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The instructional aims of this exercise is to help the literacy students grasp the arbitrary nature of a graphic user interface and empowers them to pass judgement on it as consumers of technology, while engaging computer science students in the challenge of communicating with users. User feedback from the literacy students focuses on two aspects of using the interfaces: the pragmatic question of making each perform and their conceptual effectiveness. Students who figured out how to run an interface were generally able to find a file (pragmatic aspect) . Students who found the interface easy to learn tended to have positive feelings about it as a model, as well (conceptual aspect) . CPSC 150 students picking GUIs to evaluate chose PowerPoint simulations over other GUIs created in other technologies by a ratio of 3 to 1. Comments on positive and negative aspects of the GUIs reveal a wide range of opinions and reasons for them, with a tendency to stress either aesthetics (appearance, fun, originality, etc.) or utility (efficiency, speed, few distractions, etc.) .  \n1.0 Introduction  \nIn this work, we report on a collaborative instructional project in which 100 students in a computing literacy service course, CPSC 150, tested out and commented on graphic user interfaces, GUI, projects created by computer science students taking a human computer interaction, HCI, course CPSC 270.  \nCPSC 270 Students  \nRationale for Exercise  \nThe goal for the computer science students in the user interface class is to get some direct experience of feedback from users without investing a substantial effort in programming. To make sure the task stayed focused on conceptual challenges, not programming, students were allowed to work in groups, if they desired, and to implement their  \ninterfaces as simple mock-ups using hypertext links in MS PowerPoint to simulate state transitions. Students who preferred to use other technology were allowed to do so.  \nProcedure  \nStudents were given the assignment of creating a non-traditional user interface for navigating a traditional, hierarchical file system. In fact they were forbidden to use yellow folders, in particular, to represent directories containing other directions and/or files. The scope of the job was to allow users to explore a file system with at least a few nested directories, and to be able to locate at least one file in the file system.  \nCPSC 150 instructor, Lynda Williams, visited the CPSC 270 class to describe the assignment and given a demonstration of how to mock up their interfaces in MS PowerPoint. PowerPoint can simulate an interface design by setting slide transition off and attaching hypertext links to objects that jump to another slide in the set. In this fashion, each slide can stand in for one of the cards, and each hypertext-linked object isan active part of the screen. The purpose of using PowerPoint was to maximize the ratio of conceptual effort to programming effort by making the actual construction of the GUI simulation very simple. However, students who wished to use alternative technologies were not prohibited from doing so, as long as the resulting GUI would be able to be accessed via the CPSC 150’s students’WebCT course shell on the web.  \nThe actual assignment was stated to the CPSC 270 students as follows:  \nModel a file system with at least five directories and one file. The user’s job is to find the file my navigating the file system. 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