Imagine you are an employee for Camacho Designs (CD), which…

Imagine you are an employee for Camacho Designs (CD), which is involved in manufacturing gear shifts for cars; if you are unfamiliar with gear shifts, they are usually joystick-like handles that allow the driver of the car to shift between Drive, Reverse, Park, and Neutral. On this particular job, however, you have been assigned to infiltrate and sabotage the designs of Camacho’s arch-rival Estevez Futures (EF) new gear shift. First, define semantic distance, and then give two ways you might sabotage EF’s designs by increasing the semantic distance involved in using their gear shift. One of these two ways should sabotage the interface for novices, and the other should sabotage the interface for experts. Then, define articulatory distance, and then give one way you might sabotage EF’s designs by increasing the articulatory distance involved in using their gear shift. Finally, assuming you were able to implement all three of your nefarious designs, describe the result in terms of direct engagement and invisible interfaces. Your description can be short, but make sure it reflects a correct understanding of both direct engagement and invisible interfaces. Note that there is no one single right answer to this question. There are many possible ways you might sabotage their designs, and many effects that sabotage might have. Our objective with this question is to evaluate whether the approaches you propose align with the corresponding notions of distance.

Welcome to Quiz 2! This quiz consists of five questions. Rem…

Welcome to Quiz 2! This quiz consists of five questions. Remember, the goal of this quiz is to assess your correct understanding of course concepts. You are not expected to go into great depth on these topics; you need only provide enough depth to demonstrate that you know the concept. You are encourage to break your answer into paragraphs and to use Canvas’s rich text formatting options. You can use bold, italics, and underline to emphasize your primary points. The expectation is that you should not need the entire time to complete this quiz; we expect each question to be adequately answerable in around twelve sentences, broken into three to four short paragraphs. We recommend structuring your answer to follow the prompt: generally, one paragraph per paragraph in the prompt, or one shorter paragraph per term from a list of terms to define. We encourage you to answer in paragraphs, but answering in bulleted lists and outlines can also be acceptable; we just find that paragraphs lend themselves to more thorough definitions and applied examples. You will not be penalized for using an outline format, but make sure you’re including as much demonstration of your understanding as you would in a free text response. Pay special attention to the bolded words in each question, as they are intended to drive your focus to what each question aims to assess. Remember, you can access additional formatting options by clicking the three dots above the text box: