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Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus

Tsandilas, T. and schraefel, m. c. (2007) Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-Down Menus. In: CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors, April 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. 1195- 1204.

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Abstract

This paper introduces bubbling menus, a new design for pull-down cascading menus. Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor [1] with directional mouse-gesture tech-niques to facilitate the access of certain items in a menu, such as frequently selected items. Through an extensive iterative design process, we explore bubbling menus in the context of adaptive and customizable user interfaces. Un-like other adaptation and customization techniques such as split menus, bubbling menus do not disrupt the original structure of menus and enable the activation of menus far from a menu bar. Results from two evaluation studies pre-sented in the paper show that bubbling menus provide an effective alternative to accelerate menu selections tasks

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:
Theophanis Tsandilas
m.c. schraefel
Keywords:Adaptive/-able user interfaces, customization, cascading menus, mouse gestures.
Research Group:Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Current ECS Groups > Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Date:2007
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ID Code:13320
Last Modified:23 Sep 2011 10:34
Deposited On:15 Jan 2007 by schraefel, monica

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