Wave menus: Improving the novice mode of hierarchical marking menus

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Abstract

We present Wave menus, a variant of multi-stroke marking menus designed for improving the novice mode of marking while preserving their efficiency in the expert mode of marking. Focusing on the novice mode, a criteria-based analysis of existing marking menus motivates the design of Wave menus. Moreover a user experiment is presented that compares four hierarchical marking menus in novice mode. Results show that Wave and compound-stroke menus are significantly faster and more accurate than multi-stroke menus in novice mode, while it has been shown that in expert mode the multi-stroke menus and therefore the Wave menus outperform the compound-stroke menus. Wave menus also require significantly less screen space than compound-stroke menus. As a conclusion, Wave menus offer the best performance for both novice and expert modes in comparison with existing multi-level marking menus, while requiring less screen space than compound-stroke menus.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2007 - 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages475-488
Number of pages14
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)9783540747949
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: 10 Sept 200714 Sept 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume4662 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period10/09/0714/09/07

Keywords

  • Marking menus
  • Novice mode
  • Wave menus

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