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Pop-up menus enable more efficient interface operation. Inspired from empirical inference, observation, and literature reviews, this study investigated the operation efficiency of pop-up menus through examining human’s superior physical characteristics of visual search and mouse movement. A new style of menu type, Elliptic-Pie Menu, was proposed and examined on operation efficiency against traditional linear menus and (circular) pie menus while different item lengths were also analyzed. The study revealed: (1) Menu type is a significant factor of the operation efficiency; (2) Short items turn out to be more efficient than long items do; (3) Linear Menu presents the highest operation efficiency, whereas Circular-Pie Menu delivers the lowest error rate; (4) Elliptic-Pie Menu occurs significant improvement of operation efficiency with the use of short items.
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Chang, YH., Hwang, T.K.P. (2011). Effects of Menu Types and Item Lengths on Operation Efficiency. In: Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theory, Methods, Tools and Practice. DUXU 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21708-1_43
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