Wave menus: improving the novice mode of hierarchical marking menus

  • Authors:
  • Gilles Bailly;Eric Lecolinet;Laurence Nigay

  • Affiliations:
  • LIG, University of Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France and GET, ENST, CNRS, UMR, Paris, France;GET, ENST, CNRS, UMR, Paris, France;LIG, University of Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present Wave menus, a variant of multi-stroke marking menus designed for improving the novice mode of marking while preserving their efficiency in the expert mode of marking. Focusing on the novice mode, a criteria-based analysis of existing marking menus motivates the design of Wave menus. Moreover a user experiment is presented that compares four hierarchical marking menus in novice mode. Results show that Wave and compound-stroke menus are significantly faster and more accurate than multi-stroke menus in novice mode, while it has been shown that in expert mode the multistroke menus and therefore the Wave menus outperform the compound-stroke menus. Wave menus also require significantly less screen space than compound-stroke menus. As a conclusion, Wave menus offer the best performance for both novice and expert modes in comparison with existing multi-level marking menus, while requiring less screen space than compound-stroke menus.