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Subject:RE: Can software have human attributes? From:"Tom Johnson" <johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:06:59 -0400
Sitting and waiting aren't necessarily personification. But, I'd say
something like the program "pauses" until the next active result....
What I would try to do is to avoid personification, but to still convey to
the user that they may have to wait a few seconds or minutes. "Polls"
doesn't give the user any idea of how long it will take before something
happens. Pick a verb that people understand and represents what they will
experience, not necessarily what goes on behind the scenes.
Tom Johnson
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Elk Rapids Engineering/Star Cutter Company
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