A formal interface design methodology based on user knowledge
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
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
User perceptual mechanisms in the search of computer command menus
CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The mirage rapid interface prototyping system
UIST '88 Proceedings of the 1st annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User Interface Software
SIGDOC '94 Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Systems documentation: technical communications at the great divide
Don't click, paint! Using toggle maps to manipulate sets of toggle switches
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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Categorical menu layouts are currently designed according to conventions and opinions, rather than by employing formal techniques. In this paper we describe a formal methodology for categorically organizing menus. We go on to show how color-coding can be applied to these layouts either to emphasize organization or to provide additional information. The results of a controlled study comparing layouts based on frequency of co-occurrence and similarity show that the formal menu-layout methodology is effective. However, the use of color-coding to identify categories is not supported. Potential reasons for this failure are discussed.