An empirical comparison of Pie vs. Linear menus

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn Part F130202, Issue , 1988, Pages 95-100

  Callahan, Jack ^a   Hopkins, Don ^a   Weiser, Mark ^a,b   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional selection; Empirical studies; Menus; User interface

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER DISPLAY; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; DRIFT DISTANCE; EMPIRICAL - COMPARISONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MENUS; RADIAL DISTANCE; TARGET SELECTION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84951393263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/57167.57182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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