Daniel Engber: How the progress bar keeps you sane
ダニエル・エンバー: 私たちを安心させてくれるプログレスバー
Daniel Engber explores science and culture as an award-winning journalist for Radiolab, the New York Times, Slate and Wired, among others. Full bio
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デスクの前で退屈していますか?
and how many weeks a year
一年間のうちの何週間
the Progress Bar]
プログレスバーについて語る]
an indicator on a computer
コンピュータの表示の一つで
inside the device.
何かが起きていることを示すものです
for years is a horizontal bar.
横棒の形をしています
to pre-computer versions of this
出てくる前の時代に遡ります
a horizontal bar from left to right
左から右に塗りつぶして
they had completed at a factory.
表していたことに由来します
スクリーンに表示されるものと同じです
to as "the software crisis,"
と呼ばれる出来事があり
were getting more complicated
人々が予想していなかったほど
had been prepared for,
indicators in different ways.
進捗率が使われてきました
countdown clock,
from left to right on a screen.
並んでいくものがありました
a systematic survey of these things
誰も体系的に調査したことがなく
the user's experience
ユーザーへの影響を
was giving you the accurate percent done.
重要ではないということでした
that it was there at all.
そこに示されているという事実でした
made people feel better,
人々は安心したのです
about what this thing could do.
relax effectively.
to turn away from their machine
計算機から離れ
of exactly the right duration.
"Oh, the progress bar is half done.
「あぁ 半分終わったのか
to send this fax,"
このFAXを送ろう」とか
しようとしたかもしれません
in a tractor beam,
that you're seeing unfold in front of you:
エキサイティングなストーリーに変わります
waiting in frustration
あなたはコンピュータの動作を
あぁ 素晴らしいことが起きている!」
about the progress bar
about dulling the pain of waiting,
around with the psychology.
that just moves at a constant rate --
一定のスピードで動いている場合
what's happening in the computer --
実際の動作状況を表しているとしても
like it's slowing down.
trying to enhance it
more quickly than it really is,
速く動いているかのように見せようとし
like a burst of speed.
"Oh! Something's really happening!"
と感じるでしょう
naturalistic growth of the progress bar
プログレスバーを実際の速度に
on the passage of time --
注意を払っているという想定で
waiting for it to boil,
見たいという心理を想定したうえで
to make that less boring,
感覚を持たせます
it mitigates the fear of death.
死への恐れも和らげると思います
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Daniel Engber - JournalistDaniel Engber explores science and culture as an award-winning journalist for Radiolab, the New York Times, Slate and Wired, among others.
Why you should listen
Daniel Engber's scientific method of distracting free-throw shooters in the NBA appeared in the New York Times Magazine's "Year in Ideas" and his viral website, Crying While Eating, earned spots on "The Tonight Show," VH1 and National Public Radio. He studied literature at Harvard College and neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco and has won several awards for his writing, including the National Academies of Science Communication Award in 2012.
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