TY - GEN
T1 - Simple vs. Compound mark hierarchical marking menus
AU - Zhao, Shengdong
AU - Balakrishnan, Ravin
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PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We present a variant of hierarchical marking menus where items are selected using a series of inflection-free simple marks, rather than the single "zig-zag" compound mark used in the traditional design. Theoretical analysis indicates that this simple mark approach has the potential to significantly increase the number of items in a marking menu that can be selected efficiently and accurately. A user experiment is presented that compares the simple and compound mark techniques. Results show that the simple mark technique allows for significantly more accurate and faster menu selections overall, but most importantly also in menus with a large number of items where performance of the compound mark technique is particularly poor. The simple mark technique also requires significantly less physical input space to perform the selections, making it particularly suitable for small footprint pen-based input devices. Visual design alternatives are also discussed. Copyright © 2004 ACM.
AB - We present a variant of hierarchical marking menus where items are selected using a series of inflection-free simple marks, rather than the single "zig-zag" compound mark used in the traditional design. Theoretical analysis indicates that this simple mark approach has the potential to significantly increase the number of items in a marking menu that can be selected efficiently and accurately. A user experiment is presented that compares the simple and compound mark techniques. Results show that the simple mark technique allows for significantly more accurate and faster menu selections overall, but most importantly also in menus with a large number of items where performance of the compound mark technique is particularly poor. The simple mark technique also requires significantly less physical input space to perform the selections, making it particularly suitable for small footprint pen-based input devices. Visual design alternatives are also discussed. Copyright © 2004 ACM.
KW - Marking menus
KW - Pie menus
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U2 - 10.1145/1029632.1029639
DO - 10.1145/1029632.1029639
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
T3 - UIST: Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Softaware and Technology
SP - 33
EP - 42
BT - UIST: Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - UIST: Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Y2 - 24 October 2004 through 27 October 2004
ER -