Wen Yin

The Impact of Response Latency and Task Type on Human-LLM Interaction and Perception

Responsiveness in large language model (LLM) applications is widely assumed to be critical, yet the impact of latency on user behavior and perception of output quality has not been systematically explored. We report a controlled experiment varying time-to-first-token latency (2, 9, 20 seconds) across two taxonomy-driv…