Wavelet menus: a stacking metaphor for adapting marking menus to mobile devices

ABSTRACT

Exploration and navigation in multimedia data hierarchies (e.g., photos, music) are frequent tasks on mobile devices. However, visualization and interaction are impoverished due to the limited size of the screen and the lack of precise input devices. As a result, menus on mobile devices do not provide efficient navigation as compared to many innovative menu techniques proposed for Desktop platforms. In this paper, we present Wavelet, the adaptation of the Wave menu for the navigation in multimedia data on iPhone. Its layout, based on an inverted representation of the hierarchy, is particularly well adapted to mobile devices. Indeed, it guarantees that submenus are always displayed on the screen and it supports efficient navigation by providing previsualization of the submenus.

REFERENCES

• 1: Bailly, G., Lecolinet, E., and Nigay, L. 2007. Wave Menus: Improving the Novice Mode of Hierarchical Marking menus, INTERACT'07. Springer, 475--488.
• 2: Bailly, G., Lecolinet, E., and Nigay, L. 2008. Flower menus: a new type of marking menu with large menu breadth, within groups and efficient expert mode memorization. ACM AVI '08, 15--22.
• 3: Beaudouin-Lafon, M. 2004. Designing interaction, not interfaces. ACM AVI '04, 15--22.
• 4: Bederson, B. B. and Hollan, J. D. 1995. Pad++: a zoomable graphical interface system. ACM CHI'95, 23--24.
• 5: Huot, S., Lecolinet, E. 2007. ArchMenu et ThumbMenu: Contrôler son dispositif mobile "sur le pouce". ACM IHM'07.
• 6: Kurtenbach, G. and Buxton, W. 1994. User learning and performance with marking menus. ACM CHI '94, 258--264.
• 7: Parhi, P., Karlson, A., Bederson, B. 2006. Target Size Study for One-Handed Thumb Use on Small Touchscreen Devices. MobileHCI'06, 203--210
• 8: Rekimoto, J., Ishizawa, T., Schwesig, C., and Oba, H. 2003. PreSense: interaction techniques for finger sensing input devices. ACM UIST '03, 203--212.
• 9: Roudaut, A., Huot, S., and Lecolinet, E. 2008. TapTap and MagStick: improving one-handed target acquisition on small touch-screens. ACM AVI '08, 146--153.
• 10: Roudaut, A., Lecolinet, E., and Guiard, Y. 2009. MicroRolls: expanding touch-screen input vocabulary by distinguishing rolls vs. slides of the thumb. ACM CHI '09, 927--936.
• 11: Yatani, K., Partridge, K., Bern, M., Newman, M. W. 2008. Escape: a target selection technique using visually-cued gestures. ACM CHI'08, pp. 285--294
• 12: Zhai, S., Kristensson, P., Gong, P., Greiner, M., Peng, S. A., Liu, L. M., and Dunnigan, A. 2009. Shapewriter on the iPhone: from the laboratory to the real world. Extended Abstracts of CHI'09, 2667--2670.
• 13: Zhao, S. and Balakrishnan, R. 2004. Simple vs. compound mark hierarchical marking menus. ACM UIST '04, 33--42.
• 14: Zhao, S., Dragicevic, P., Chignell, M., Balakrishnan, R., and Baudisch, P. 2007. Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback. ACM CHI '07, 1395--1404.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Evaluation/methodology

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (GUI); Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.6 Methodology and Techniques
          Subjects: Interaction techniques

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
marking menus, menu techniques, mobile devices, wave menus