Active progress bars: facilitating the switch to temporary activities

Authors:
Christophe Hurter;Audrey Girouard;Nathalie Riche;Catherine Plaisant
Affiliations:
Civil Aviation Research Center, IRIT Toulouse University, Toulouse, France;Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Venue:
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2011

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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.