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Stacked Half-Pie menus: navigating nested menus on interactive tabletops

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Tobias Hesselmann,

Stefan Flöring,

Marwin SchmittAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '09: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Pages 173 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1145/1731903.1731936

Published: 23 November 2009 Publication History

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Hierarchical menus can be found in many of today's software applications. However, these menus are often optimized for mouse or keyboard interaction and their suitability for touch screen-based interactive tabletops is questionable. On touch based interfaces, screen occlusion by the user, menu item size and the usage of intuitive navigation paradigms are essential aspects that need to be considered. In this paper we present our approach: "Stacked Half-Pie menus" that allow visualization of an unlimited number of hierarchical menu items as well as interactive navigation and selection of these items by touch. Our evaluation shows a fairly high usability of touchable half-pie menus, making them an interesting alternative to other established menu types on interactive tabletops.

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Stacked Half-Pie menus: navigating nested menus on interactive tabletops
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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ITS '09: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

November 2009

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ISBN:9781605587332

DOI:10.1145/1731903

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SMART Technologies, Canada
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University of Bristol, UK
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University of Calgary, Canada
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Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
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University of Waterloo, Canada

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