[Sigia-l] Ideal Refresh Rates

[Andrew Boyd]

On 6/27/07, Troy Winfrey <twinfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Flash files are proprietary to the vendor (not my decision) and can't be
> changed, although the images we load and the rate at which we display the
> images can be. From an information design and HCI (visual) perspective, any
> research on what that rate should be? We want people to have enough time to
> decide to click, but also to maximize the precious real estate by displaying
> a broad range of the loaded images. (Users can click on numbers at the
> bottom to advance the slideshow. This is terrible interaction design for a
> number of reasons--there are big Fitts' Law and mental-model issues, for
> starters--but we can't fix that part. Yet.)

Hi Troy,

is bandwidth ever going to be a deciding factor? That is, do you have
a way of handling low bandwidth viewers? This could influence your
decision (i.e. if images take 15 seconds to load, it will be pretty
annoying to set the refresh interval at 10 seconds).

Cheers, Andrew

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