Why it's quick to be square: Modelling new and existing hierarchical menu designs

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1371-1380

  Ahlström, David ^a   Cockburn, Andy ^b   Gutwin, Carl ^c   Irani, Pourang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

hierarchical menus; menus; performance models.

Indexed keywords

DECISION TIME; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HCI DESIGN; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MENU DESIGN; MODEL-BASED; NEW HIGH; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PIE MENUS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TOOLBARS; VISUAL SEARCH;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 77953970046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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