The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces¶
Myers. (1985). The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin.
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- Progress Indicator
- The seminal case is the file-copy percent-done bar; the value of percent-done bars in general was established empirically by Brad Myers, with database-query tasks, in his 1985 CHI paper, "The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces."
This sourceMyers's CHI '85 paper setting out the case for percent-done progress indicators and testing it experimentally. Experiment in which 86% of subjects said they liked percent-done indicators and ratings favoured the versions that had them, with lowered anxiety argued as an important benefit.
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- The seminal case is the file-copy percent-done bar; the value of percent-done bars in general was established empirically by Brad Myers, with database-query tasks, in his 1985 CHI paper, "The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces."
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- Brad Myers's study "The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces" (CHI, 1985) had users perform tasks with and without a progress bar during waits and found they strongly preferred having the indicator — even when it did not make the operation any faster and in some conditions made it marginally slower
This sourceThe experiment result that people prefer to have percent-done progress indicators.
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“One part of the experiment demonstrates that people prefer to have progress indicators.”
- Brad Myers's study "The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces" (CHI, 1985) had users perform tasks with and without a progress bar during waits and found they strongly preferred having the indicator — even when it did not make the operation any faster and in some conditions made it marginally slower
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