Active progress bars: facilitating the switch to temporary activities
| Title | Active progress bars: facilitating the switch to temporary activities |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Hurter C, Girouard A, Riche N, Plaisant C |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems |
| Date Published | 2011/// |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-0268-5 |
| Keywords | Frustration, participatory design, progress bars, task switching |
| Abstract | In this paper, we seek to find a better way of effective task management when a progress bar interrupts user's primary activity. We propose to augment progress bars with user controlled functionalities facilitating the switch to temporary activities. We detail a taxonomy of waiting period contexts and possible temporary tasks, then report on 5 participatory design, and a follow-up survey of 96 respondents. Finally we describe an early prototype of active progress bars, and report on initial use. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1979742.1979883 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1979742.1979883 |