Split menus: Effectively using selection frequency to organize menus
| dc.contributor.author | Sears, Andrew | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Shneiderman, Ben | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-31T21:00:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-05-31T21:00:55Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1993-06 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-10-15 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | When some items in a menu are selected more frequently than others, as is often the case, designers or individual users may be able to speed performance and improve satisfaction by placing several high-frequency items at the top of the menu. Design guidelines for split menus were developed and applied. Split menus were implemented and tested in two field studies and a controlled experiment. In the field study conditions performance times were reduced from 17 or 58% depending on the site and menus. In the controlled experiment split menus were significantly faster than alphabetic menus and yielded significantly higher subjective preferences. A possible resolution to the continuing debate among cognitive theorists about predicting menu selection times is offered. We conjecture and offer evidence that the logarithmic model applies to familiar (high-frequency) items and the linear model applies to unfamiliar (low-frequency) items. (Also cross-referenced as CAR-TR-649) ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 1, #1 (March 1994) 27-51 %I Human Computer Interaction Laboratory | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/386 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Tech Reports in Computer Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Computer Science Department Technical Reports | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-2997 | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CAR-TR-649 | en_US |
| dc.title | Split menus: Effectively using selection frequency to organize menus | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |