Leaf menus: Linear menus with stroke shortcuts for small handheld devices

Anne Roudaut, Gilles Bailly, Eric Lecolinet, Laurence Nigay

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Abstract

This paper presents Leaf menu, a new type of contextual linear menu that supports curved gesture shortcuts. By providing an alternative to keyboard shortcuts, the Leaf menus can be used for the selection of commands on tabletops, but its key benefit is its adequacy to small handheld touchscreen devices (PDA, Smartphone). Indeed Leaf menus define a compact and known layout inherited from linear menus, they support precise finger interaction, they manage occlusion and they can be used in close proximity to the screen borders. Moreover, by providing stroke shortcuts, they favour the selection of frequent commands in expert mode and make eye-free selection possible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009 - 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
Pages616-619
Number of pages4
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2009 - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: 24 Aug 200928 Aug 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume5726 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2009
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period24/08/0928/08/09

Keywords

  • Menu techniques
  • Mobile devices
  • One-handed interaction

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