Bubble menu

Validation level: 5. CHI, UIST, CSCW and TOCHI paper publication

The Bubbling menus combine the bubble cursor technique with directional mouse-gesture techniques to facilitate the access of certain items in a menu, such as frequently selected items.

Publications
Copy Bibtex Tsandilas, T. and schraefel, m. c. Bubbling Menus: A Selective Mechanism for Accessing Hierarchical Drop-down Menus. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1195-1204, ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI '07 , 2007.
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Storyboard of Functions

Overview of bubbling menus. Bubble cursors are used to select blue(hot)items in an alternative view, activated through mouse-dragging gestures. Blue items are specified by either a manual or an automatic customization mechanism

Folder selection

Vertical Movement

Diagonal Movement

Release of Mouse Button

Highlights:

Ability to customize the hot menu.
Frequently switch between hot menu and static menu.

Limitations:

High error rate
New interaction with learning workload