Question 5: What is the Robot Doing Right Now?
Have you ever wondered what some software is doing as you wait patiently for it to return from some opaque processing?
INTEGRAT lets the user read the mind of the robot with Cursors and Icons that truly reflect the internal state of the software. Instead of the uninformative hour-glass cursor, INTEGRAT uses several new cursors, each of which describes an internal state. In this way, the user is still waiting, but they are kept informed of "what is the robot doing right now?"
