A menu system often serves as the core interaction workhorse of an application. We have researched and productized a few solutions that enhance the user’s experience. Most notably is the marking-menu which allows a user to perform a menu selection by either popping-up a radial menu or by quickly making a straight mark in the direction of the desired menu without popping-up the menu. Other investigations have focused on providing efficient access to a large number of menu-items (the HotBox), menus for pen computers (tracking menus), for rapid tool switching (pieCursor) and multitouch environments (multitouch marking menus).
Julian Lepinski, Tovi Grossman & George Fitzmaurice. (2010).
The design and evaluation of multitouch marking menus
CHI 2010 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
pp. 2233-2242.
George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka, Azam Khan, Michael Glueck & Gord Kurtenbach. (2008).
PieCursor: Merging Pointing and Command Selection for Rapid In-place Tool Switching
CHI 2008 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
pp. 1361-1370.
George Fitzmaurice, Azam Khan, Rob Pieké, Bill Buxton & Gord Kurtenbach. (2003).
Tracking Menus
UIST 2003 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology.
pp. 71-79.
Gord Kurtenbach, George Fitzmaurice, Russel Owen & Thomas Baudel. (1999).
The Hotbox: efficient access to a large number of menu-items
CHI 1999 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
pp. 231-237.
Mark Tapia & Gord Kurtenbach. (1995).
Some Design Refinements and Principles on the Appearance and Behavior of Marking Menus
UIST 1995 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology.
pp. 189-195.
Gord Kurtenbach & Bill Buxton. (1993).
The Limits of Expert Performance Using Hierarchic Marking Menus
CHI 1993 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
pp. 482-487.
Gord Kurtenbach, Abigail Sellen & Bill Buxton. (1993).
An Empirical Evaluation of Some Articulatory and Cognitive Aspects of Marking Menus
Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
March 1993, 8(1).
pp. 1-23.
Rob Pieké
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