system is being designed for a monthly cuisine subscription service system for Amazons Alexa device (voice only). The idea is that the user will select their favorite type of cuisine from an audible menu, and then each week, a new dinner pack will be shipped. There are several cusine selections available that vary in price: Italian, Thai, Mexican, Greek, Japenese, Fusion, Vegan, etc... Describe three reasonable orderings of the voice menus and justify each.

2. Provide three examples of an application where menu selection and form fill-in are more appropriate than a direct-manipulation strategy.

3. Analyze an application you commonly use, such as your word processor (but dont pick your word processor), and list the various commands available through keyboard shortcuts (such as CTRL-P to print, F7 for spellcheck, etc.). Decide if these commands are well designed for users.

4. Produce a thoughtful argument about what role natural-language interaction (NLI) should have in user interfaces. Be sure to list at least three benefits and limitations of NLI.

5. A large mall is designing a kiosk that can display store sale and special activity information in public locations. The kiosk will feature a touch screen so users can select a store by a mall map.

a. Give one reason why a touch screen is an effective device for this application.

b. Provide one difference between direct-control and indirect-control pointing devices.

c. Name a task when one type of direct-control device /indirect-control pointing device is a more appropriate device than the other.

6. The use of mobile devices has been increasing rapidly over the past few years. These devices typically feature much smaller screens than desktop computers.

a. Provide two strategies of how you could successfully implement an interface to browse through a user's set of digital photographs on a small device.

b. Provide an example when speech generation would serve the user's need better than a visual screen.

c. Provide two limitations the user would have by using the speech generator.