Investigating the Necessity of Delay in Marking Menu Invocation

Henderson, Jay; Malacria, Sylvain; Nancel, Mathieu; Lank, Edward

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/3313831.3376296

Title :

Investigating the Necessity of Delay in Marking Menu Invocation

Author(s) :

Henderson, Jay [Auteur]
Cheriton School of Computer Science [Waterloo] [CS]
Malacria, Sylvain [Auteur]

Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Nancel, Mathieu [Auteur]

Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Lank, Edward [Auteur]
Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Cheriton School of Computer Science [Waterloo] [CS]

Conference title :

CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

City :

Honolulu

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2020-04-25

Publication date :

2020-05-25

English keyword(s) :

marking menu
delay

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

English abstract : [en]

Delayed display of menu items is a core design component of marking menus, arguably to prevent visual distraction and foster the use of mark mode. We investigate these assumptions , by contrasting the original marking menu ...
Show more >Delayed display of menu items is a core design component of marking menus, arguably to prevent visual distraction and foster the use of mark mode. We investigate these assumptions , by contrasting the original marking menu design with immediately-displayed marking menus. In three controlled experiments, we fail to reveal obvious and systematic performance or usability advantages to using delay and mark mode. Only in very constrained settings-after significant training and only two items to learn-did traditional marking menus show a time improvement of about 260 ms. Otherwise, we found an overall decrease in performance with delay, whether participants exhibited practiced or unpracticed behaviour. Our final study failed to demonstrate that an immediately-displayed menu interface is more visually disrupting than a delayed menu. These findings inform the costs and benefits of incorporating delay in marking menus, and motivate guidelines for situations in which its use is desirable.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

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