MenuOptimizer: Interactive optimization of menu systems

UIST 2013 - Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 331-341

  Bailly, Gilles ^a   Oulasvirta, Antti ^a   Kötzing, Timo ^a   Hoppe, Sabrina ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interactive optimization; Menus; Predictive models

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; INTERACTIVE OPTIMIZATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MENUS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; USER PERFORMANCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84887576826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2501988.2502024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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