An automated routine for menu structure optimization

EICS'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-76

  Goubko, Mikhail V ^a   Danilenko, Alexander I ^a  

^a TRAPEZNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CONTROL SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Depth vs. breadth; Menu design automation; Menu of mobile device; Menu driven system; Optimal hierarchy; Usability

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SEARCH TIME; COMMAND MENU; DEPTH VS. BREADTH; MENU DESIGN; MENU NAVIGATION; MENU-DRIVEN SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL HIERARCHY; STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE DEVICES; NAVIGATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77955101710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822018.1822030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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