Fisheye Menus
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We introduce "fisheye menus" which apply traditional fisheye graphical
visualization techniques to linear menus. This provides for an efficient
mechanism to select items from long menus, which are becoming more common
as menus are used to select data items in, for example, e-commerce
applications. Fisheye menus dynamically change the size of menu items to
provide a focus area around the mouse pointer. This makes it possible to
present the entire menu on a single screen without requiring buttons,
scrollbars, or hierarchies.
A pilot study with 10 users compared user preference of fisheye menus with
traditional pull-down menus that use scrolling arrows, scrollbars, and
hierarchies. Users preferred the fisheye menus for browsing tasks, and
hierarchical menus for goal-directed tasks.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2000-31)
(Also cross-referenced as HCIL-TR-2000-12)