Zone and polygon menus

Shengdong Zhao, Maneesh Agrawala, Ken Hinckley
2006 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems - CHI '06  
We present Zone and Polygon menus, two new variants of multi-stroke marking menus that consider both the relative position and orientation of strokes. Our menus are designed to increase menu breadth over the 8 item limit of status quo orientation-based marking menus. An experiment shows that Zone and Polygon menus can successfully increase breadth by a factor of 2 or more over orientation-based marking menus, while maintaining high selection speed and accuracy. We also discuss hybrid techniques
more » ... that may further increase menu breadth and performance. Our techniques offer UI designers new options for balancing menu breadth and depth against selection speed and accuracy.
doi:10.1145/1124772.1124933 dblp:conf/chi/ZhaoAH06 fatcat:kve2ztgstnh2lnzir7hkpo5rvy