Abstract
We present Wave menus, a variant of multi-stroke marking menus designed for improving the novice mode of marking while preserving their efficiency in the expert mode of marking. Focusing on the novice mode, a criteria-based analysis of existing marking menus motivates the design of Wave menus. Moreover a user experiment is presented that compares four hierarchical marking menus in novice mode. Results show that Wave and compound-stroke menus are significantly faster and more accurate than multi-stroke menus in novice mode, while it has been shown that in expert mode the multi-stroke menus and therefore the Wave menus outperform the compound-stroke menus. Wave menus also require significantly less screen space than compound-stroke menus. As a conclusion, Wave menus offer the best performance for both novice and expert modes in comparison with existing multi-level marking menus, while requiring less screen space than compound-stroke menus.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Callahan, J., Hopkins, D., Weiser, M., Shneiderman, B.: An empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 95–100 (1988)
Guimbretière, F., Martin, A., Winograd, T.: Benefits of merging command selection and direct manipulation. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact, 460–476 (2005)
Howes, A.: A model of the acquisition of menu knowledge by exploration. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, pp. 445–451 (1994)
Kieger, J.I.: The depth/breadth tradeoff in the design of menu driven interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 20, 201–213 (1984)
Linton, F., Joy, D., Schaefer, A.: Building user and expert models by long term observation of application usage. In: Conference on User Modeling, vol. 3. pp. 129–138 (1999)
Kurtenbach, G. P.: The Design and Evaluation of Marking Menus. Doctoral Thesis. UMI Order Number: UMI Order No. GAXNN-82896., University of Toronto (1993)
Kurtenbach, G., Buxton, W.: User learning and performance with marking menus. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 258–264 (1994)
Kurtenbach, G., Buxton, W.: The Limits of Expert Performance using Hiearchical Marking Menus. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 35–42 (1993)
Lecolinet, E.: A molecular architecture for creating advanced GUIs. In: ACM UIST Symposium on User interface Software and Technology, pp. 135–144 (2003)
Norman, K.: The Psychology of Menu selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface. Ablex Publishing Corporation (1991)
Pook, S., Lecolinet, E., Vaysseix, G., Barillot, E.: Control menus: excecution and control in a single interactor. In: ACM CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 263–264 (2000)
Rekimoto, J., Ishizawa, T., Schwesig, C., Oba, H.: Presense: Interaction techniques for finger sensing input devices. In: ACM UIST Symposium on User interface Software and Technology, pp. 203–212 (2003)
Sellen, A., Kurtenbach, G., Buxton, W.: The prevention of mode errors through sensory feedback. Journal of Human Computer Interaction 7(2), 141–146 (1992)
Shneiderman, B.: Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Reading (1986)
Zhao, S., Agrawala, M., Hinckley, K.: Zone and polygon menus: using relative position to increase the breadth of multi-stroke marking menus. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1077–1086 (2006)
Zhao, S., Balakrishnan, R.: Simple vs. compound mark hierarchical marking menus. In: ACM UIST Symposium on User interface Software and Technology, pp. 33–42 (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bailly, G., Lecolinet, E., Nigay, L. (2007). Wave Menus: Improving the Novice Mode of Hierarchical Marking Menus. In: Baranauskas, C., Palanque, P., Abascal, J., Barbosa, S.D.J. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007. INTERACT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74796-3_45
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74796-3_45
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-74794-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-74796-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)