Response time is the time that a system takes to react to a given input.
Human response (reaction) time
Supposed human perception of various delays between user-supplied input and output:
|
Delay |
User reaction |
|---|---|
|
0—100ms |
Instant |
|
100—300ms |
Small perceptible delay |
|
300—1000ms |
Machine is working |
|
1000ms—10000ms |
Likely mental context switch |
|
>10000ms |
Task is abandoned |
I took this (rather questionable) table off the slides for the Web-based Systems lecture at my university. I want to find the source of it as well as some explanation to where these values come from. So far all I've found was this weird article on German Wikipedia.
TODO: investigate this topic further