Design issues related to pie menus for 5-way joysticks

  • Authors:
  • Tuomas Vaittinen;Timo-Pekka Viljamaa;Petri Piippo

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Mobility '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Although linear textual menus are a widely adopted solution in the mobile phone user interfaces, alternatives that would take smaller amount of screen real estate exist, e.g. toolbars and pie menus. Pie menus also provide access to functions with fewer key presses than traditional Options menu but are best suited for expert users. We compared toolbars and pie menus as a way to access most often used functions of a mobile media player. Based on user test results, we selected pie menus for implementation into a prototype and made another user test to see what kind of design considerations are related to pie menus for digital joysticks. The user feedback was positive and six design issues were identified.