Visual menu techniques

G Bailly, E Lecolinet, L Nigay - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Menus are used for exploring and selecting commands in interactive applications. They are
widespread in current systems and used by a large variety of users. As a consequence, they …

System and method for issuing commands based on pen motions on a graphical keyboard

S Zhai, PO Kristensson - US Patent 7,487,461, 2009 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A command pattern recognition system based on a virtual keyboard layout
combines pattern recognition with a virtual, graphical, or on-screen keyboard to provide a …

[PDF][PDF] Object pointing: a complement to bitmap pointing in GUIs

Y Guiard, R Blanch… - … of Graphics Interface …, 2004 - perso.telecom-paristech.fr
Pointing has been conceptualized and implemented so far as the act of selecting pixels in
bitmap displays. We show that the current technique, which we call bitmap pointing (BMP), is …

Modeling and improving selection in cascading pull-down menus using Fitts' law, the steering law and force fields

D Ahlström - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Selecting a menu item in a cascading pull-down menu is a frequent but time consuming and
complex GUI task. This paper describes an approach aimed to support the user during …

Command strokes with and without preview: using pen gestures on keyboard for command selection

PO Kristensson, S Zhai - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a new command selection method that provides an alternative to pull-
down menus in pen-based mobile interfaces. Its primary advantage is the ability forusers to …

Looking my way through the menu: the impact of menu design and multimodal input on gaze-based menu selection

Y Kammerer, K Scheiter, W Beinhauer - … of the 2008 Symposium on Eye …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
In this paper a study is reported, which investigates the effectiveness of two approaches to
improving gaze-based interaction for realistic and complex menu selection tasks. The first …

Why it's quick to be square: modelling new and existing hierarchical menu designs

D Ahlström, A Cockburn, C Gutwin, P Irani - Proceedings of the sigchi …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We consider different hierarchical menu and toolbar-like interface designs from a theoretical
perspective and show how a model based on visual search time, pointing time, decision …

Advanced investigation of steering performance with error-accepting delays

T Hidaka, Y Sei, N Nishida, S Yamanaka… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Steering Law is a robust model to predict the movement time (MT) for steering
through a constrained path, and the most representative example in human-computer …

Improving menu interaction: a comparison of standard, force enhanced and jum** menus

D Ahlström, R Alexandrowicz, M Hitz - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we show how a model centered analysis of the usage of the mouse click
interaction action in graphical user interfaces can be used to create a new menu system …

Bubbling menus: a selective mechanism for accessing hierarchical drop-down menus

T Tsandilas, MC Schraefel - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for cascading drop-down menus.
Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [10] with directional mouse-gesture techniques …