SAM: the Swiss Army Menu

  • Authors:
  • David Bonnet;Caroline Appert

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris-Sud - INRIA - CNRS, Orsay, France;Université Paris-Sud - CNRS - INRIA, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • 23rd French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This article introduces the Swiss Army Menu (SAM), a radial menu that enables a very large number of functions on a single small tactile screen. The design of SAM relies on four different kinds of items, support for navigating in hierarchies of items and a control based on small thumb movements. SAM can thus offer a set of functions so large that it would typically have required a number of widgets that could not have been displayed in a single viewport at the same time.