TY - GEN
T1 - Improving menu interaction for cluttered tabletop setups with user-drawn path menus
AU - Leithinger, Daniel
AU - Haller, Michael
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Many digital tabletop systems have a graphical user interface (GUI) that features context (or pop-up) menus. While linear and pie menus are commonly used for direct pen and touch interaction, their appearance can be problematic on a digital tabletop display, where physical objects might occlude menu items. We propose a user-drawn path menu, that appears along a custom path to avoid such occlusions. This paper introduces four different metaphors for user-drawn context menus: the Fan Out Menu, the Card Deck Menu, the Pearl String Menu, and the Trail Menu. It also presents the results we acquired from a user study, where participants were able to work faster when using our user-drawn menus, on cluttered tabletop setups.
AB - Many digital tabletop systems have a graphical user interface (GUI) that features context (or pop-up) menus. While linear and pie menus are commonly used for direct pen and touch interaction, their appearance can be problematic on a digital tabletop display, where physical objects might occlude menu items. We propose a user-drawn path menu, that appears along a custom path to avoid such occlusions. This paper introduces four different metaphors for user-drawn context menus: the Fan Out Menu, the Card Deck Menu, the Pearl String Menu, and the Trail Menu. It also presents the results we acquired from a user study, where participants were able to work faster when using our user-drawn menus, on cluttered tabletop setups.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=47949106269&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TABLETOP.2007.12
DO - 10.1109/TABLETOP.2007.12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47949106269
SN - 0769530133
SN - 9780769530130
T3 - Tabletop 2007 - 2nd Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems
SP - 79
EP - 86
BT - Tabletop 2007 - 2nd Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems
T2 - 2nd Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, Tabletop 2007
Y2 - 10 October 2007 through 12 October 2007
ER -