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An Improvement on the Progress Bar: Make It a Story, Make It a Game

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Progress bars provide progress information for users while waiting. Given that users dislike waiting, shortening users’ time perception and improving their tolerance for waiting are essential for the design of progress bars. This study investigated the impact of progress bar decorations on users’ time perception and tolerance for waiting. Within the context of loading articles, the results from experiment one showed that unpredictable decorations above progress bars significantly increased participants’ tolerance for waiting. Experiment two provided a context for software installation and revealed that participants perceived significantly shorter waiting time and maintained a higher tolerance for waiting while playing games, compared to watching game videos. These findings provide an innovative idea for the design of the progress bar - make it a story, make it a game, which can be used in various situations to greatly improve user experience.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Wenmin Li, Manhua Wang, Wei Li, Beibei Cai & Yaoxi Shi

  2. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Manhua Wang

  3. Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Wei Li

  4. Social Science Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Yaoxi Shi

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Li, W., Wang, M., Li, W., Cai, B., Shi, Y. (2020). An Improvement on the Progress Bar: Make It a Story, Make It a Game. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51828-8_51

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