Improving menu interaction: A comparison of standard, force enhanced and Jumping Menus

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1067-1076

  Ahlström, David ^a   Alexandrowicz, Rainer ^a   Hitz, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cascading pull down menus; Force fields; Interaction models; Menu enhancement; Prediction models

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CASCADING PULL-DOWN MENUS; FORCE FIELDS; INTERACTION MODELS; MENU ENHANCEMENT; PREDICTION MODELS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 33745852829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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