A predictive model of menu performance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 627-636

  Cockburn, Andy ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^b   Greenberg, Saul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Fitts' Law; Hick Hyman Law; Menus; Performance modelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HICK HYMAN LAW; PERFORMANCE MODELING;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 35348836736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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