Untangling the usability of fisheye menus

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Hornbæk, Kasper ^a   Hertzum, Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fisheye menus; Focus+context interfaces; Hierarchical menus; Information visualization; Menu selection

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION; WEB BROWSERS;

CONTEXT INTERFACES; FISHEYE MENUS; HIERARCHICAL MENUS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MENU SELECTION;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548444971     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1275511.1275512     Document Type: Article

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