The hotbox: Efficient access to a large number of menu-items

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 231-237

  Kurtenbach, Gordon ^a   Fitzmaurice, George W ^a   Owen, Russell N ^a   Baudel, T ^a  

^a Alias I Wavefront   (Canada)

Author keywords

Marking menus; Menubars; Menus access; Transparency; Two handed input

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; DESIGN RATIONALE; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MARKING MENU; MENUBARS; MENUS ACCESS; TOOLBARS; TWO-HANDED INPUT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TRANSPARENCY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

MARKING MENUS; MENUBARS;

EID: 0032684942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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