CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Split menus: effectively using selection frequency to organize menus
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
The design and evaluation of marking menus
The design and evaluation of marking menus
Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Selection from alphabetic and numeric menu trees using a touch screen: breadth, depth, and width
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
An evaluation of space-filling information visualizations for depicting hierarchical structures
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
RSVP Browser: Web Browsing on Small Screen Devices
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Evaluation of web usage mining approaches for user's next request prediction
WIDM '03 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
"Beating" Fitts' law: virtual enhancements for pointing facilitation
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: Fitts law 50 years later: Applications and contributions from human-computer interaction
Don't take my folders away!: organizing personal information to get ghings done
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Searching to eliminate personal information management
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Improved search engines and navigation preference in personal information management
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Improving visual search with image segmentation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ephemeral adaptation: the use of gradual onset to improve menu selection performance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An Empirical Analysis of Personal Digital Document Structures
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2009 on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
The effect of folder structure on personal file navigation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
AccessRank: predicting what users will do next
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How do we find personal files?: the effect of OS, presentation & depth on file navigation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Navigating through a file hierarchy is one of the most common methods for accessing files, yet it can be slow and repetitive. New algorithms that predict upcoming file accesses have the potential to improve navigation-based file retrieval, but it is unknown how best to present their predictions to users. We present three design goals aiming to improve navigation-based file retrieval interfaces: minimise the time spent at each hierarchical level en route to the target file; reduce the number of levels traversed by providing shortcuts; and promote rehearsal of the retrieval mechanics to facilitate expertise. We introduce three interfaces that augment standard file browsers based on each of these goals: Icon Highlights give greater prominence to predicted items in the current folder; Hover Menus provide shortcuts to predicted folder content; and Search Directed Navigation uses predictive highlighting to guide users through the hierarchy in response to query terms. Results from a user evaluation show that all three interfaces improve file retrieval times, with Icon Highlights and Hover Menus best suited for frequently accessed items and Search Directed Navigation best suited for infrequent ones. We also show that the benefits are larger when folder content is spatially unstable. Finally, we discuss how the interfaces could be combined and deployed in existing file browsers.