Ephemeral adaptation: the use of gradual onset to improve menu selection performance

Authors:
Leah Findlater;Karyn Moffatt;Joanna McGrenere;Jessica Dawson
Affiliations:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We introduce ephemeral adaptation, a new adaptive GUI technique that improves performance by reducing visual search time while maintaining spatial consistency. Ephemeral adaptive interfaces employ gradual onset to draw the user's attention to predicted items: adaptively predicted items appear abruptly when the menu is opened, but non-predicted items fade in gradually. To demonstrate the benefit of ephemeral adaptation we conducted two experiments with a total of 48 users to show: (1) that ephemeral adaptive menus are faster than static menus when accuracy is high, and are not significantly slower when it is low and (2) that ephemeral adaptive menus are also faster than adaptive highlighting. While we focused on user-adaptive GUIs, ephemeral adaptation should be applicable to a broad range of visually complex tasks.