Approach for reducing menu access time by enabling bidirectional cursor movement within nested menu(s)

Authors:
Ajay Jain
Affiliations:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, Noida, India
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2011

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Optimizing feature-access time through dynamic updates to application menu layout

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

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Abstract

There is a time value associated with the action an application user must perform to traverse menu items to reach a specific option. The time value increases when menu options are arranged within multiple nested menus. This work proposes a new menu layout that helps reduce the time required to traverse menus, especially those with multiple levels of nesting. This work also includes the results of a statistical experiment that measures the time taken to traverse using the suggested approach. The results are compared with the time taken to traverse using the traditional menu layout. Experimental data (under pre-defined assumptions) seems to significantly favor the proposed approach. The work presents data samples, assumptions, and limitations of the proposed approach.