Active progress bar: aiding the switch to temporary activities

Authors:
Christophe Hurter;Benjamin R. Cowan;Audrey Girouard;Nathalie Henry Riche
Affiliations:
University of Toulouse, ENAC, IRIT, Toulouse, France;University of Birmingham, Edgbaston;Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Venue:
BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Can we design an interface to help people make use of the idle time spent looking at progress bars? We propose to augment progress bars with user-controlled functionalities facilitating the switch to temporary activities. We propose a taxonomy of waiting period contexts and possible temporary tasks, then report on participatory design sessions, and a follow-up survey. Finally we describe an early prototype of active progress bar and report a small controlled experiment used to identify the impact of the tool on primary task satisfaction. The findings suggest that Active Progress Bars lead to significantly higher satisfaction when compared to a control condition.