Interaction+Architecture+&+Designing+a+Questionnaire

 **Write a description of interaction architecture as defined by Mat Hunter and by** **Rikako Sakai** **in relation to their work with Kodak in 1995.** According to **Rikako Sakai**, the interaction architecture was the Photostitch program, which was developed by Kenji Hatori. PhotoStitch is a computer and camera program that allowed the user to take a panoramic photograph of a subject by taking photos while adjusting the position of the camera (2). These multiple photographs will then be transferred onto a computer and the computer program will provide the user with instructions about how to piece the photograph together. Rikako Sakai constructed a series of tests on the PhotoStitch program and discovered a number of problems with the program, such as the photo extractor was not visible to the user (2). Rikaki Sakai redesigned the interaction architecture into a more user friendly software. The changes made were the inclusion of tabs, the reduction of steps, and the inclusion of animations.
 * According to  ****Mat Hunter** **, an ‘interaction architecture’, also known as‘information architecture’, was “a series of extensible rules that would allow not just one camera to be designed but a whole series” (1). This idea translated into the creation of something more **experiential** for the user and was known as the ‘user experience prototype’. The user experience prototype was simply a big box with a security camera on top and a thick cable connecting the user experience prototype to a Macintosh computer (1). This prototype allowed the user to take a photo, chose to delete the photograph, and also to send it across the room to a TV (1). 8 months after the prototype launched, Kodak took it and transformed it into the DC-210, which was considered to be the predecessor to the modern digital cameras. **

**How does the author define 'leading questions' and 'hypothetical questions'? Write a paragraph each to define these terms.** According to the author, **leading questions ** are questions “that forces or implies a certain type of answer” (3). Leading questions are also closed formatted questions, but these questions must also provide answers that address a wide range of responses and be equally distributed; thereby making all the answers equally likely. A leading question is characterized by the standard answers of t  According to the author, **hypothetical questions ** are questions “which [are] based, at best, on conjecture and, at worst, on fantasy” (3). Hypothetical questions are ill-suited to providing reliable data because each person has a different mental state. Hypothetical questions also forcefully introduce the questioned into situations they may have never considered; thereby creating answers that may not represent an accurate/real opinion. An example of such a question would be “If you were governor, what would you do to stop crime?” (3).
 * 1)  Superb
 * 2)  Excellent
 * 3)  Great
 * 4)  Good
 * 5)  Fair
 * 6)  Not so Great (3)

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