Re: Interractive Response Time

Hall, I was hoping no one will introduce the complexity of this thread but
here we are, U just opened the can of worms :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: RE: Interractive Response Time


>
> Jerry.
>
> > I think there have been studies about response
>
> I got about this far and lost interest ;-)
>
> > time.  Human
> > (users that is, not IT folk) minds tend to wander if
> > response time is longer than 2 seconds so productivity
> > drops.
>
> Also found is that there is a big difference between machine response time
(as measured by timers in the code) and user perceived 'wall time' (as
measured by looking at the clock on the wall)
>
> --phil
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